Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 1880-1950: Modernity, Violence and (Be) Longing in Upper Silesia

by Anna Novikov-Almagor, James Bjork, Timothy Wilson

Book Overview

In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, Upper Silesia was the site of the largest formal exercise in self-determination in European history, the 1921 Plebiscite. This asked the inhabitants of Europe's second largest industrial region the deceptively straightforward question of whether they preferred to be Germans or Poles, but spectacularly failed to clarify their national identity, demonstrating instead the strength of transnational,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415835968
• ISBN13: 9780415835961
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"