Borderlands in European history : essays from the edge of the world / Yongku Cha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cha, Yongku, 1964- author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost

Language:

English

Korean

Subjects (All):

Borderlands--Europe--History.

Borderlands.

Europe--Boundaries.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 263 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2026]

Language Note:

Translated from Korean.

System Details:

text file PDF

Contents:

Part I: Western Europe

Chapter 1. The Teutoburg Forest: A Border War between Empire and Periphery

Chapter 2. Aachen: A Historic Borderland

Chapter 3. The ULB–VUB Interface: A Border within Brussels

Chapter 4. Lotharingia: The Lost Border Kingdom

Chapter 5. Strasbourg/Straßburg: A Historic Border City

Chapter 6. The Rhine: Birthplace of French and German Nationalism

Chapter 7. Lake Constance: A Shared Border

Part II: Central and Eastern Europe

Chapter 8. Border Commission of West Germany and East Germany

Chapter 9. Berlin: Duet of Center and Periphery

Chapter 10. Austria: Eternal Borderland

Chapter 11. Oder-Neisse Border: from Bloody Border (blutige Grenze) to Bridge

Chapter 12. Broumov in the Czech Sudetenland: A Migrant-Founded Border Town

Chapter 13. Hungary: Europe’s Border Checkpoint

Chapter 14. Ukraine: Eternal Borderland

Part III: Northern Europe and the Baltic Sea

Chapter 15. The Baltic Sea: A Sea of Transboundary Diasporas

Chapter 16. Kaliningrad: City of Migration and Vengeance

Chapter 17. Novgorod: Competing Memories

Chapter 18. Tallinn: The City of Coexistence

Chapter 19. Schleswig: The Tragedy of the Border Plebiscite

Part IV: Port-Cities in the Mediterranean

Chapter 20. Trieste: A Port-city of Exiles, Artists, and Coffee

Chapter 21. Rijeka/Fiume: The Never-Ending War of Memories

Chapter 22. Palermo: A Medieval Port-City

Chapter 23. Acre: A Port-City of the Crusader Kingdom

Part V Colonial Borders

Chapter 24. Haiti and Dominican Republic: Tears of the Sugar Island

Chapter 25. Afghanistan’s Durand Line: The Great Game’s Sacrificial Lamb

Chapter 26. Radcliffe Line: Britain’s Exit Strategy

Chapter 27. Sykes–Picot Line: The Geopolitical Powder Keg of the Modern Middle East

Chapter 28. Israel and Palestine: The Aftermath of European Imperial Partition

Chapter 29. Epilogue.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 17, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9783032169433

3032169437

Publisher Number:

90104464136

CIPO000337846

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.