Peripheries at the centre : borderland schooling in interwar Europe

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Label

Peripheries at the centre : borderland schooling in interwar Europe

Title remainder

borderland schooling in interwar Europe

Statement of responsibility

Machteld Venken

Creator

• Venken, Machteld

Subject

• Education -- Europe -- History
• Europe -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Borderlands -- Europe -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Schools -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
• Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Europe -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

"Following the Treaty of Versailles, European nation-states were faced with the challenge of instilling national loyalty in their new borderlands, in which fellow citizens often differed dramatically from one another along religious, linguistic, cultural, or ethnic lines. Peripheries at the Centre compares the experiences of schooling in Upper Silesia in Poland and Eupen, Sankt Vith, and Malmedy in Belgium - border regions detached from the German Empire after the First World War. It demonstrates how newly configured countries envisioned borderland schools and language learning as tools for realizing the imagined peaceful Europe that underscored the political geography of the interwar period"--

Member of

• Studies in contemporary European history, 27

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Provided by publisher

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Studies in contemporary European history

Series volume

volume 27