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7 cze 2018 · The Return of Alsace to France examines this story. Drawing upon national, regional, and local archives, it follows the difficult process of Alsace’s reintegration into French society, culture, political and economic systems, and legislative and administrative institutions.
1 mar 2010 · Alsace to the Alsatians?: Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1870-1939 (Studies in Contemporary European History Book 5) - Kindle edition by Fischer, Christopher J.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Alsace to the Alsatians?:
7 mar 2019 · This book gave a good historical background of the Alsace Lorraine region, which changed hands over the years between France and Germany. My family came over from Alsace before Germany was officially a country. They considered themselves to be from Alsace, and not Germany.
This chapter introduces Alsace and contextualizes its interwar experience by tracing its longer history. Alsace was gradually incorporated into France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, annexed into Germany in 1871, and then returned to France in 1918 in the aftermath of the First World War and the Alsatian Revolution.
The region of Alsace, located between the hereditary enemies of France and Germany, served as a trophy of war four times between 1870–1945. With each shift, French and German officials sought to win the allegiance of the local populace.
The first major English-language work on Alsace-Lorraine and imperial Germany in over fifty years, Reluctant Union revises many of the commonly held notions about the German annexation and...
2 cze 2012 · The book explores the complex relationship between the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine and their historical ties to France and Germany, focusing on the injustices faced by the people of these regions since their annexation by Germany in 1871.
