Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 1880-1950 (eBook, ePUB)

Modernity, Violence and (Be) Longing in Upper Silesia
Redaktion: Kamusella, Tomasz; Novikov, Anna; Wilson, Timothy; Bjork, James

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, Upper Silesia was the site of the largest formal exercise in self-determination in European history, the 1921 Plebiscite. This book explores a range of topics related to nationality issues in Upper Silesia, putting forward the results of extensive new research. It highlights the flaws at the heart of attempts to shape Europe as homogenously national polities and compares the fate of Upper Silesia with the many other European regions where similar problems occurred.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317279662
• Artikelnr.: 44896696

Autorenporträt

Tomasz Kamusella is a lecturer at the University of St Andrews, UK. James Bjork is a senior lecturer at King's College London, UK. Timothy Wilson is a lecturer at the University of St Andrews, UK. Anna Novikov is a research fellow at the Cologne Centre for Central and Eastern Europe, University of Cologne, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Between the Non-National, the National and (Post-National)
Europeanness
1. Upper Silesia in Modern Central Europe: On the Significance of the
Non-National in the Age of Nations
2. Fatal Violence in Upper Silesia, 1918-1922
3. 'Scoundrels' and Desperate Mothers: Gendering German and Polish
Propaganda in the Upper Silesian Plebiscite, 1919-1921
4. Bilingual Publics and Imagined Communities: The Upper Silesian
Plebiscite of 1921
5. Creating a Citizen: Politics and the Education System in the
Post-Plebiscite Silesian Voivodeship
6. National Indifference and National Radicalism in Weimar Upper Silesia
7. A 'Volksdeutsche Resistance Movement?' Local Responses to Nazi Policies
Towards the 'Nationally Indifferent' in Eastern Upper Silesia, 1939-1945
8. Upper Silesia in the age of the ethnically homogenous nation-state,
1945-9
9. Writing Identity: The Upper Silesian Plebiscite and Uprisings in
Historiography and Collective Memories