The Upper Silesian Industrial District
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4490089 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Hartshorne (0000-0002-5262-7564, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1934 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 423 |
| Publication date | 1934-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/208914 |
| OpenAlex | W2321698878 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
STRADDLING the low divide between the valleys of the Oder and the Vistula on the southern margin of the northern European plain is the important industrial district of Upper Silesia. The smaller part of this district, in former Russian Poland, was acquired in I919 by the reconstructed state of Poland. The remaining and larger part, formerly German or Austrian, constituted the crux of the Upper Silesian question, over which Germany and Poland struggled from I918 to 1922, first at Paris and later, before and after the plebiscite of I92I, by means of local armed forces. Had it not been for the coal, zinc, and steel of this small area, none of the countries concerned in the conflict would have devoted any great attention to the otherwise unimportant agricultural province-whether it should be left to Germany on the basis of its many centuries of separation from Poland or given to the latter country on the basis of its majority of Polish-speaking population. As the conflict came to no clear result, either in the plebiscite or in the fighting that followed it, and was particularly confused in the industrial district itself, the final determination made at Geneva in 1922 was a compromise cutting the prize of the conflict in two, giving the greater portion to Poland, the lesser portion to Germany. The district consequently now straddles the international boundary line even more markedly than before the war. The relation of the political boundaries, present and past, to geographic boundaries in this and the neighboring areas was the subject of a previous paper by the author.1 The aim of the present paper is to present a brief examination of the geography of this bitterly contested district.2 Political questions will be disregarded except as they have a direct bearing on the matters discussed
Archaeology · Compromise · Economic history · Geography · German · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · State (computer science · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Demography · History · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Urbanization and City Planning
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2020 (30) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |