Thum, Gregor, 1967-
Uprooted how Breslau became Wroc�aw during the century of expulsions / [electronic resource] : Gregor Thum ; translated from the German by Tom Lampert and Allison Brown ; translation of Polish sources by W. Martin and Jasper Tilbury. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011. - xl, 508 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
World War, 1939-1945--Influence.
World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
Forced migration--History--Poland--Wroc�aw--20th century.
Social change--History--Poland--Wroc�aw--20th century.
City and town life--History--Poland--Wroc�aw--20th century.
Collective memory--History--Poland--Wroc�aw--20th century.
Wroc�aw (Poland)--History--20th century.
Oder-Neisse Line (Germany and Poland)
Wroc�aw (Poland)--Social conditions--20th century.
Electronic books.
DK4780.3 / .T413 2011eb
943.8/52
Uprooted how Breslau became Wroc�aw during the century of expulsions / [electronic resource] : Gregor Thum ; translated from the German by Tom Lampert and Allison Brown ; translation of Polish sources by W. Martin and Jasper Tilbury. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011. - xl, 508 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
World War, 1939-1945--Influence.
World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
Forced migration--History--Poland--Wroc�aw--20th century.
Social change--History--Poland--Wroc�aw--20th century.
City and town life--History--Poland--Wroc�aw--20th century.
Collective memory--History--Poland--Wroc�aw--20th century.
Wroc�aw (Poland)--History--20th century.
Oder-Neisse Line (Germany and Poland)
Wroc�aw (Poland)--Social conditions--20th century.
Electronic books.
DK4780.3 / .T413 2011eb
943.8/52