Title | Nationalising and Denationalising European Border Regions, 1800-2000 [electronic resource] : Views from Geography and History / edited by Hans Knippenberg, Jan Markusse |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1999 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4293-9 |
Descript | XII, 293 p. online resource |
I Introduction -- 1 19th and 20th century borders and border regions in Europe: some reflections -- 2 State borders in geography and history -- II Nationalising Border Regions -- 3 The incorporation of Limburg in the Dutch state -- 4 Borders, ethnicity, and demographic patterns in the Russian Baltic Provinces in the late nineteenth century -- 5 Politicised borders: the case of Greek Macedonia -- 6 โA bleeding woundโ, how border-drawing affects local communities: a case study from the Austrian-Slovene border in Styria -- III Denationalising Border Regions -- 7 Relaxation of tensions in the multi-ethnic border province of South Tyrol: the importance of cross border relations -- 8 An anatomy of Basque identity: a geographical analysis of identity patterns in the Franco-Spanish border area -- 9 The Austro-Hungarian border region: opportunities for and perspectives of regional development -- 10 Border effects and the cultural landscape: the changing impact of boundaries on regional development in Switzerland -- 11 City-networking and bottom-up development by transborder co-operation: the influence of local authorities in the Saar-Lor-Lux Region -- References -- About the authors