| Description |
1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Series |
Central and Eastern Europe ; volume 11 |
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Central and Eastern Europe (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 11.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Learning Years -- Biography -- Studies -- Harbingers of the Storm -- Chapter 2: War -- Annexation or Federation -- Colonial Geography -- The Right Book at the Right Time -- Chapter 3: Cards on the Table -- Preparatory Work -- Rome -- Paris -- Between Us Experts -- Chapter 4: Drawing Borders: Nations -- From a Border to a Nation -- "An arithmetical Fiction": National Statistics -- "Fantasy and Speculation": Surfaces and Points -- Chapter 5: Drawing Borders: Land -- Ethnicity and Culture -- Geology, Climate, Plant Life -- Geopolitics |
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Chapter 6: After the War, Before the War -- Geography sans Germany -- Slavic Congresses -- The New Normal -- Reconstruction -- Goodbyes -- Service -- List of Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- Index of Geographical Names |
| Summary |
Can geographers actually create their fatherlands? The story of the territorial reconstruction of East Central Europe in the wake of WWI gives an affirmative answer. The protagonists of this book were a cohort of young, talented and exceedingly ambitious people fascinated by the modernity of late 19th century German geographical sciences. During wartime they proved particularly successful in scholarship and in scientifically based national propaganda. Some of them succeeded in influencing the spatial idea of 'just borders' that allegedly corresponded best to geographical and ethnical realities. They offered ready-made solutions to questions of the self-determination of nations formulated by US President Wilson. But already during the Paris Peace Conference, geographers moved to concepts of a 'natural', 'biological' border, to ideas of the subjugation of entire ethnic groups. They now cherished visions of a demographic and geographical utopia of states that were ethnically homogeneous |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Geographers -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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Ethnology -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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Human geography -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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Boundaries.
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Ethnology.
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Geographers.
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Human geography.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Boundaries -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Europe.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783657708833 |
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3657708839 |
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