By Christopher J. Fischer
The sector of Alsace, positioned among the hereditary enemies of France and Germany, served as a trophy of conflict 4 instances among 1870–1945. With every one shift, French and German officers sought to win the allegiance of the neighborhood population. in line with those pressures, Alsatians invoked regionalism-articulated as a political language, a cultural imaginative and prescient, and a group of identity-not basically to outline and shield their very own pursuits opposed to the nationalist claims of France and Germany, but additionally to push for social swap, safeguard spiritual rights, and advertise the prestige of the zone in the greater nationwide group. Alsatian regionalism notwithstanding, was once neither unitary nor unifying, as Alsatians themselves have been divided politically, socially, and culturally. the writer indicates that the Janus-faced personality of Alsatian regionalism issues to the ambiguous position of neighborhood identification in either fostering and inhibiting loyalty to the kingdom. eventually, the writer makes use of the case of Alsace to discover the normal designations of French civic nationalism as opposed to German ethnic nationalism and argues for the powerful similarities among the 2 international locations' conceptions of nationhood.
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Alsace to the Alsatians?: Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1870-1939 (Contemporary European History) by Christopher J. Fischer