The Annexation of Eupen-Malmedy

Becoming Belgian, 1919–1929

Vincent O'Connell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

316 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-95870-2 (ISBN)

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This book examines the history of Belgium’s annexation of the former German territories of Eupen and Malmedy during the interwar period. Focusing on Herman Baltia’s transitory regime and Belgium’s ambivalence about the fate of its new territories, the book charts the strained relations between Baltia’s regime and Brussels, the regime’s path to dissolution, and the failed retrocession of the territory to Germany. Through close analysis of primary source material, Vincent O’Connell investigates the efforts of Baltia’s provisional government to assimilate the region’s inhabitants into Belgium. The ultimate failure of that assimilation, he argues, may be traced back not only to incessant pro-German agitation, but to flawed Belgian policy from the outset. Framed in the context of a post-Versailles Europe, the book offers an interesting case study not only of the ebbs and flows of international politics across the frontier zones of Europe in the interwar years, but of how populations react to changes in national sovereignty.

Vincent O’Connell is an independent scholar from Cork, Ireland. He has lectured in modern European history and public history at the University of Limerick, and his research on Eupen-Malmedy in the interwar period has appeared in the Journal of Belgian History and the International Journal of Regional and Local History.

1. Introduction.- 2. On the Threshold of Transition: Eupen-Malmedy in 1919: Between Occupation and Annexation.- 3. 'Sounding Them Out': Herman Baltia and the Installation of the Eupen-Malmedy Government.- 4. Farce and Tragedy in Eupen-Malmedy: The Public Expression of Opinion and Its Discontents.- 5. 'Making Good Belgians': Political Incorporation and National Assimilation, 1920–1925.- 6. 'Road to Abandonment': Belgium's Approach to Eupen-Malmedy, 1925–1929.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	2 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 316 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
Schlagworte	annexation of German territory • Belgicization • Eupen and Malmedy • Eupen-Malmedy government • failed assimilation • Herman Baltia • interwar diplomacy • Interwar Period • postwar Europe • retrocession of Eupen-Malmedy • Versailles Treaty
ISBN-10	1-349-95870-0 / 1349958700
ISBN-13	978-1-349-95870-2 / 9781349958702
Zustand	Neuware