02842nam a2200505 a 4500 ebr10481992 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 101001s2011 njua sb 001 0 eng d 2010040001 9780691140247 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780691152912 (pbk.: alk. paper) 9781400839964 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)744588454 eng ger e-pl--- e-gx--- DK4780.3 .T413 2011eb 943.8/52 22 Thum, Gregor, 1967- Fremde Stadt. English Uprooted [electronic resource] : how Breslau became Wroc�aw during the century of expulsions / 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 Poland Wroc�aw History 20th century. Social change Poland Wroc�aw History 20th century. City and town life Poland Wroc�aw History 20th century. Collective memory Poland Wroc�aw History 20th century. Wroc�aw (Poland) History 20th century. Oder-Neisse Line (Germany and Poland) Wroc�aw (Poland) Social conditions 20th century. Electronic books. local Lampert, Tom. Brown, Allison. Martin, W. Tilbury, Jasper. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10481992 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 224598 224598