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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Silesia"”.
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Britain and Upper Silesia 1919 - 1922
… political and military involvement in Upper Silesia between 1919 and 1922.It establishes the background to the Paris Peace Conference's decision to conduct a plebiscite in this important industrial region on the new Polish-German frontier. It also demonstrates how the region's long-standing …
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Urban Governance and the Conduct of Civic Violence in Silesia, Poland, and Prussia, 1300 – 1500
… of violent conflicts in the urban communes of Silesia, Poland, and Prussia and their significance for civic governance during the later middle ages. The thesis compares various examples of civic conflicts from across the three regions to consider (1) what variables led individuals and groups …
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GIS analysis of the mid-nineteenth century emigration of the Old Lutherans from Prussia
… of Brandenburg, Pomerania, Posen, Saxony, and Silesia. More emigrants came from Pomerania overall and during every time period except 1849-54. The areas with the most emigrants were north central Pomerania, northern Brandenburg, southeast Brandenburg, and western Silesia. Emigrant destinations …
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The composition of noble gas and co2 in the european subcontinental lithospheric mantle
… and geodynamic conditions were selected: Lower Silesia (Eger Rift) in SW Poland, Persani Mts. (Transylvania) in Romania, Eifel and Siebengebirge in Germany. The main outcomes of this thesis are: - The chemistry of FI in mantle xenoliths from the studied areas revealed is dominated by CO2, with …
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La risposta delle parasequenze carbonatiche alle variazioni relative del livello del mare sulla base di indicatori climatici
… (Kiel, Germania) e presso l’Università della Silesia in Katowice (Polonia), per ricostruzioni paleoambientali. Nel tentativo di ricostruire una curva paleoclimatica alla scala di 104 anni, è stato scelto come indicatore il δ18O, ampiamente utilizzato in studi paleoclimatici. Tali analisi sono …
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Masculinity and Politics in Daniel Casper von Lohenstein's Dramatic Works
… realities facing seventeenth-century Silesia. Silesia's population was predominantly Protestant, which caused significant political and confessional tension with the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. This dissertation demonstrates that throughout Lohenstein's dramas the …
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Britain, Poland, and the Search for Security in Europe: Anglo-Polish Relations, 1924-1934
… to recover Danzig, the Polish Corridor, or Upper Silesia. Only with Hitler's accession to power and a diminution of the West's resolve in the face of his assaults on the Treaty of Versailles, did London come to favor buying Berlin's good political behavior with frontier revision. Unable to …
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Vliv Wágnerovy školy na architekturu jižní Moravy
… were numerous incomers from Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. Researchers currently devote a great deal of attention to young "Wagnerians" such as Josef Hoffmann, Leopold Bauer or Jan Kotěra but, although the work of these eminent persons is known, this area is little...
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The lost East: Silesian expellees in West Germany and the fantasy of return, 1945-1970
… why millions of expellees from the province of Silesia came to terms with the loss of their homeland. Revising the traditional expectation that this population was largely interested in restoring prewar borders as a means to return to the East, I offer a new answer to the question of why peace …
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The Lost East: Silesian Expellees in West Germany and the Fantasy of Return, 1945--1970
… with an historical overview of German history in Silesia before the expulsion. Further background is then offered through exploring the official narrative of border revision devised by self-proclaimed expellee spokespeople who, after the founding of the Bonn Republic in May 1949, received funding …
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National Socialism in Contested German Borderlands, 1922-1933
… it draws on material from five regions – Upper Silesia, the Border Province Posen-West Prussia, Masuria, eastern Pomerania, and Schleswig – that between them encapsulate the diversity, in geographic location and in the fluidity of ethnic and national dividing lines, of the country's borderlands. …
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The Gothic Presence of Poland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
… A Fragment' (1805), the reference to Silesia and allusion to Poland is code for Poland's 1794 revolution against partitioning powers Austria, Prussia, and Russia. The allusion registers fears of outside threats to the sovereignty of the young, vulnerable United States. As code for the …
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Historical Scholarship, Politics, and Identity in Bohemia, c.1650-1690
… historical account of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia which improved upon their predecessors, coupled with their realistic assessments of the epistemic and political limitations of their works, rendered their historical scholarship credible. Bohemia’s post-Westphalian historians thus …
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Organizacje kombatanckie uczestników Powstania Wielkopolskiego w latach 1921-1949
… in the Great Poland, Pommerania and Upper Silesia provinces – the legal (pro-government) and the oppositional one. It became particulary essentially after May, 1926, when there came through new authorities. And just in that period considerably relented activities of the most numerous …