Table of Contents

Each chapter ends with a Conclusion. List of Maps and Figures About the Author Acknowledgments
Series Introduction: Connecting the Past and Present Introduction Chapter 1. Reformation, Refugees, and the Creation of Europe The Creation of Christendom The Collapse of Christendom and the Age of Religious Wars The Creation of Europe Chapter 2. Colonialism, Refugees, and the Invention of America The Invention of America European Refugees in the Americas African Refugees in the Americas American Refugees in the Americas Chapter 3. Nation-States and the Refugee Crises of the Great War The Invention of Nation-States Multiethnic Empires during the Rise of Nation-States The Refugee Crises of World War I Refugees Crises after World War I Chapter 4. Self-Determination, Decolonization, and Asia's Postwar Refugee Crises The Emergence of Nationalisms in Colonial Palestine Refugee Crisis in Israel/Palestine The Emergence of Nationalisms in Colonial India Refugee Crisis in India/Pakistan Chapter 5. The Many Africas and Refugee Crises in Algeria, Uganda, and the Great Lakes Decolonization and the Refugee Crises of the Algerian War Decolonization, Africanization, and the Expulsion of Uganda's Asians Racialized Politics and Refugee Crises around Africa's Great Lakes Conclusion Index

About the Author

Jesse Spohnholz is Professor of History and Director of the Roots of Contemporary Issues program at Washington State University.

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