Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

Uprooted : how Breslau became Wrocław during the century of expulsions / / Gregor Thum ; translated from the German by Tom Lampert and Allison Brown ; translation of Polish sources by W. Martin and Jasper Tilbury



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Thum Gregor <1967-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Uprooted : how Breslau became Wrocław during the century of expulsions / / Gregor Thum ; translated from the German by Tom Lampert and Allison Brown ; translation of Polish sources by W. Martin and Jasper Tilbury Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011
Edizione: Core Textbook
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (544 p.)
Disciplina: 943.8/52
Soggetto topico: World War, 1939-1945 - Influence
World War, 1939-1945 - Deportations from Poland
Forced migration - Poland - Wrocław - History - 20th century
Social change - Poland - Wrocław - History - 20th century
City and town life - Poland - Wrocław - History - 20th century
Collective memory - Poland - Wrocław - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: Wrocław (Poland) History 20th century
Oder-Neisse Line (Germany and Poland)
Wrocław (Poland) Social conditions 20th century
Soggetto non controllato: 1940s
Allied powers
Allied victory
Allies
Breslau
Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Europe
Gdansk
General Conservator
German occupation
German territories
German territory
Germans
GermanАolish border
Gnienzo
Jan Zachwatowicz
Joanna Konopinka
Karol Maleczynski
Krakow
London Foreign Office
Poland
Poles
Polish leaders
Polish names
Polish national cult
Polish people
Polish residents
Polish settlers
Polish state
Polish takeover
Polonization
Potsdam Conference
Poznan
Second World War
Soviet Union
Soviet dismantling
Szczecin
Warsaw
Washington State Department
Wrocalw
Wroclaw
age-old Polish
archival materials
better future
communist government
cultural life
discrimination
ethnic Germans
ethnic minorities
forced migration
forced migrations
foreignness
historians
historic preservation
historical names
homogenous nation
integration
local history
mass migrations
modern society
national border
nonintervention
patriotic appeals
political map
political power
population exchange
postwar Poland
postwar challenges
postwar history
reconstruction
renaming operation
self-reassurance
settlement boundaries
settlers
tradition
transportation connections
war
wartime destruction
western territories
Altri autori: LampertTom  
BrownAllison  
MartinW  
TilburyJasper  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: A note on names -- Prologue: A dual tragedy -- The destruction of Breslau -- Poland's shift to the west -- pt. 1. The postwar era : rupture and survival -- Takeover -- Moving people -- A loss of substance -- Reconstruction -- pt. 2. The politics of the past : the city's transformation -- The impermanence syndrome -- Propaganda as necessity -- Mythicizing history -- Cleansing memory -- The pillars of an imagined tradition -- Old town, new contexts -- pt. 3. Prospects -- Amputated memory and the turning point of 1989 -- Appendix 1: List of abbrevations -- Appendix 2: Translations of Polish institutions -- Appendix 3: List of Polish and German street names.
Sommario/riassunto: With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants--almost all of them ethnic Germans--were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers from all parts of prewar Poland. Uprooted examines the long-term psychological and cultural consequences of forced migration in twentieth-century Europe through the experiences of Wroclaw's Polish inhabitants. In this pioneering work, Gregor Thum tells the story of how the city's new Polish settlers found themselves in a place that was not only unfamiliar to them but outright repellent given Wroclaw's Prussian-German appearance and the enormous scope of wartime destruction. The immediate consequences were an unstable society, an extremely high crime rate, rapid dilapidation of the building stock, and economic stagnation. This changed only after the city's authorities and a new intellectual elite provided Wroclaw with a Polish founding myth and reshaped the city's appearance to fit the postwar legend that it was an age-old Polish city. Thum also shows how the end of the Cold War and Poland's democratization triggered a public debate about Wroclaw's "amputated memory." Rediscovering the German past, Wroclaw's Poles reinvented their city for the second time since World War II. Uprooted traces the complex historical process by which Wroclaw's new inhabitants revitalized their city and made it their own.
Titolo autorizzato: Uprooted  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-16383-7
9786613163837
1-4008-3996-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825764903321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui