The Creation of National Spaces in a Pluricultural Region: The Case of Prussian Lithuania (Lithuanian Studies Without Borders)

Vasilijus Safronovas

$160.65

Publication Date: December 31st, 2016

Publisher:

Academic Studies Press

ISBN:

9781618115249

Pages:

470

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Description

This book deals with the spatial concepts that two erstwhile neighboring cultures, Lithuanian and German, associated with one physical space-a Lithuanian region in Prussia. Covering a period of five centuries, it explores how, when, and why these concepts have been developed and transformed regulating the spatial imagination of several generations.

About the Author

Vasilijus Safronovas is principal investigator at the Institute of Baltic Region History and Archaeology, at Klaipeda University. He has published widely on issues of memory, identity, and cultural contact. His recent study Kampf um Identität: Die ideologische Auseinandersetzung in Memel/Klaipeda im 20. Jahrhundert (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015) was awarded the Immanuel-Kant-Forschungspreis from the German Federal Government.

The Creation of National Spaces in a Pluricultural Region: The Case of Prussian Lithuania (Lithuanian Studies Without Borders)

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About the Author

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