-- For more than a century, Alsace was the most contested region in
western Europe, a battleground for ethnic and cultural identity in
an era of rampant nationalism. Harvey's compelling analysis of
working-class politics and nationality explains the successive
attempts of French and German authorities to impose one national
identity on the region and shows how workers responded by adopting
a cultural policy that reflected their own political and class
interests.
Harvey argues that the course of historical events along the
Rhine led Alsatians to identify finally with the French republican
state even though Alsace was culturally closer to Germany than to
France -- the victory of politics and class over culture and blood.
In addition to revealing the pragmatism of Alsatian workers, Harvey
integrates their identity into regional history to portray the
consecutive stages of the region's ongoing cultural definition. A
complex dialogue between ideology and experience shaped the
workers' successive embrace of French republicanism, German
socialist democracy, and Alsatian autonomism, frustrating both
French and German nationalists.
Based upon extensive archival research, Constructing Class and
Nationality in Alsace will be of vital interest to those concerned
with questions of collective identity, class, and political
culture, as well as to students and scholars of both French and
German history.
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