Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 1880-1950: Modernity, Violence and (Be) Longing in Upper Silesia (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe)
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (994 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1138567590 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 252 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorTomasz 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.
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.
As such Upper Silesia, which was partitioned and re-partitioned between 1922 and 1945, and subjected to Czechization, Germanization, Polonization, forced emigration, expulsion and extermination, illustrates the limits of nation-building projects and nation-building narratives imposed from outside. 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.. This asked the inhabitants of Europe’s second largest industrial region the deceptively straightforward question of whether they preferred to be Germans or Poles, but spectacularly failed to c