Uprooted how Breslau became Wrocław during the century of expulsions /

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Autor Principal: Thum, Gregor, 1967-
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Outros autores: Lampert, Tom, Brown, Allison, Martin, W., Tilbury, Jasper
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
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Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • A note on names
  • Prologue: A dual tragedy
  • The destruction of Breslau
  • Poland's shift to the west
  • pt. 1. The postwar era : rupture and survival
  • Takeover
  • Moving people
  • A loss of substance
  • Reconstruction
  • pt. 2. The politics of the past : the city's transformation
  • The impermanence syndrome
  • Propaganda as necessity
  • Mythicizing history
  • Cleansing memory
  • The pillars of an imagined tradition
  • Old town, new contexts
  • pt. 3. Prospects
  • Amputated memory and the turning point of 1989
  • Appendix 1: List of abbrevations
  • Appendix 2: Translations of Polish institutions
  • Appendix 3: List of Polish and German street names.