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Historiographical Approaches to Medieval Colonization of East Central Europe
Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this narrow peninsula between the ocean and the bay became some of New York City's worst slums. A historian who grew up in the community and his wife, a social worker, together present an illuminating account of this transformation, exploring issues of race, class, and social policy and offering a significant revision of the larger story of New York City's development. In particular, the authors qualify some of the negative assessments of Robert Moses, suggesting that the "Power Broker" attempted for many positive initiatives for Rockaway. Based on extensive archival research and hundreds of hours of interviews with residents, urban specialists, and government officials past and present, Between Ocean and City is a clear-eyed and harrowing story of this largely African American community's struggles and resiliency in the face of grinding poverty, urban renewal schemes gone wrong, and a forced ghettoization by the sea.
Die Verjagten
Das Drama des Jahrhunderts - Flucht, Deportation, Heimatverlust Ob aus ökonomischen, religiösen oder politischen Gründen – das Verjagtwerden wurde im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts zu einer Massenerfahrung und zu einem Drama, das bis heute in vielen Familien nachwirkt. Abermillionen von Vertriebenen, Flüchtlingen und Entwurzelten wurden im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts von der Geschichte überrollt. Ein längst überfälliges Buch, das nicht aufrechnet, sondern aufklärt. Das 20. Jahrhundert wird auch als Zeitalter der Vertreibungen bezeichnet. Durch Europa strömten bereits um den Ersten Weltkrieg Wellen von Menschen, die vor ethnischen Verfolgungen flohen. Am Ende des Jahrhunderts wurden ...
German Scholars and Ethnic Cleansing, 1919-1945
An analysis of the historical, geographic, ethnographical & ethno-political ideas behind the ethnic clenasing & looting of cultural treasures that hallmarked the Third Reich, this collection describes key figures amongst the German intelligentsia who supported the Nazi regime.
The Germans and the East
The editors present a collection of 23 historical papers exploring relationships between "the Germans" (necessarily adopting different senses of the term for different periods or different topics) and their immediate neighbors to the East. The eras discussed range from the Middle Ages to European integration. Examples of specific topics addressed include the Teutonic order in the development of the political culture of Northeastern Europe during the Middle ages, Teutonic-Balt relations in the chronicles of the Baltic Crusades, the emergence of Polenliteratur in 18th century Germany, German colonization in the Banat and Transylvania in the 18th century, changing meanings of "German" in Habsburg Central Europe, German military occupation and culture on the Eastern Front in Word War I, interwar Poland and the problem of Polish-speaking Germans, the implementation of Nazi racial policy in occupied Poland, Austro-Czechoslovak relations and the post-war expulsion of the Germans, and narratives of the lost German East in Cold War West Germany.
Slavs in the Middle Ages Between Idea and Reality
Presenting the history of the Slavs in the Middle Ages in a new light, this study shows how the 'Slavs' were treated as a cultural construct and as such politically instrumentalized, and describes the real structures behind the phenomenon.
‘The Slippery Memory of Men’
The Slippery Memory of Men analyzes how during the early fourteenth century a discourse of eternal enmity was created between the Teutonic Knights and the rulers of Poland as these former allies contended over the disputed region of Pomerania.
Belonging to the Nation
In 1939 Nazis identified Polish citizens of German origin and granted them legal status as ethnic Germans of the Reich. After the war Poland did just the opposite: searched out Germans of Polish origin and offered them Polish citizenship. John Kulczycki’s account underscores the processes of inclusion and exclusion that mold national communities.
The Text and the World
In this study of an exceptionally interesting primary source - the 'Henryków Book' - and the local and regional world which it reflected and helped shape, Piotr Górecki mines the text for the information it provides about the social, political, religious and literary contexts of medieval Europe.
The German Minority in Interwar Poland
Explores what happened when Germans from three different empires were forced to live together in Poland after the First World War.
