Peripheries at the Centre by Machteld Venken
Reveals how Prussia, and later the German Empire, used educational policy to promote national identity along its geographical margins. It shows how policymakers sought to cultivate ideal German students who, it was hoped, would help to usher in a new, peaceful era in European history while reinforcing their status as German citizens.-
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Children, Families, and States
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A State of Peace in Europe
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Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond
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Visions of the End of the Cold War in Europe, 1945-1990
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Between Utopia and Disillusionment
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The Long Aftermath
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Memory and Change in Europe
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Shaping the Transnational Sphere
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Tailoring Truth
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Migration, Memory, and Diversity
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Ambassadors of Realpolitik
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Peace at All Costs
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At the Edge of the Wall
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Resisting Persecution
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Conflicted Memories
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Playing Politics with History
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Alsace to the Alsatians?
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Experience and Memory
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Reconciliation Road
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Wartime Captivity in the 20th Century
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From Eastern Bloc to European Union
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Whose Memory? Which Future?
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A European Memory?
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A More Democratic Community
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The Burden of German History
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The Inverted Mirror
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Social Policy in the Smaller European Union States
“Peripheries at the Centre shows how the international border settlements after the First World War worked (or did not work) on the groundWe learn how pupils, their parents, and their principals maneuvered through changing legal and administrative regimes, and how those regimes were often riven by contradictions and failures in their application. Venken’s thought-provoking theses should interest scholars concerned with how international and national dynamics shape the everyday experiences, subjectivities, and scope of action for children in a variety of contested areas.” • Katherine Lebow, Oxford University
“Peripheries at the Centre is a notable intervention in social history and an innovative contribution to current historiographical debates. It offers a deep comparison of German peripheral regions after 1918 in Poland and Belgium, and it sets up a theoretically sophisticated European analysis of the limits and inadequacies of nationally framed reform pedagogy, giving voice to children’s modernity.” • Steven Seegel, University of Northern Colorado
Machteld Venken is Professor of Contemporary Transnational History at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History of the University of Luxembourg. She is the author of Straddling the Iron Curtain? Immigrants, Immigrant Organisations, War Memories (2011) and editor of The Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: Border-Making and Its Consequences (2020).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781789209679 |
| ISBN 10 | 1789209676 |
| Title | Peripheries at the Centre |
| Author | Machteld Venken |
| Series | Studies In Contemporary European History |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2021-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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