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No Easy Occupation (German History in Context)
Bronson Long
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Description for No Easy Occupation (German History in Context)
Hardcover. The first up-to-date study in English of the Saar dispute, an important stage in French-German postwar relations and thus significant for European integration. Series: German History in Context. Num Pages: 268 pages, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1DFG; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 567.
The first up-to-date study in English of the Saar dispute, an important stage in French-German postwar relations and thus significant for European integration. After 1945, France and West Germany were involved in a bitter dispute over the Saar, a small, coal-rich, culturally German territory bordering France's Lorraine region that France had occupied at war's end. French officials and the Saar's political elite attempted to wrest the territory from Germany and make it an independent nation oriented culturally towards France. Although France's occupation officially ended in 1947 with the ratification of a new constitution and elections, the new Saar state was not fully sovereign, as French control persisted until 1955. The Saar's status was an increasing concern for West Germany, partly due to its implications for the division of Germany.After lengthy negotiations, France and West Germany agreed to turn the Saar into a European territory and the seat of European institutions, much as today's Brussels. Saarlanders, however, saw this as a French ploy to maintain control, and in a heated 1955 referendum voted against it, leading to the territory's reunification with West Germany. This is the first study in English dealing with the German research of recent decades and citing original French and German sources. Bronson Long is Associate Professor of History at Georgia Highlands College.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571139153
SKU
V9781571139153
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99-15
Reviews for No Easy Occupation (German History in Context)
Long's work stimulates very interesting discussions. His concisely written book provides information about many areas during these post-war years on the Saar, which were so exciting precisely because local, regional, bi-national, and international levels were always closely intertwined.
Rainer Hudemann
GERMAN HISTORICAL INSTITUTE LONDON BULLETIN
Long has written a fascinating book about a topic that has long been neglected in English-speaking historiography. He bases it on an impressively large body of primary sources from archives, newspapers, and posters. His concise study vividly portrays an important chapter of German, French, and European history. HISTORISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT
HISTORISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT
[V]aluable. . . provides an up-to-date treatment, in English, of the Saar dispute. Employing a thematic approach to the topic, [Long] relies on both French and German primary sources, and he adjuticates between previous scholarly interpretations of this affair.
JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY
[Long] evoke[s] the reader's interest in this little territory in the southwest of Germany as he describes the complexity of its history. The story of the Saarland between 1944 and 1957 thus contributes to the history of borderlands, French colonialism, German state building, and nationalism, as well as to the history of Europeanization in the wake of World War II.
H-NET GERMAN
Bronson Long's in-depth study of French policy in the Saar between 1944 and 1957 is to be thoroughly welcomed. . . . What Long has achieved . . . is . . . the first systematic and sophisticated study on the Saar question in English, which one can only hope will make the subject accessible to a wider group of scholars interested in instances of foreign rule, Franco-German relations, and postwar European history more broadly.
GERMAN HISTORY
Rainer Hudemann
GERMAN HISTORICAL INSTITUTE LONDON BULLETIN
Long has written a fascinating book about a topic that has long been neglected in English-speaking historiography. He bases it on an impressively large body of primary sources from archives, newspapers, and posters. His concise study vividly portrays an important chapter of German, French, and European history. HISTORISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT
HISTORISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT
[V]aluable. . . provides an up-to-date treatment, in English, of the Saar dispute. Employing a thematic approach to the topic, [Long] relies on both French and German primary sources, and he adjuticates between previous scholarly interpretations of this affair.
JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY
[Long] evoke[s] the reader's interest in this little territory in the southwest of Germany as he describes the complexity of its history. The story of the Saarland between 1944 and 1957 thus contributes to the history of borderlands, French colonialism, German state building, and nationalism, as well as to the history of Europeanization in the wake of World War II.
H-NET GERMAN
Bronson Long's in-depth study of French policy in the Saar between 1944 and 1957 is to be thoroughly welcomed. . . . What Long has achieved . . . is . . . the first systematic and sophisticated study on the Saar question in English, which one can only hope will make the subject accessible to a wider group of scholars interested in instances of foreign rule, Franco-German relations, and postwar European history more broadly.
GERMAN HISTORY