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Drawing Fatherlands

Geographers and Borders in Inter-war Europe

Maciej Górny (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 255 Seiten

2022 | 2022
Brill | Schöningh (Verlag)
978-3-506-70883-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Maciej Górny is Deputy Director of the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences and a professor thereof. His research interests are the entangled history of East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th century, the history of historiography, discourses on race and the First World War.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	Central and Eastern Europe ; 11
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
Schlagworte	Borders • Cartography • Ethnic Mapping • Ethnic Minorities • Paris • peace conference • scientific experts • Spatial history • territorial dispute • World War 1
ISBN-10	3-506-70883-X / 350670883X
ISBN-13	978-3-506-70883-0 / 9783506708830
Zustand	Neuware