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»Alles, was Tara Zahra anfasst, wird zu Gold.« Samuel Moyn Wer heute - nach Brexit, Trump und Covid - auf den Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts zurückblickt, der könnte unsere Gegenwart für die zweite Staffel einer Serie halten. Denn schon während der ersten Welle der Globalisierung bildeten sich gefährliche Unterströmungen. Migration und wirtschaftliche Verflechtung lösten Ressentiments und Existenzängste aus. Mit dem Ersten Weltkrieg und der...

Before the First World War, enthusiasm for a borderless world reached its height. International travel, migration, trade and progressive projects on matters ranging from women's rights to world peace reached a crescendo. Yet in the same breath, an undercurrent of reaction was growing, one that would surge ahead with the outbreak of war and its aftermath. In Against the World, a sweeping and ambitious work of history, acclaimed scholar Tara Zah...

Before the First World War, enthusiasm for a borderless world reached its height. International travel, migration, trade, and progressive projects on matters ranging from women's rights to world peace reached a crescendo. Yet in the same breath, an undercurrent of reaction was growing, one that would surge ahead with the outbreak of war and its aftermath. In Against the World, a sweeping and ambitious work of history, acclaimed scholar Tara Za...

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Nel secondo dopoguerra un numero senza precedenti di minori era separato dalla famiglia in Europa. Si trattava di un'autentica emergenza umanitaria. C'erano bambini nei campi di concentramento, in orfanotrofi o campi per profughi, alcuni senza casa, altri lontani dalla patria in quanto adottati o sfollati, altri ancora reclamati dal loro paese o coinvolti nelle deportazioni. Molti erano ebrei, sopravvissuti all'Olocausto o salvi perché nascost...

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Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the "land of the free" and yet more than a third returned home again. In a ground-breaking study, Tara Zahra explores the deeper story of this movement of people. As villages emptied, some blamed traffickers in human labour. Others saw opportunity: to seed co...

Zahra shows how nationalists in the Bohemian Lands worked to forge political cultures in which children belonged more rightfully to the national collective than to their parents.

World War II tore apart an unprecedented number of families. This is the heartbreaking story of the humanitarian organizations, governments, and refugees that tried to rehabilitate Europe's lost children from the trauma of war, and in the process shaped Cold War ideology, ideals of democracy and human rights, and modern visions of the family.

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Tara Zahra is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago.