Author: Winson Chu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107008301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Explores what happened when Germans from three different empires were forced to live together in Poland after the First World War.
The German Minority in Interwar Poland
Author: Winson Chu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107008301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Explores what happened when Germans from three different empires were forced to live together in Poland after the First World War.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107008301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Explores what happened when Germans from three different empires were forced to live together in Poland after the First World War.
Social and Political History of the Jews in Poland, 1919-1939
Author: Joseph Marcus
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9789027932396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Social and Political History of the Jews in Poland 1919-1939".
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9789027932396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Social and Political History of the Jews in Poland 1919-1939".
Identity Strategies of Stateless Ethnic Minority Groups in Contemporary Poland
Author: Ewa Michna
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030415759
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
This book provides a unique description of the identity strategies of stateless ethnic minorities in Poland. It describes and analyses the identity politics carried out by these groups, aimed at obtaining recognition of a separate status from the Polish state (a dominant group) in the symbolic and legal realms. On the one hand, comparative analysis of the activity undertaken by Lemkos, Polish Tatars, Roma, Kashubians, Karaims and Silesians will allow us to present the specifics of each of the communities, resulting from the special nature of their ethnicity. On the other hand, it will show some typical strategies for stateless groups in the field of identity and ethnicity. Critical factors here are processes such as building ethnic borders, dealing with a non-privileged position, striving to achieve recognition for the status quo of a particular identity or politicization of ethnicity. The subjects are mostly indigenous groups, and the lack of legitimacy of emancipation in their own nation-state can determine their status as an ‘in-between’ in the context of ethnic relations in Poland. In the analysis undertaken in the book of the activity of the ethnic groups there are three main contexts: intragroup, state policy and the global discourse of the rights of minorities. They determine the choice of identity strategy and adopted policy of identity. Not without significance is also the historical context, especially the political transformation in Poland after 1989, when Polish state policy towards ethnic minorities changed fundamentally - moving from the mono-national ideology of a socialist state to a pluralistic model of a democratic state. Gathering diverse examples in one volume will allow the reader to become familiar with the complex topic of ethnic relations in the world today, and especially in Central Europe, which is still in the process of change.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030415759
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
This book provides a unique description of the identity strategies of stateless ethnic minorities in Poland. It describes and analyses the identity politics carried out by these groups, aimed at obtaining recognition of a separate status from the Polish state (a dominant group) in the symbolic and legal realms. On the one hand, comparative analysis of the activity undertaken by Lemkos, Polish Tatars, Roma, Kashubians, Karaims and Silesians will allow us to present the specifics of each of the communities, resulting from the special nature of their ethnicity. On the other hand, it will show some typical strategies for stateless groups in the field of identity and ethnicity. Critical factors here are processes such as building ethnic borders, dealing with a non-privileged position, striving to achieve recognition for the status quo of a particular identity or politicization of ethnicity. The subjects are mostly indigenous groups, and the lack of legitimacy of emancipation in their own nation-state can determine their status as an ‘in-between’ in the context of ethnic relations in Poland. In the analysis undertaken in the book of the activity of the ethnic groups there are three main contexts: intragroup, state policy and the global discourse of the rights of minorities. They determine the choice of identity strategy and adopted policy of identity. Not without significance is also the historical context, especially the political transformation in Poland after 1989, when Polish state policy towards ethnic minorities changed fundamentally - moving from the mono-national ideology of a socialist state to a pluralistic model of a democratic state. Gathering diverse examples in one volume will allow the reader to become familiar with the complex topic of ethnic relations in the world today, and especially in Central Europe, which is still in the process of change.
Poland's Holocaust
Author: Tadeusz Piotrowski
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786429135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
With the end of World War I, a new Republic of Poland emerged on the maps of Europe, made up of some of the territory from the first Polish Republic, including Wolyn and Wilno, and significant parts of Belarus, Upper Silesia, Eastern Galicia, and East Prussia. The resulting conglomeration of ethnic groups left many substantial minorities wanting independence. The approach of World War II provided the minorities' leaders a new opportunity in their nationalist movements, and many sided with one or the other of Poland's two enemies--the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany--in hopes of achieving their goals at the expense of Poland and its people. Based on primary and secondary sources in numerous languages (including Polish, German, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Russian and English), this work examines the roles of the ethnic minorities in the collapse of the Republic and in the atrocities that occurred under the occupying troops. The Polish government's response to mounting ethnic tensions in the prewar era and its conduct of the war effort are also examined.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786429135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
With the end of World War I, a new Republic of Poland emerged on the maps of Europe, made up of some of the territory from the first Polish Republic, including Wolyn and Wilno, and significant parts of Belarus, Upper Silesia, Eastern Galicia, and East Prussia. The resulting conglomeration of ethnic groups left many substantial minorities wanting independence. The approach of World War II provided the minorities' leaders a new opportunity in their nationalist movements, and many sided with one or the other of Poland's two enemies--the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany--in hopes of achieving their goals at the expense of Poland and its people. Based on primary and secondary sources in numerous languages (including Polish, German, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Russian and English), this work examines the roles of the ethnic minorities in the collapse of the Republic and in the atrocities that occurred under the occupying troops. The Polish government's response to mounting ethnic tensions in the prewar era and its conduct of the war effort are also examined.
