German Balkan Entangled Histories In The Twentieth Century

Author : Christopher A. Molnar,Mirna Zakic
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822987918

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German-Balkan Entangled Histories in the Twentieth Century by Christopher A. Molnar,Mirna Zakic Pdf

This volume brings together a diverse group of scholars from North America and Europe to explore the history and memory of Germany’s fateful push for power in the Balkans during the era of the two world wars and the long postwar period. Each chapter focuses on one or more of four interrelated themes: war, empire, (forced) migration, and memory. The first section, “War and Empire in the Balkans,” explores Germany’s quest for empire in Southeast Europe during the first half of the century, a goal that was pursued by economic and military means. The book’s second section, “Aftershocks and Memories of War,” focuses on entangled German-Balkan histories that were shaped by, or a direct legacy of, Germany’s exceptionally destructive push for power in Southeast Europe during World War II. German-Balkan Entangled Histories in the Twentieth Century expands and enriches the neglected topic of Germany’s continued entanglements with the Balkans in the era of the world wars, the Cold War, and today.

Author : Roumen Dontchev Daskalov,Diana Mishkova,Tchavdar Marinov,Alexander Vezenkov
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004337824

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Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume Four by Roumen Dontchev Daskalov,Diana Mishkova,Tchavdar Marinov,Alexander Vezenkov Pdf

The essays in this volume address theoretical and methodological issues of Balkan or Southeast European regional studies—questions of scholarly concepts, definitions, and approaches but also the extra-scholarly, ideological, political, and geopolitical motivations that underpin them.

Author : Eduard Mühle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015059984529

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Germany and the European East in the Twentieth Century by Eduard Mühle Pdf

This work looks at the complicated relationship between Germany and the European East during the short twentieth century. It looks at the social, cultural and political contexts during the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich and the Federal Republic. Please note that images or diagrams have been excluded from this text due to copyright restrictions.

Author : Konrad H. Jarausch,Thomas Lindenberger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857453600

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Conflicted Memories by Konrad H. Jarausch,Thomas Lindenberger Pdf

Despite the growing interest in general European history, the European dimension is surprisingly absent from the writing of contemporary history. In most countries, the historiography on the 20th century continues to be dominated by national perspectives. Although there is cross-national work on specific topics such as occupation or resistance, transnational conceptions and narratives of contemporary European history have yet to be worked out. This volume focuses on the development of a shared conception of recent European history that will be required as an underpinning for further economic and political integration so as to make lasting cooperation on the old continent possible. It tries to overcome the traditional national framing that ironically persists just at a time when organized efforts to transform Europe from an object of debate to an actual subject have some chance of succeeding in making it into a polity in its own right.

Author : Rachel O'Sullivan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350377257

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Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule by Rachel O'Sullivan Pdf

This book examines Nazi Germany's expansion, population management and establishment of a racially stratified society within the Reichsgaue (Reich Districts) of Wartheland and Danzig-West Prussia in annexed Poland (1939-1945) through a colonial lens. The topic of the Holocaust has thus far dominated the scholarly debate on the relevance of colonialism for our understanding of the Nazi regime. However, as opposed to solely concentrating on violence to investigate whether the Holocaust can be located within wider colonial frameworks, Rachel O'Sullivan utilizes a broader approach by investigating other aspects, such as discourses and fantasies related to expansion, settlement, 'civilising missions' and Germanisation, which were also intrinsic to Nazi Germany's rule in Poland. The resettlement of the ethnic Germans-individuals of German descent who lived in Eastern Europe until the outbreak of the Second World War-forms a main focal point for this study's analysis and investigation of colonial comparisons. The ethnic German resettlement in the Reichsgaue laid the foundations for the establishment and enforcement of German society and culture, while simultaneously intensifying the efforts to control Poles and remove Jews. Through this case study, O'Sullivan explores Nazi Germany's dual usage of inclusionary policies, which attempted to culturally and linguistically integrate ethnic Germans and certain Poles into German society, and the contrasting exclusionary policies, which sought to rid annexed Poland of 'undesirable' population groups through segregation, deportation and murder. The book compares these policies - and the tactics used to implement them - to colonial and settler colonial methods of assimilation, subjugation and violence.

