| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 277 pages) : illustrations |
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Heritage, culture and identity |
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Heritage, culture, and identity.
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| Contents |
City of an Old Europe : Nationalism and Binationalism in Strasbourg/Strassburg -- Prologue: Strasbourg, betwixt and between -- Alsace-Lorraine : the binational conundrum -- War & Remembrance -- Postwar : the "Thirty Glorious Years" -- The cosmopolitan Eurocrats and their hosts -- City of a Provisional Europe : Transnational Strasbourg? -- The EU's clever children : Graduates of the Erasmus program -- The invisible immigrants -- "Because you were there" : Shards of the Colonial Past -- "We are here" -- from Turkey, and from the world entire -- Who is a Strasburger? -- Envoi: The liveable city, in the youngest voice of all -- Appendix: The Questionnaire |
| Summary |
Based on in-depth, lively interviews with 80 men and 80 women ranging from 101 to 20 years, and from all over the world (France, Germany, Alsace-Lorraine, Portugal, Italy, ex-Yugoslavia, Albania, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey, Cameroon, and Afghanistan amongst other countries), the author draws out of these powerful testimonies all sorts of compelling insights into issues of identity, race, nationality, culture, politics, heritage and representation, giving a unique and valuable view of what it means (and has meant over the past century) to be a European |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Interviews -- France -- Strasbourg
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Nationalism -- France -- Strasbourg
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Ethnicity -- France -- Strasbourg
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National characteristics, European.
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Europeans.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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Europeans
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Ethnicity
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Interviews
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Manners and customs
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National characteristics, European
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Nationalism
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Social conditions
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Strasbourg (France) -- Social life and customs
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Strasbourg (France) -- Social conditions
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Strasbourg (France) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117172
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Strasbourg (France) -- Biography
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| Subject |
France -- Strasbourg
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781409443711 |
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140944371X |
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9781409443728 |
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1409443728 |
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1280689382 |
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9781280689383 |
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