Germans, Poles, and Jews
Author: William W. Hagen
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226312422
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226312422
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Cultural Identities and Ethnic Minorities in Europe
Author: David Turton
Publisher: Universidad de Deusto
ISBN: 8498305004
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
In the different projects of the Thematic Network on Humanitaian Development Studies, there is an underlyin note which is both intended and spontaneously recorded after its activities. We refer to the European dimension and the idea of sharing approaches and perspectives into the analysis on a number of working themes. The initial intentios is, therfore, to create common language and shared points of reference where variety could be read and further understood.
Publisher: Universidad de Deusto
ISBN: 8498305004
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
In the different projects of the Thematic Network on Humanitaian Development Studies, there is an underlyin note which is both intended and spontaneously recorded after its activities. We refer to the European dimension and the idea of sharing approaches and perspectives into the analysis on a number of working themes. The initial intentios is, therfore, to create common language and shared points of reference where variety could be read and further understood.
American Warsaw
Author: Dominic A. Pacyga
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022681534X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Pacyga chronicles more than a century of immigration, and later emigration back to Poland, showing how the community has continually redefined what it means to be Polish in Chicago.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022681534X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Pacyga chronicles more than a century of immigration, and later emigration back to Poland, showing how the community has continually redefined what it means to be Polish in Chicago.
Poland and Her National Minorities, 1919-39
Author: Stephan M. Horak
Publisher: New York, Vantage P
ISBN:
Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher: New York, Vantage P
ISBN:
Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Ethnic Diversity in Europe
Author: David Turton
Publisher: Universidad de Deusto
ISBN: 8498305020
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Ethnic diversity is on increase in Europe; at the same time, there is evidence of growing anti-immigrant feeling in some countries, such as Spain (especially in the Southern provinces). In order to build a politically united and democratic Europe, the accommodation of ethnic diversity and the integration of ethnic minorities are both key challenges. This book tries to explain ethnic problems in Europe.
Publisher: Universidad de Deusto
ISBN: 8498305020
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Ethnic diversity is on increase in Europe; at the same time, there is evidence of growing anti-immigrant feeling in some countries, such as Spain (especially in the Southern provinces). In order to build a politically united and democratic Europe, the accommodation of ethnic diversity and the integration of ethnic minorities are both key challenges. This book tries to explain ethnic problems in Europe.
Books Are Weapons
Author: Siobahn Doucette
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822983192
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Much attention has been given to the role of intellectual dissidents, labor, and religion in the historic overthrow of communism in Poland during the 1980s. Books Are Weapons presents the first English-language study of that which connected them—the press. Siobhan Doucette provides a comprehensive examination of the Polish opposition’s independent, often underground, press and its crucial role in the events leading to the historic Round Table and popular elections of 1989. While other studies have emphasized the role that the Solidarity movement played in bringing about civil society in 1980-1981, Doucette instead argues that the independent press was the essential binding element in the establishment of a true civil society during the mid- to late 1980s. Based on a thorough investigation of underground publications and interviews with important activists of the period from 1976 to 1989, Doucette shows how the independent press, rooted in the long Polish tradition of well-organized resistance to foreign occupation, reshaped this tradition to embrace nonviolent civil resistance while creating a network that evolved from a small group of dissidents into a broad opposition movement with cross-national ties and millions of sympathizers. It was the galvanizing force in the resistance to communism and the rebuilding of Poland’s democratic society.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822983192
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Much attention has been given to the role of intellectual dissidents, labor, and religion in the historic overthrow of communism in Poland during the 1980s. Books Are Weapons presents the first English-language study of that which connected them—the press. Siobhan Doucette provides a comprehensive examination of the Polish opposition’s independent, often underground, press and its crucial role in the events leading to the historic Round Table and popular elections of 1989. While other studies have emphasized the role that the Solidarity movement played in bringing about civil society in 1980-1981, Doucette instead argues that the independent press was the essential binding element in the establishment of a true civil society during the mid- to late 1980s. Based on a thorough investigation of underground publications and interviews with important activists of the period from 1976 to 1989, Doucette shows how the independent press, rooted in the long Polish tradition of well-organized resistance to foreign occupation, reshaped this tradition to embrace nonviolent civil resistance while creating a network that evolved from a small group of dissidents into a broad opposition movement with cross-national ties and millions of sympathizers. It was the galvanizing force in the resistance to communism and the rebuilding of Poland’s democratic society.