Peripheries at the Centre - Machteld Venken

Peripheries at the Centre

Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
280 Seiten
2021
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-967-9 (ISBN)
169,95 inkl. MwSt
Reveals how Prussia, and later the German Empire, used educational policy to promote national identity along its geographical margins. It shows how policymakers sought to cultivate ideal German students who, it was hoped, would help to usher in a new, peaceful era in European history while reinforcing their status as German citizens.
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.

Machteld Venken is Professor of Contemporary Transnational History at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History of the University of Luxembourg. She is the author of Straddling the Iron Curtain? Immigrants, Immigrant Organisations, War Memories (2011) and editor of The Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: Border-Making and Its Consequences (2020).

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations



Introduction



Chapter 1. Schools, Language and Children during the First World War

Chapter 2. A Framework of Comparison

Chapter 3. Making the Border

Chapter 4. Scaping the Border

Chapter 5. A Universal Childhood



Conclusion



Appendix: Belgian and Polish Governments and Ministers Responsible for Education



Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Studies in Contemporary European History
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 1-78920-967-6 / 1789209676
ISBN-13 978-1-78920-967-9 / 9781789209679
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