Brendan Karch

Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland

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Produktbeschreibung

A century-long struggle to make a borderland population into loyal Germans or Poles drove nationalist activists to radical measures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 657g
• ISBN-13: 9781108487108
• ISBN-10: 1108487106
• Artikelnr.: 52152912

Autorenporträt

Brendan Karch is Assistant Professor of History at Louisiana State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The battle before: Catholicism and the making of upper Silesians, 1848-1890
2. Nationalism's debut: imagining a Polish community, 1890-1914
3. Breakdown: World War I and the upper Silesian plebiscite, 1914-1921
4. The Weimar gap: democracy and nationalism, 1922-1933
5. Reprieve: Jews between Germany, Poland, and the League of Nations
6. The instrumental Volksgemeinschaft: making 'loyal' Germans, 1933-1944
7. The postwar ultimatum: making 'loyal' Poles after 1945
Epilogue.