Religion and the Rise of Nationalism: A Profile of an East-Central European City

by Robert E. Alvis

Currently part of Poland, the city of Poznan straddled an ethnic border zone of sorts prior to World War II, on the edge of a predominantly German sphere of settlement to the west and a predominantly Polish sphere to the east. This juxtaposition of cultures helped stimulate the development of vigorous nationalist movements in the first half of the nineteenth century, and Poznan emerged as an important center of such activity among Germans and Poles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815630816
• ISBN13: 9780815630814
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"