Ethnicizing Europe (eBook)

Hate and Violence After Versailles

Éva Kovács, Raul Cârstocea, Gábor Egry (Herausgeber)

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2025
320 Seiten
Purdue University Press (Verlag)
978-1-62671-122-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Ethnicizing Europe focuses on the dynamics of interethnic violence in Europe between the two world wars. The new international system that was enshrined by the Versailles peace treaties after World War I did not bring stability to East-Central Europe. Rather, it resulted in a host of conditions like self-determination, international oversight, revolutionary political ideas, and democratic processes, which eventually gave new meaning to already established conflicts, as well as igniting new conflicts in the region. This book opens with a discussion of the theoretical scholarship on ethnicity before proceeding to specific case studies investigating the different ways in which ethnicity was enacted and contested during a period of European transformation, focusing mostly on ethnically heterogeneous locales. Rather than concentrating on either political violence or ethnonationalism, this collection brings these two literatures together to show how ethnicization, the legal concepts of citizenship, and violence were intertwined in post-Versailles Europe, not only shaping the period between the wars, but also the Europe we know today. The book concludes with an afterword by Tara Zahra, which expands this perspective to the wider transatlantic region.

Publication of this title is made possible with support from the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

Ethnicizing Europe?, by Éva Kovács, Raul Cârstocea, and Gábor Egry

PART 1: LAWS AND LEGAL CONCEPTS OF CITIZENSHIP

1 Demarcating the National Family: French Nation-Building, “Authentic” Alsatians, German Immigrants, and Alsace, 1914–1920, by Devlin M. Scofield

2 Citizens without a State: “Nationality,” International Law, and Jewish Emigration to the United States,1918–1921, by Zachary Mazur

3 “May it be as soon as possible!”: Polish Governments’ Plans Toward Jewish Mass Emigration, by Zofia Trębacz

PART 2: LANGUAGE AS ETHNOPOLITICAL PRACTICE

4 Language Fight: Conflicts over Ukrainian/Ruthenian Minority Schools in Eastern Galicia in the Second Polish Republic, by Elisabeth Haid-Lener

5 Looking for a Viennese Swabian village: Landsmannschaft Migrant Activism and Its Limits in Interwar Vienna, by Pauli Aro

6 Controlled Youth Emancipation: Hungarian Germans as Part of the Group Formation Process in the Interwar Period, by Zsolt Vitári

PART 3: RACIALIZATION AND RADICALIZATION OF ETHNICITY

7 Living in disturbed times: The Ethnopolitical and Social Consequences of the War and of the New State Order in the Bohemian Lands, 1918–1923, by Pavel Kladiwa and Andrea Pokludová

8 Historical Debate About the Shared Roots and Divergent Causes of the Green, Red, and White Terrors, by Béla Bodó

9 Polish and Ukrainian Propaganda Concerning the War for Eastern Galicia, by Jagoda Wierzejska

AFTERWORD

Chutes and Ladders: Racialization in Habsburg Central Europe After 1918, by Tara Zahra

Index

Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.7.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Central European Studies
• Verlagsort: West Lafayette
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Citizenship • Civil Society • Education • Ethnic conflicts • ethnic hierarchies • ethnicization • Language Politics • Local Conflicts • Localities • Nationalism • Political violence • Racism • Regional conflicts • state borders • versailles peace
• ISBN-10: 1-62671-122-4 / 1626711224
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62671-122-8 / 9781626711228