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Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Cent
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- Condition
- Very good
- Seller notes
- “very clean,fast ship”
- ISBN
- 9780822964292
- Subject Area
- Social Science, History
- Publication Name
- Tangible Belonging : Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Europe / Austria & Hungary, Sociology / General, Customs & Traditions, Europe / General
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Series
- Russian and East European Studies
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-10
0822964295
ISBN-13
9780822964292
eBay Product ID (ePID)
224106378
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Publication Name
Tangible Belonging : Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary
Language
English
Subject
Europe / Austria & Hungary, Sociology / General, Customs & Traditions, Europe / General
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, History
Series
Russian and East European Studies
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2016-054046
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"In this engaging and well-researched study, Swanson tells us not just about the varieties of Germanness in the twentieth century, but also how minority identities are formed. The book is magnificent in its 'thick description,' and one gets a tangible sense of what it was like to be in a German village in interwar Hungary." --Winson Chu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, author of The German Minority in Interwar Poland, ". . . delivers a rich picture of Danube Swabian in modern Hungary. Its presentation is not restricted to political developments, but includes captivating descriptions of social mores and practices. . . . Swanson has filled an important gap in English-language historiography on twentieth-century Hungary and the forming of national minorities. Its thorough and nuanced analysis of an often-neglected topic will prove invaluable to an international audience." -- Slavic Review, "Sophisticated and searching, Tangible Belonging tells the story of Hungary's German-speaking peasantry, showing how ordinary people's identities were made and unmade across the tumultuous twentieth century. Rich ethnographic details fill the pages, and we encounter absorbing passages on everything from house design to hobby genealogists. A fascinating, important book." --Robert Nemes, Colgate University, Given the turbulent history of Central and Eastern Europe, historians have tended to focus on the ethnic and nationality conflicts that follow a narrative of either steps toward national awakening or a struggle for liberation against an oppressor. Swanson provides an alternative approach in this magnificent book about German-speaking minority in Hungary. -- Choice
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
943.9/00431
Synopsis
Winner, 2019 HSA Book Prize Tangible Belonging presents a compelling historical and ethnographic study of the German speakers in Hungary, from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Through this tumultuous period in European history, the Hungarian-German leadership tried to organize German-speaking villagers, Hungary tried to integrate (and later expel) them, and Germany courted them. The German speakers themselves, however, kept negotiating and renegotiating their own idiosyncratic sense of what it meant to be German. John C. Swanson's work looks deeply into the enduring sense of tangible belonging that characterized Germanness from the perspective of rural dwellers, as well as the broader phenomenon of "minority making" in twentieth-century Europe. The chapters reveal the experiences of Hungarian Germans through the First World War and the subsequent dissolution of Austria-Hungary; the treatment of the German minority in the newly independent Hungarian Kingdom; the rise of the racial Volksdeutsche movement and Nazi influence before and during the Second World War; the immediate aftermath of the war and the expulsions; the suppression of German identity in Hungary during the Cold War; and the fall of Communism and reinstatement of minority rights in 1993. Throughout, Swanson offers colorful oral histories from residents of the rural Swabian villages to supplement his extensive archival research. As he shows, the definition of being a German in Hungary varies over time and according to individual interpretation, and does not delineate a single national identity. What it meant to be German was continually in flux. In Swanson's broader perspective, defining German identity is ultimately a complex act of cognition reinforced by the tangible environment of objects, activities, and beings. As such, it endures in individual and collective mentalities despite the vicissitudes of time, history, language, and politics., Tangible Belonging presents a compelling historical and ethnographic study of the German speakers in Hungary, from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Through this tumultuous period in European history, the Hungarian-German leadership tried to organize German-speaking villagers, Hungary tried to integrate (and later expel) them, and Germany courted them. The German speakers themselves, however, kept negotiating and renegotiating their own idiosyncratic sense of what it meant to be German. John C. Swanson's work looks deeply into the enduring sense of tangible belonging that characterized Germanness from the perspective of rural dwellers, as well as the broader phenomenon of "minority making" in twentieth-century Europe. The chapters reveal the experiences of Hungarian Germans through the First World War and the subsequent dissolution of Austria-Hungary; the treatment of the German minority in the newly independent Hungarian Kingdom; the rise of the racial Volksdeutsche movement and Nazi influence before and during the Second World War; the immediate aftermath of the war and the expulsions; the suppression of German identity in Hungary during the Cold War; and the fall of Communism and reinstatement of minority rights in 1993. Throughout, Swanson offers colorful oral histories from residents of the rural Swabian villages to supplement his extensive archival research. As he shows, the definition of being a German in Hungary varies over time and according to individual interpretation, and does not delineate a single national identity. What it meant to be German was continually in flux. In Swanson's broader perspective, defining German identity is ultimately a complex act of cognition reinforced by the tangible environment of objects, activities, and beings. As such, it endures in individual and collective mentalities despite the vicissitudes of time, history, language, and politics., Tangible Belonging presents a compelling historical and ethnographic study of the German speakers in Hungary, from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Through this tumultuous period in European history, the Hungarian-German leadership tried to organize German-speaking villagers, Hungary tried to integrate (and later expel) them, and Germany courted them. The German speakers themselves, however, kept negotiating and renegotiating their own idiosyncratic sense of what it meant to be German. John C. Swanson's work looks deeply into the enduring sense of tangible belonging that characterized Germanness from the perspective of rural dwellers, as well as the broader phenomenon of "minority making" in twentieth-century Europe.
LC Classification Number
DB919.2.G3S93 2016
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Copyright Date
2016
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