Recovered Territory - A German-Polish Conflict over Land and Culture, 1919-1989 (Hardcover)

Upper Silesia, one of Central Europe's most important industrial borderlands, was at the center of heated conflict between Germany and Poland and experienced annexations and border re-drawings in 1922, 1939, and 1945. This transnational history examines these episodes of territorial re-nationalization and their cumulative impacts on the region and nations involved, as well as their use by the Nazi and postwar communist regimes to legitimate violent ethnic cleansing. In their interaction with-and mutual influence on-one another, political and cultural actors from both nations developed a transnational culture of territorial rivalry. Architecture, spaces of memory, films, museums, folklore, language policy, mass rallies, and archeological digs were some of the means they used to give the borderland a "German"/"Polish" face. Representative of the wider politics of twentieth-century Europe, the situation in Upper Silesia played a critical role in the making of history's most violent and uprooting eras, 1939-1950.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2015
Authors:	Peter Polak-Springer
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	302
ISBN-13:	978-1-78238-887-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Embargos & sanctions Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	1-78238-887-7
Barcode:	9781782388876

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