In the Border’s Shadow

Reimagining Urban Spaces in Strasbourg, 1918–39

Bibliographic Data

ID10076037
AuthorsAlison Carrol (0000-0002-8491-2546, Brunel University, UK, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume48
Issue4
Pages666-687
Publication date2013-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0022009413493941
OpenAlexW2058744628
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited18

This article explores controversies over festivities and monument construction in interwar Strasbourg. After the return of Alsace to France in 1918, these battles became emblematic of broader debates about the region’s place in France and relationship with Germany, as different groups and individuals in Paris and Strasbourg used them to promote their views of the reintegration of Alsace into France. In these debates, the dominant understanding of Strasbourg treated the city as the limits of French territory, and a frontier with Germany. But this idea was challenged by ideas of the city as the heart of a transnational, cross border community, or a regional capital. These ideas co-existed, but were contested and were not articulated simultaneously. Through a discussion of the use of these ideas in debates over urban spaces in Strasbourg, this article traces how attitudes towards borders change over time, and vary according to the political context

Archaeology · Capital (architecture · Capital city · Context (archaeology · Economic geography · Economic history · Economy · Frontier · Geography · Political science · Politics · Shadow (psychology · Sociology · European history and politics · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law

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