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Throughout the nineteenth and into the early decades of the twentieth century, it was common for rural and working-class parents in the Czech-German borderlands to ensure that their children were bilingual by sending them to live with families who spoke the "other" language. As nationalism became a more potent force in Central Europe, however, such practices troubled pro-German and pro-Czech activists, who feared that the children born to their nation could literally be "lost" or "kidnapped" from the national community through such experiences and, more generally, by parents who were...

Mit Gegen die Welt legt die US-amerikanische Historikerin Tara Zahra eine fantastisch geschriebene Geschichte des antiglobalistischen, antiinternationalistischen Denkens und Handelns in der Zeit zwischen dem Ersten und dem Zweiten Weltkrieg vor. Sie zeigt, wie ein Gemisch aus Nationalismus, Protektionismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit rund um den Globus die Politik und das Denken eroberte. Ihr ebenso packendes wie bedrückendes Porträt einer Welt im Moment ihres Auseinanderbrechens ist auch eine Warnung: Die Ordnung, die wir für selbstverständlich erachten, kann brüchig...

Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new homes and the ones they left behind. In this groundbreaking study, Tara Zahra explores the deeper story of this astonishing movement of people--one of the largest in human history.

The great exodus out of Eastern Europe hollowed out villages with dizzying speed. As villages emptied and the fear of depopulation ran rampant, anxiety over "American fever" prevailed, leading to the scapegoating of Jewish emigration agents. Yet others saw vast opportunity: to seed colonies of...

Throughout the nineteenth and into the early decades of the twentieth century, it was common for rural and working-class parents in the Czech-German borderlands to ensure that their children were bilingual by sending them to live with families who spoke the "other" language. As nationalism became a more potent force in Central Europe, however, such practices troubled pro-German and pro-Czech activists, who feared that the children born to their nation could literally be "lost" or "kidnapped" from the national community through such experiences and, more generally, by parents who were...