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This volume provides an historical overview of the relationship
between Germany, German speakers, and successive waves of German
colonists with their eastern neighbors over the period from the
Middle Ages to the present. The collection of essays by 28 leading
experts includes the most recent scholarship together with fresh
perspectives on the subject. The problems and issues raised in this
volume come as a result of different understandings of ""German""
and ""Germany"" from the Germanic tribes and German
""stem-duchies"" of the Middle Ages to the highly decentralized and
multi-ethnic Holy Roman Empire of late medieval and early modern
times and the German Confederation of the 1815-1866 period to the
various forms of the German state from 1871 to the present. The
relationship of German-speakers to their eastern non-German
speaking neighbors, as well as that of ""Germany"" both to those
neighbors and to German-speakers living beyond the borders of the
modern German state are covered. In addition, some attention is
given to the German perception of the ""East"" during this
unfolding relationship. The Germans and the East is divided into
five sections. The first section covers the medieval period which
saw the first German colonial expansion eastward. The second
section, devoted to the early modern period, reviews the role of
German speakers in the development policies of enlightened
absolutism. The third section looks at the problem during the age
of emerging nationalism in the ""long"" nineteenth century from
1789 to 1914. The fourth and longest section covers the era of the
two World Wars, including their aftermaths, which saw the expulsion
of German-speakers from Eastern Europe. The final section addresses
the relationship of Germany and Austria and their eastern neighbors
from the Cold War to the new era of European integration.
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