Neither German Nor Pole
Catholicism and National Indifference in a Central European Borderland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9738122 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T David Curp (Ohio University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue | 515 |
| Pages | 1029-1031 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-26 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/ceq182 |
| OpenAlex | W2105943560 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Are all politics, even nationalist politics, local? James Bjork has written an important study on a singular place, Upper Silesia, at what should have been a turning-point in that region's history: the period from the aftermath of the Kulturkampf to the Plebiscite of 1921 which partitioned Upper Silesia between Weimar Germany and the reborn Polish Republic. Yet, rather like A.J.P. Taylor's mid-nineteenth-century Germany, Upper Silesia reached a nationalist turning-point, and then failed to turn. In the introduction, Bjork identifies how stubborn is the assumption of the inevitability of nationalist politics. Even when it is accepted that peoples and the states intertwined with nationalist politics are imagined communities, viable alternatives in organising social and political life seem unimaginable. Bjork argues that, in Upper Silesia, Catholic ideals, institutions and religious élites represented a non-national milieu whose resilience in maintaining multi-national communities illustrates the deeper contingencies of nationalism's place in state- and nation-building projects
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Economic history · German · Nationalism · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Turning point · Weimar Republic · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law
The role of the Protestant legacy in shaping Lower Silesian cultural heritage as exemplified by the refuge church in Borek Strzeliński (Großburg)
The role of the Protestant legacy in shaping Lower Silesian cultural heritage as exemplified by the refuge church in Borek Strzeliński (Großburg)
Religiosity, Nationalism, and Anti-Jewish Politics in Palestine and Poland
Between Local and National
Analyzing nationalized clothing
A family affair? Post-imperial Estonian Orthodoxy and its relationship with the Russian Mother Church, 1917–23
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |