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Narratives of the European BorderAn Introduction to European Nowheres

Narratives of the European Border: An Introduction to European Nowheres [The political borders of Europe were violently transformed during the twentieth century. The large, multi-ethnic and moribund empires of the Romanov, Habsburg and Ottoman dynasties were broken up into nation states after the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Sovereign states such as ‘Czecho-slovakia’ and ‘The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes’ were confected on the drawing boards of the Parisian châteaux; Poland was once again reconstituted from partition; Romania expanded, as Austria and Hungary contracted. Such was the new power of national self-determination that, as Benedict Anderson has written, ‘even the surviving imperial powers came to the League of Nations dressed in national costume rather than imperial uniform’.1] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Narratives of the European BorderAn Introduction to European Nowheres

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
ISBN
978-1-349-54129-4
Pages
1 –15
DOI
10.1057/9780230287860_1
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Abstract

[The political borders of Europe were violently transformed during the twentieth century. The large, multi-ethnic and moribund empires of the Romanov, Habsburg and Ottoman dynasties were broken up into nation states after the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Sovereign states such as ‘Czecho-slovakia’ and ‘The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes’ were confected on the drawing boards of the Parisian châteaux; Poland was once again reconstituted from partition; Romania expanded, as Austria and Hungary contracted. Such was the new power of national self-determination that, as Benedict Anderson has written, ‘even the surviving imperial powers came to the League of Nations dressed in national costume rather than imperial uniform’.1]

Published: Mar 5, 2015

Keywords: Sovereign State; Border City; Negative Freedom; Political Border; Literary Geography

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