Author : Lewis Bernstein Namier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : OCLC:1089600949

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Facing East by Lewis Bernstein Namier Pdf

Author : Jochen Böhler,Włodzimierz Borodziej,Joachim von Puttkamer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000538045

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The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century by Jochen Böhler,Włodzimierz Borodziej,Joachim von Puttkamer Pdf

Violence analyzes both the violence exerted on the societies of Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century by belligerent powers and authoritarian and/or totalitarian regimes and armed conflicts between ethnic, social and national groups, as well as the interaction between these two phenomena. Throughout the twentieth century, Central and Eastern Europe was hit particularly hard by war, violence and repression, with armed conflicts in the Balkans at the start and end of the period and two world wars in between. In the shadow of these full-scale wars, ethnic, social and national conflicts were intensified, found new forms and were violently played out. The interwar period witnessed the emergence of authoritarian states who enforced their claim to power through continued violence against political opponents, stigmatized ethnic, national and social groups, and were themselves fought with subversive or terrorist techniques. This volume focuses specifically on physical violence: war and civil war, ethnic cleansing, systematic starvation policies, deportations and expulsions, forced labour and prison camps, persecution by state security – such as intensive surveillance, which had an enormous impact on the lives of those it affected – and other forms of government oppression and militant resistance. Geographically, it considers the western regions of Belarus and Ukraine as sites of extreme violence that had a noticeable impact on neighbouring Central and Eastern European countries as well. The concluding volume in a four-volume set on Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century, it is the go-to resource for those interested in violence in this complex region.

Author : Lewis Bernstein Namier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:17899744

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Facing East by Lewis Bernstein Namier Pdf

Author : Roumen Daskalov,Alexander Vezenkov
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004290365

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Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume Three by Roumen Daskalov,Alexander Vezenkov Pdf

'Entangled Balkans III' deals with historical legacies in the Balkans and the way they were appropriated by the modern Balkan national historiographies; also with disputes that arose in the course of “nationalizing’ a shared past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004250765

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Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume One by Anonim Pdf

The authors in this volume seek to treat the modern history of the Balkans from a transnational and relational perspective in terms of shared and connected, as well as entangled, histories, transfers and crossings.

Author : Kris Manjapra
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674727465

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Age of Entanglement by Kris Manjapra Pdf

Age of Entanglement explores patterns of connection linking German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the years after the Second World War. Kris Manjapra traces the intersecting ideas and careers of a diverse collection of individuals from South Asia and Central Europe who shared ideas, formed networks, and studied one another’s worlds. Moving beyond well-rehearsed critiques of colonialism towards a new critical approach, this study recasts modern intellectual history in terms of the knotted intellectual itineraries of seeming strangers. Collaborations in the sciences, arts, and humanities produced extraordinary meetings of German and Indian minds. Meghnad Saha met Albert Einstein, Stella Kramrisch brought the Bauhaus to Calcutta, and Girindrasekhar Bose began a correspondence with Sigmund Freud. Rabindranath Tagore traveled to Germany to recruit scholars for a new Indian university, and the actor Himanshu Rai hired director Franz Osten to help establish movie studios in Bombay. These interactions, Manjapra argues, evinced shared responses to the cultural and political hegemony of the British empire. Germans and Indians hoped to find in one another the tools needed to disrupt an Anglocentric world order. As Manjapra demonstrates, transnational intellectual encounters are not inherently progressive. From Orientalism and Aryanism to socialism and scientism, German–Indian entanglements were neither necessarily liberal nor conventionally cosmopolitan, often characterized as much by manipulation as by cooperation. Age of Entanglement underscores the connections between German and Indian intellectual history, revealing the characteristics of a global age when the distance separating Europe and Asia seemed, temporarily, to disappear.

