Neither German nor Pole
Title | Neither German nor Pole PDF eBook |
Author | James Bjork |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2009-12-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0472025295 |
"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.
Orphans Of Versailles
Title | Orphans Of Versailles PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Blanke |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2014-07-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0813161398 |
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
Title | Germans and Poles in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 459 |
Release | 2021-08-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 900446655X |
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.
Poles in Kaiser's Army on the Front of the First World War
Title | Poles in Kaiser's Army on the Front of the First World War PDF eBook |
Author | Ryszard Kaczmarek |
Publisher | Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2020-04-28 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783631814840 |
The book deals with the fate of Poles from Poznań, Upper Silesia, Masuria, and Eastern Pomerania, who served in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. In regiments recruited on the Polish soil, it was common to use the Polish language, and from 1917 Poles deserted to the Polish Army in France
Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland
Title | Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland PDF eBook |
Author | Brendan Karch |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2018-10-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108487106 |
A century-long struggle to make a borderland population into loyal Germans or Poles drove nationalist activists to radical measures.
The Poles in Germany and the Germans in Poland
Title | The Poles in Germany and the Germans in Poland PDF eBook |
Author | Jerzy Kurnatowski |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Germans |
ISBN |
Germans to Poles
Title | Germans to Poles PDF eBook |
Author | Hugo Service |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 389 |
Release | 2013-07-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107671485 |
This book examines the ways Poland dealt with the territories and peoples it gained from Germany after the Second World War.