Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland

In the bloody twentieth-century battles over Central Europe''s borderlands, Upper Silesians stand out for resisting pressure to become loyal Germans or Poles. This work traces nationalist activists'' efforts to divide Upper Silesian communities, which were bound by their Catholic faith and bilingualism, into two ''imagined'' nations. These efforts, which ranged from the 1848 Revolution to the afte...