Author : Richard C. Hall
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 186189810X

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The Modern Balkans by Richard C. Hall Pdf

In The Modern Balkans, historian Richard C. Hall gives a complete account of the historical events that have shaped the Balkan region of Southeastern Europe. Originally separated from the rest of Europe by culture, politics, and economics, the Balkans have slowly been integrating into Western Europe since the nineteenth century. But this process of economic and political development, following the Western European model, has been far from smooth in the Balkans. As Hall explains, it has often been marked by violence and destruction, the result of many wars and rebellions. Though Soviet power imposed a nearly fifty-year peace in the region, the collapse of the Soviet Union renewed conflict that continued through the end of the twentieth century. Hall concentrates here on the significant political and economic events that have had the greatest impact on the role of the Balkans in Europe; in particular, he examines the development of national states in the nineteenth century, the influence of the two world wars, and the collapse of Yugoslavia. This clear and concise history of the Balkan Peninsula will appeal to readers and scholars interested in European history and the Balkans’ unique role in it.

Author : Roumen Daskalov,Diana Mishkova
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004261914

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Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume Two by Roumen Daskalov,Diana Mishkova Pdf

Modern Balkan history has traditionally been studied by national historians in terms of separate national histories taking place within bounded state territories. The authors in this volume take a different approach. They all seek to treat the modern history of the region from a transnational and relational perspective in terms of shared and connected, as well as entangled, histories, transfers and crossings. This goes along with an interest in the way ideas, institutions and techniques were selected, transferred and adapted to Balkan conditions and how they interacted with those conditions, resulting in mélanges and hybridization. The volume also invites reflection on the interacting entities in the very process of their creation and consecutive transformations rather than taking them as givens. Contributors include: Diana Mishkova, Alexander Vezenkov, Constantin Iordachi, Roumen Daskalov, Tchavdar Marinov, Blagovest Njagulov.

Author : Katrin Boeckh,Sabine Rutar
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785337758

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The Wars of Yesterday by Katrin Boeckh,Sabine Rutar Pdf

Though persistently overshadowed by the Great War in historical memory, the two Balkan conflicts of 1912–1913 were among the most consequential of the early twentieth century. By pitting the states of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro against a diminished Ottoman Empire—and subsequently against one another—they anticipated many of the horrors of twentieth-century warfare even as they produced the tense regional politics that helped spark World War I. Bringing together an international group of scholars, this volume applies the social and cultural insights of the “new military history” to revisit this critical episode with a central focus on the experiences of both combatants and civilians during wartime.

Author : James M. Robertson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228021889

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Mediating Spaces by James M. Robertson Pdf

Throughout the twentieth century in the lands of Yugoslavia, socialists embarked on multiple projects of supranational unification. Sensitive to the vulnerability of small nations in a world of great powers, they pursued political sovereignty, economic development, and cultural modernization at a scale between the national and the global – from regional strategies of Balkan federalism to continental visions of European integration to the internationalist ambitions of the Non-Aligned Movement. In Mediating Spaces James Robertson offers an intellectual history of the diverse supranational politics of Yugoslav socialism, beginning with its birth in the 1870s and concluding with its violent collapse in the 1990s. Showcasing the ways in which socialists in Southeast Europe confronted the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of globalization, the book frames the evolution of supranational politics as a response to the shifting dynamics of global economic and geopolitical competition. Arguing that literature was a crucial vehicle for imagining new communities beyond the nation, Robertson analyzes the manuscripts, journals, and personal correspondence of the literary left to excavate the cultural geographies that animated Yugoslav socialism and its supranational horizons. The book ultimately illuminates the innovative strategies of cultural development used by socialist writers to challenge global asymmetries of power and prestige. Mediating Spaces reveals the full significance of supranationalism in the history of socialist thought, recovering a key concern for an era of renewed geopolitical contestation in Eastern Europe.