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Bibliografie novin a časopisu na morave a ve slezsku v letech 1918-1945
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ISBN: 8070510005 Year: 1989 Publisher: Brno Státní vedecká knihovna

Zur literatur und Kultur Schlesiens in der Frühen Neuzeit aus interdisziplinärer Sicht
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ISBN: 8322917058 Volume: 1968 Publisher: Wroclaw : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego.

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Aufklärung in Schlesien im europäischen Spannungsfeld : Traditionen-Diskurse-Wirkungen
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ISBN: 8322918410 8322913427 9788322918418 Year: 1996 Volume: 2122 Publisher: Wroclaw : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego,

Die "verse=schwangere" Elysie : zum Anteil der Frauen an der literarischen Kultur Schlesiens im 17. Jahrhundert
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ISBN: 8322914938 Year: 1997 Volume: 1882 Publisher: Wroclaw : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego,


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Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching : 1783-1829 : ein Beitrag zur Begründung der schlesischen Kulturgeschichte
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ISBN: 8322916248 Year: 1997 Volume: 1978 Publisher: Wroclaw : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego,

The politics of ethnicity in Central Europe
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ISBN: 0312227906 0333731719 Year: 2000 Publisher: Basingstoke Macmillan


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Nation and loyalty in a German-Polish borderland
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ISBN: 9781108463980 9781108487108 9781108560955 1108463983 1108487106 1108560954 1108604897 1108610641 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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In the bloody twentieth-century battles over Central Europe's borderlands, Upper Silesians stand out for resisting pressure to become loyal Germans or Poles. This work traces nationalist activists' efforts to divide Upper Silesian communities, which were bound by their Catholic faith and bilingualism, into two 'imagined' nations. These efforts, which ranged from the 1848 Revolution to the aftermath of the Second World War, are charted by Brendan Karch through the local newspapers, youth and leisure groups, neighborhood parades, priestly sermons, and electoral outcomes. As locals weathered increasing political turmoil and violence in the German-Polish contest over their homeland, many crafted a national ambiguity that allowed them to pass as members of either nation. In prioritizing family, homeland, village, class, or other social ties above national belonging, a majority of Upper Silesians adopted an instrumental stance towards nationalism. The result was a feedback loop between national radicalism and national skepticism.

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