LEADER 03953cam a2200553 i 4500001 265846 005 20240621232326.0 007 ta 008 170503t20162016pauab b 001 0 eng d 010 2017287444 020 9780822964261 |q(paperback ; |qalkaline paper) 020 0822964260 |q(paperback ; |qalkaline paper) 035 (OCoLC)ocn951158062 035 265846 042 lccopycat 043 e-xr--- 049 LHMA 040 YDXCP |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDXCP |dBDX |dBTCTA |dCDX |dOCLCF |dUAB |dUWW |dOCLCO |dCSAIL |dOBE |dOCLCA |dOCLCQ |dDCK |dCHVBK |dOCLCO |dLHM 050 00 DB2500.S94 |bG53 2016 100 1 Glassheim, Eagle, |eauthor. 245 10 Cleansing the Czechoslovak borderlands : |bmigration, environment, and health in the former Sudetenland / |cEagle Glassheim. 264 1 Pittsburgh, Pa. : |bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press, |c[2016] 264 4 |c©2016 300 ix, 275 pages : |billustrations, maps ; |c23 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 340 |nregular print 490 1 Pitt series in Russian and East European studies 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-270) and index. 505 00 |tIntroduction -- |tCzechs, Germans, and the Borderlands before 1945 -- |tCleansing the Borderlands -- |tExpellees and Health in Postwar Germany -- |tNew Frontier : Resettlement in Czechoslovakia -- |tMost, the Town That Moved -- |tUnsettled Landscapes -- |tAfterword : "A Shared Longing." 520 "Prior to their expulsion in 1945, ethnic Germans had inhabited the Sudeten borderlands for hundreds of years, with deeply rooted local cultures and close, if sometimes tense, ties with Bohemia's Czech majority. Cynically, if largely willingly, harnessed by Hitler in 1938 to his pursuit of a Greater Germany, the Sudetenland's three million Germans became the focus of Czech authorities in their retributive efforts to remove an alien ethnic element from the body politic--and claim the spoils of this coal-rich, industrialized area. Yet, as Glassheim reveals, socialist efforts to create a modern utopia in the newly resettled 'frontier' territories proved exceedingly difficult. Many borderland regions remained sparsely populated, peppered with dilapidated and abandoned houses, and hobbled by decaying infrastructure. In the more densely populated northern districts, coalmines, chemical works, and power plants scarred the land and spewed toxic gases into the air. What once was a diverse religious, cultural, economic, and linguistic 'contact zone,' became a wastland according to many observers. As Glassheim's study reveals, the lessons drawn from the Sudetenland speak to the deep social traumas and environmental pathologies wrought by both ethnic cleansing and state-sponsored modernization processes that accelerated across Europe as a result of the great wars of the twentieth century."--Provided by publisher. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Germans |xRelocation |zCzech Republic |zSudetenland. 651 0 Sudetenland (Czech Republic) |xEnvironmental conditions. 651 0 Sudetenland (Czech Republic) |xEconomic conditions. 651 0 Sudetenland (Czech Republic) |xHistory |y20th century. 650 7 Ecology. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00901476 650 7 Economic history. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00901974 650 7 Germans |xRelocation. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00942144 651 7 Czech Republic |zSudetenland. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01245827 650 7 Umweltbelastung. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4061619-8 650 7 Vertreibung. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4063299-4 650 7 Wirtschaft. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4066399-1 651 7 Sudetenland. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4058390-9 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 Series in Russian and East European studies. 852 0 |bstacks |hDB2500.S94 |iG53 2016