Gerard Daniel Cohen is Associate Professor of History, Rice University

The prime purpose of this excellent book is not to provide a more inclusive and integrative social history but to do something far more ambitious: namely, to write an international history that places the DP issue in the context of the emerging Cold War, and as a factor in international justice and political retribution, the emergence of the human rights movement, the rise of United Nations humanitarianism, the governance of international migration, and the advent of Jewish statehood .[It] makes clear is how important that period was in shaping contemporary views of refugees and their plight.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Last MillionCh 1. The Battle of the Refugees: DPs and the Making of the Cold War West Ch 2. "Who is a Refugee?": From 'Victors' Justice' to AnticommunismCh 3. Care and Maintenance: The New Face of International HumanitarianismCh 4. Displaced Persons in the "Human Rights Revolution"Ch 5. Surplus Manpower, Surplus PopulationCh 6. Extraterritorial Jews: Refugee Humanitarianism and the Advent of Jewish Statehood Epilogue: The Golden Age of European Refugees, 1945-1960NotesSources and Further ReadingIndex

Gerard Daniel Cohen is Associate Professor of History, Rice University

The prime purpose of this excellent book is not to provide a more inclusive and integrative social history but to do something far more ambitious: namely, to write an international history that places the DP issue in the context of the emerging Cold War, and as a factor in international justice and political retribution, the emergence of the human rights movement, the rise of United Nations humanitarianism, the governance of international migration, and the advent of Jewish statehood .[It] makes clear is how important that period was in shaping contemporary views of refugees and their plight.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Last MillionCh 1. The Battle of the Refugees: DPs and the Making of the Cold War West Ch 2. "Who is a Refugee?": From 'Victors' Justice' to AnticommunismCh 3. Care and Maintenance: The New Face of International HumanitarianismCh 4. Displaced Persons in the "Human Rights Revolution"Ch 5. Surplus Manpower, Surplus PopulationCh 6. Extraterritorial Jews: Refugee Humanitarianism and the Advent of Jewish Statehood Epilogue: The Golden Age of European Refugees, 1945-1960NotesSources and Further ReadingIndex