In 1918, the end of the First World War triggered the return of
Alsace and Lorraine to France after almost fifty years of
annexation into the German Empire. Enthusiastic crowds in Paris and
Alsace celebrated the return of the 'lost provinces,' but return
proved far more difficult than expected. Over the following two
decades, politicians, administrators, industrialists, cultural
elites, and others grappled with the question of how to make the
region French again. Differences of opinion emerged, and
reintegration rapidly descended into a multi-faceted struggle as
voices at the Parisian centre, the Alsatian periphery, and outside
France's borders offered their views on how to introduce French
institutions and systems into its lost borderland. Throughout these
discussions, the border itself shaped the process of reintegration,
by generating contact and tensions between populations on the two
sides of the boundary line, and by shaping expectations of what it
meant to be French and Alsatian. Borderland is the first
comprehensive account of the return of Alsace to France which
treats the border as a driver of change. It draws upon national,
regional, and local archives to follow the difficult process of
Alsace's reintegration into French society, culture, political and
economic systems, and legislative and administrative institutions.
It connects the microhistory of the region with the 'macro' levels
of national policy, international relations, and transnational
networks, and with the cross-border flows of ideas, goods, people,
and cultural products that shaped daily life in Alsace as its
population grappled with the meaning of return to France. In
revealing the multiple voices who contributed to the region's
reintegration, it underlines the ways in which regional populations
and cross-border interactions have forged modern nations.
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