Border Regimes in Twentieth Century Europe

ISBN-13: 9781032280790 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 184 str.

P?ter Bencsik

Opis

This book offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the history of passports, border surveillance, border crossing, and other elements of European border regimes in the twentieth century.

Spis treści

Introduction / Chapter 1 Theoretical background / Chapter 2 The emergence of the western and eastern model / Chapter 3 The period of the two World Wars / Chapter 4 Cold War tendencies / Chapter 5 Border regimes of East Central Europe, 1945–1989 / Conclusions / Sources and bibliography

O autorze

Péter Bencsik is Associate Professor at the University of Szeged, researching border regimes and territorialisation in East Central Europe, Hungarian–Czechoslovak relations, and history of the communist bloc. He is author of New borders as local economic possibility? The case of post-1920 Hungary (2020).