Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Quest for Homogeneity in Interwar Europe

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Interwar European majority-minority questions have been predominantly discussed in the context of the East until now. This volume challenges that geographical emphasis by examining both Eastern and Western European experiences. It thus lays the foundation for a new comparative international history of the relations between national majorities and minorities in Europe after the Great War. Building on the assumption that nationalist conflicts are based on the dynamic interaction of multiple actors, this book brings together different perspectives and methodological approaches (political, social and transnational) to provide a comprehensive account of minority questions between the two World Wars. With contributions from leading academics and emerging scholars based in the UK, the USA, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland, Hungary and Poland, Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Quest for Homogeneity in Interwar Europe is a wide-ranging study which is firmly anchored in the history of the transition from empires to nation-states as well as in the history of human rights and the nation-state. Cover Contents List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction: Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Quest for Homogeneity in Interwar Europe Emmanuel Dalle Mulle, Davide Rodogno, and Mona Bieling Part 1 Minorities and the Transition from Empires to Nation-states 2 Making Minorities and Majorities: National Indifference and National Self-determination in Habsburg Central Europe Pieter M. Judson 3 “Prison of the Nations?” Union and Nationality in the United Kingdom, 1870–1925 Alvin Jackson 4 Nationalism, Religion, and Minorities from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey Erol Ülker Part 2 The Minority Question across Europe: Comparing Policies, Regimes, and Resistance 5 Assessing the “Paris System”: Self-determination and Ethnic Violence in Alsace-Lorraine and Asia Minor, 1919–23 Volker Prott 6 Sovereignty and Homogeneity: A History of Majority-Minority Relations in Interwar Western Europe Emmanuel Dalle Mulle and Mona Bieling 7 Exercising Minority Rights in New Democracies: Germans and Jews in Interwar Poland, Romania, and Latvia, 1919–33 Marina Germane 8 A Double-edged Sword: The Political Use of National Heterogeneity in the Soviet Union during the Interwar Period Sabine Dullin Part 3 Majorities and Minorities as Social Constructs: Negotiating Identity Ascription 9 Nationalism and Vernacular Cosmologies: Revisiting the Concept of National Indifference and the Limits of Nationalization in the Second Polish Republic Olga Linkiewicz 10 Survival and Assimilation: Loyalism in the Interwar Irish Free State Brian Hughes 11 Navigations of National Belonging: Legal Reintegration after the Return of Alsace to France, 1918–39 Alison Carrol Part 4 Minority Mobilization beyond the Nation-state 12 Internationalist Patriots? Minority Nationalists, Ethnic Minorities, and the Global Interwar Stage, 1918–39 Xosé M. Núñez Seixas and David J. Smith 13 Transnational Collaborations among Women’s Organizations and Questions of Minorities and Macedonia, 1925–30 Jane K. Cowan Coda 14 The Difference Nationalism Makes: Jews and Others in the Twentieth Century Omer Bartov Index