{"product_id":"peripheries-at-the-centre-machteld-venken-9781789209679","title":"Peripheries at the Centre: Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003e Following the Treaty of Versailles, European nation-states were faced with the challenge of instilling national loyalty in their new borderlands, in which fellow citizens often differed dramatically from one another along religious, linguistic, cultural, or ethnic lines. \u003cem\u003ePeripheries at the Centre\u003c\/em\u003e compares the experiences of schooling in Upper Silesia in Poland and Eupen, Sankt Vith, and Malmedy in Belgium - border regions detached from the German Empire after the First World War. It demonstrates how newly configured countries envisioned borderland schools and language learning as tools for realizing the imagined peaceful Europe that underscored the political geography of the interwar period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Machteld Venken\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1789209676\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781789209679\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Machteld Venken","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44126956323071,"sku":"9781789209679","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3c019430-d8e0-4a81-8f7c-c46e26506eee.jpg?v=1687451077","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/peripheries-at-the-centre-machteld-venken-9781789209679","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}