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 | : | 4.18 (525 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1138567590 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 252 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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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.
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 book explores a range of topics related to nationality issues in Upper Silesia, putting forward the results of extensive new research. 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. In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, Upper Silesia
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.