Frontiers of Violence: Conflict and Identity in Ulster and Upper Silesia, 1918-1922

by Timothy Wilson

In the years after the First World War both Ulster and Upper Silesia saw violent conflicts over self-determination. The violence in Upper Silesia was more intense both in the numbers killed and in the forms it took. Acts of violation such as rape or mutilation were noticeably more common in Upper Silesia than in Ulster.

Examining the nature of communal boundaries, Timothy Wilson explains the profound contrasts in these experiences of plebeian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199583714
• ISBN13: 9780199583713
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"