Schleswig Holstein : contested region(s) through history

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Schleswig and Holstein have been contested regions for over a thousand years, but contested between different peoples and groups, and for very different reasons. In modern times, they have been closely connected to the building up of national identity and the formation of the modern nation state. Since the division in 1920 of Schleswig into a northern, Danish part and a southern, German part, this region has also been an interesting example for international studies on whether it is possible to maintain regional cultural and economic cooperation across a modern state border, and on the rights and duties of linguistic minorities. This book aims at viewing the areas in their own right over a period of thousand years, and not simply as appendages to modern Danish and German nation-building. This does not imply that they are seen as isolated entities, still less that the regions around them and many strong and varied influences from outside are ignored. Rather, the book aims at investigating how Schleswig and Holstein have constantly been contested places, situated where different interests and forces have collided.

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Introduction / Michael Bregnsbo & Kurt Villads Jensen ; Some reflexions on Schleswig and Holstein as contested regions / Steen Bo Frandsen ; The Controversy about Antiquity in Schleswig in the 19th and 20th Centuries 25 / Inge Adriansen ; The Creation of Historical Material Memory Places within the Danish-German Borderland in the 19th and 20th Centuries / Jelena Steigerwald ; The dynastic marriage market of a contested region : Marriages and marriage politics of the Dukes of Schleswig from Abel to Adolf / Oliver Auge ; Between Dynasty and Nation. Augustenborg and other ducal dynasties of Schleswig and Holstein on the path towards modernity in the 18th and 19th Century / Mikkel Venborg Pedersen ; The Influence of Economic and Social Interests on the Choice of National Identity in Schleswig, 1840-1848 / Hans Schultz Hansen ; “National” conflicts in the medieval Schleswig-Holstein? / Carsten Jahnke ; Schleswig(-)Holstein 1848 : Legitimism, Nationalism, Constitutionalism and Regionalism in Conflict / Michael Bregnsbo ; A contested heritage - the Dannevirke as a mirror and object of military and political history / Andres Minos Dobat ; Bones4Culture - The first results : leprosy and chemical life history in medieval Schleswig / Jesper L. Boldsen, Kaare Lund Rasmussen and Lilian Skytte ; Vatican Testimony of a German-Oriented Diocese of Schleswig / Kirsi Salonen ; The cathedral chapter of Schleswig as a source of inspiration for reform in Odense / Per Seesko ; Heligoland during Early Modern times / Martin Krieger ; The History of a Defeat. 1864 and the flagellant tradition of Danish historiography / Rasmus Glenthøj ; Dynasty and nation - The Schleswig question and the house of Glücksborg / Jes Fabricius Møller