Uprooted
Subtitle: how Breslau became Wrocław during the century of expulsions
By: Gregor Thum ; translated from the German by Tom Lampert and Allison Brown ; translation of Polish sources by W. Martin and Jasper Tilbury
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691140247; 9780691152912
Subjects: Collective memory; Deportations from Poland; Influence; Social change; World War, 1939-1945; Social conditions; Forced migration; City and town life; History
Work titles: Fremde Stadt
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A note on names; title: Prologue: A dual tragedy; title: The destruction of Breslau; title: Poland's shift to the west; title: pt. 1. The postwar era : rupture and survival; title: Takeover; title: Moving people; title: A loss of substance; title: Reconstruction; title: pt. 2. The politics of the past : the city's transformation; title: The impermanence syndrome; title: Propaganda as necessity; title: Mythicizing history; title: Cleansing memory; title: The pillars of an imagined tradition; title: Old town, new contexts; title: pt. 3. Prospects; title: Amputated memory and the turning point of 1989; title: Appendix 1: List of abbrevations; title: Appendix 2: Translations of Polish institutions; title: Appendix 3: List of Polish and German street names