Neither German nor Pole - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neither German nor Pole write by James Bjork. This book was released on 2009-12-21. Neither German nor Pole available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This is a fascinating local story with major implications for studies of nationalism and regional identities throughout Europe more generally." ---Dennis Sweeney, University of Alberta "James Bjork has produced a finely crafted, insightful, indeed, pathbreaking study of the interplay between religious and national identity in late nineteenth-century Central Europe." ---Anthony Steinhoff, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Neither German nor Pole examines how the inhabitants of one of Europe's most densely populated industrial districts managed to defy clear-cut national categorization, even in the heyday of nationalizing pressures at the turn of the twentieth century. As James E. Bjork argues, the "civic national" project of turning inhabitants of Upper Silesia into Germans and the "ethnic national" project of awakening them as Poles both enjoyed successes, but these often canceled one another out, exacerbating rather than eliminating doubts about people's national allegiances. In this deadlock, it was a different kind of identification---religion---that provided both the ideological framework and the social space for Upper Silesia to navigate between German and Polish orientations. A fine-grained, microhistorical study of how confessional politics and the daily rhythms of bilingual Roman Catholic religious practice subverted national identification, Neither German nor Pole moves beyond local history to address broad questions about the relationship between nationalism, religion, and modernity.
Germans to Poles
Germans to Poles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Germans to Poles write by Hugo Service. This book was released on 2013-07-11. Germans to Poles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the ways Poland dealt with the territories and peoples it gained from Germany after the Second World War.
Orphans Of Versailles
Orphans Of Versailles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orphans Of Versailles write by Richard Blanke. This book was released on 2014-07-15. Orphans Of Versailles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The lands Germany ceded to Poland after World War I included more than one million ethnic Germans for whom the change meant a sharp reversal of roles. The Polish government now confronted a German minority in a region where power relationships had been the other way around for more than a century. Orphans of Versailles examines the complex psychological and political situation of Germans consigned to Poland, their treatment by the Polish government and society, their diverse strategies for survival, their place in international relations, and the impact of National Socialism. Not a one-sided study of victimization, this book treats the contributions of both the Polish state and the German minority to the conflict that culminated in their mutual destruction. Based largely on research in European archives, it sheds new light on a key aspect of German-Polish relations, one that was long overshadowed by concern over the German revanchist threat and the hostility that subsequently dominated the German-Polish relationship. Thanks to the new political situation in central Europe, however, this topic can finally be addressed evenhandedly.
Germans and Poles in the Middle Ages
Germans and Poles in the Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Germans and Poles in the Middle Ages write by . This book was released on 2021-08-16. Germans and Poles in the Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines mutual ethnic and national perceptions and stereotypes in the Middle Ages by analysing a range of historical sources, with a particular focus on the mutual history of Germany and Poland.
Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland
Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland write by Brendan Karch. This book was released on 2018-10-04. Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A century-long struggle to make a borderland population into loyal Germans or Poles drove nationalist activists to radical measures.
