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Changing Places: Society, Culture, and Territory in the Saxon-Bohemian Borderlands, 1870-1946 (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)
Caitlin Murdock
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Description for Changing Places: Society, Culture, and Territory in the Saxon-Bohemian Borderlands, 1870-1946 (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)
Hardcover. Uses archival and published sources from Germany and the Czech Republic to tell a truly transnational story of how state, regional, and local historical actors created, and eventually destroyed, a cross-border region. Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 280 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVKC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
This is an intriguing study of a fluid cross-border area over several decades. ""Changing Places"" is a transnational history of the birth, life, and death of a modern borderland and of frontier peoples' changing relationships to nations, states, and territorial belonging. The cross-border region between Germany and Habsburg, Austria - and after 1918 between Germany and Czechoslovakia - became an international showcase for modern state building, nationalist agitation, and local pragmatism after World War I, in the 1930s, and again after 1945. Caitlin Murdock uses wide-ranging archival and published sources from Germany and the Czech Republic to tell a truly ... Read more
This is an intriguing study of a fluid cross-border area over several decades. ""Changing Places"" is a transnational history of the birth, life, and death of a modern borderland and of frontier peoples' changing relationships to nations, states, and territorial belonging. The cross-border region between Germany and Habsburg, Austria - and after 1918 between Germany and Czechoslovakia - became an international showcase for modern state building, nationalist agitation, and local pragmatism after World War I, in the 1930s, and again after 1945. Caitlin Murdock uses wide-ranging archival and published sources from Germany and the Czech Republic to tell a truly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472117222
SKU
V9780472117222
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About Caitlin Murdock
Caitlin Murdock is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach.
Reviews for Changing Places: Society, Culture, and Territory in the Saxon-Bohemian Borderlands, 1870-1946 (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)
"Changing Places is an interesting meditation on the varying identities and rights claimed by residents of borderlands, the limits placed on the capacities of nation-states to police their borders and enforce national identities, and the persistence of such contact zones in the past and present. It is an extremely well-written and engaging study, and an absolute pleasure to read." - ... Read more