Author: Graham Seton HutchisonPublisher:
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Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Silesia Revisited, 1929
Author: Graham Seton HutchisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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The Lost German East
Author: Andrew DemshukPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107379741
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
A fifth of West Germany's post-1945 population consisted of ethnic German refugees expelled from Eastern Europe, a quarter of whom came from Silesia. As the richest territory lost inside Germany's interwar borders, Silesia was a leading objective for territorial revisionists, many of whom were themselves expellees. The Lost German East examines how and why millions of Silesian expellees came to terms with the loss of their homeland. Applying theories of memory and nostalgia, as well as recent studies on ethnic cleansing, Andrew Demshuk shows how, over time, most expellees came to recognize that the idealized world they mourned no longer existed. Revising the traditional view that most of those expelled sought a restoration of prewar borders so they could return to the east, Demshuk offers a new answer to the question of why, after decades of violent upheaval, peace and stability took root in West Germany during the tense early years of the Cold War.
Historicizing Modernists
Author: Matthew FeldmanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350215066
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Focussing upon both canonical figures such as Woolf, Eliot, Pound, and Stein and emergent themes such as Christian modernism, intermedial modernism, queer Harlem Renaissance, this volume brings together previously unseen materials, from various archives, to bear upon cutting-edge interpretation of modernism. It provides an overview of approaches to modernism via the employment of various types of primary source material: correspondence, manuscripts and drafts, memoirs and production notes, reading notes and marginalia, and all manner of useful contextualising sources like news reports or judicial records. While having much to say to literary criticism more broadly, this volume is closely focused upon key modernist figures and emergent themes in light of the discipline's 'archival turn' – termed in a unifying introduction 'achivalism'. An essential ingredient separating the above, recent tendency from a much older and better-established new historicism, in modernist studies at least, is that 'the literary canon' remains an important starting point. Whereas new historicism 'is interested in history as represented and recorded in written documents' and tends toward a 'parallel study of literature and non-literary texts', archival criticism tends toward recognised, oftentimes canonical or critically-lauded, writers, presented in Part 1. Sidestepping the vicissitudes of canon formation, manuscript scholars tend to gravitate toward leading modernist authors: James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett. Part of the reason is obvious: known authors frequently leave behind sizeable literary estates, which are then acquired by research centres. A second section then applies the same empirical methodology to key or emergent themes in the study of modernism, including queer modernism; spatial modernism; little magazines (and online finding aids structuring them); and the role of faith and/or emotions in the construction of 'modernism' as we know it.
Bulletin of the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Author: British Library of Political and Economic SciencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
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The Drama of Upper Silesia
Author: William John RosePublisher:
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Category : Silesia (Poland : Voivodeship)
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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The Colliery Guardian and Journal of the Coal and Iron Trades
Author: Frontiers of Violence
Author: Tim WilsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199583714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In the years after the First World War both Ulster and Upper Silesia saw violent conflicts over self-determination. Examining the nature of communal boundaries, such as religion and language, Timothy Wilson explains the profound contrasts in these experiences of plebeian violence.
Recent Geographical Literature, Maps and Photographs
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
Author: Harry Elmer BarnesPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787200477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
A collection of nine revisionist essays edited by American historian and writer Harry Elmer Barnes, originally published in 1953, this intriguing volume offers a critical survey and appraisal of the development and implementation of American foreign policy of during the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt; the FDR Administration’s deliberate manipulation of events in Europe and Asia to bring the US—against the wishes of the majority of its citizens—into World War II; and its resultant aftermath in the course of world history.
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