Peripheries at the Centre

Peripheries at the CentreFollowing the Treaty of Versailles, European nation states were faced with the challenge of instilling national loyalty in their new borderlands, in which fellow citizens often differed dramatically from one another along religious, linguistic, cultural, or ethnic lines. Peripheries at the Centre compares the experiences of schooling in Upper Silesia in Poland and Eupen, Sankt Vith, and Malmedy in Belgium border regions detached from the German Empire

Throughout the twentieth century it was the labor movement that fought for all working people

and societies

and public diplomacy fronts of the second intifada (2000–2005) and how Israel deliberated its response in an environment where the state is only one of the players in a global arena in which individuals

and other animals until he meets his closest friend of all—a young girl named Nepeese

English-language translations of traditional plays from the marionette puppet theater of Northern China

Each chapter is authored by lawyers

Melewski worked to save the six-million acre Adirondack Park from twin threats to its future: the devastating damage from acid rain and the sudden breakup of massive private land holdings that had been intact for almost one hundred years

this book gives a definitive account of the politics of personal information in West Germany at the dawn of the information society

bridging the natural sciences and the social sciences

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Abundant case studies highlight common and challenging precepting situations

as addressed in this volume that examines the roots and results of ethnic