Peripheries at the Centre: Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe

Following the Treaty of Versailles, European nation-states were faced with the challenge of instilling national loyalty in their new borderlands, in which fellow citizens often differed dramatically from one another along religious, linguistic, cultural, or ethnic lines. Peripheries at the Centre co...

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Main Author: Machteld Venken (-)
Corporate Author: the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg funder (funder)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berghahn Books 2021
Edition:1st ed
Series:Studies in Contemporary European History Series
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Summary:Following the Treaty of Versailles, European nation-states were faced with the challenge of instilling national loyalty in their new borderlands, in which fellow citizens often differed dramatically from one another along religious, linguistic, cultural, or ethnic lines. Peripheries at the Centre compares the experiences of schooling in Upper Silesia in Poland and Eupen, Sankt Vith, and Malmedy in Belgium - border regions detached from the German Empire after the First World War. It demonstrates how newly configured countries envisioned borderland schools and language learning as tools for realizing the imagined peaceful Europe that underscored the political geography of the interwar period.
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
ISBN:9781789209693