1st Edition
Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 1880-1950 Modernity, Violence and (Be) Longing in Upper Silesia
Introduction: Between the Non-National, the National and (Post-National) Europeanness
1. Upper Silesia in Modern Central Europe: On the Significance of the Non-National in the Age of Nations Tomasz Kamusella
2. Fatal Violence in Upper Silesia, 1918-1922 Timothy Wilson
3. ‘Scoundrels’ and Desperate Mothers: Gendering German and Polish Propaganda in the Upper Silesian Plebiscite, 1919-1921 Allison Rodriguez
4. Bilingual Publics and Imagined Communities: The Upper Silesian Plebiscite of 1921 James Bjork
5. Creating a Citizen: Politics and the Education System in the Post-Plebiscite Silesian Voivodeship Anna Novikov
6. National Indifference and National Radicalism in Weimar Upper Silesia Brendan Karch
7. A ‘Volksdeutsche Resistance Movement?’ Local Responses to Nazi Policies Towards the ‘Nationally Indifferent’ in Eastern Upper Silesia, 1939-1945 Peter Polak-Springer
8. Upper Silesia in the age of the ethnically homogenous nation-state, 1945-9 Hugo Service
9. Writing Identity: The Upper Silesian Plebiscite and Uprisings in Historiography and Collective Memories
Biography
Tomasz Kamusella is a lecturer at the University of St Andrews, UK.
James Bjork is a senior lecturer at King’s College London, UK.
Timothy Wilson is a lecturer at the University of St Andrews, UK.
Anna Novikov is a research fellow at the Cologne Centre for Central and Eastern Europe, University of Cologne, Germany.
'Benefitting from deep research, essays in this collection introduce students and researchers alike to stakes surrounding national indifference in a key borderland. In conversation with each other, they will hopefully encourage continued scholarly discussion that transcends nationally partisan polemics and facilitates historical understanding about how human beings have adopted identities that transcend national categories'
Andrew Demshuk, American University, Slavic Review 2018.
