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On Their Own Behalf : Ewald Ammende, Europe's National Minorities and the Campaign for Cultural Autonomy 1920-1936, Hardback Book

On Their Own Behalf : Ewald Ammende, Europe's National Minorities and the Campaign for Cultural Autonomy 1920-1936 Hardback

Part of the On the Boundary of Two Worlds series

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What form should Europe take? Should it be based on 'nation states' or 'states of nations'?

On what basis should European unification proceed? Should it be an elite undertaking pioneered by statesmen elected to democratic government offices, or should true unification also demand a significant European cultural forum open to spokesmen and -women representing the continent's nationality groups?

Was the League of Nations really such a thing? Or was it a League of States? All these questions were posed by Ewald Ammende and his fellow minority associates during the 1920s.

Coming to terms with the consequences of collapsed empires and at least four years of conflict, they were forced to consider how best to re-build their continent as if it were a tabula rasa.

In the process, they provided intelligent, perceptive analyses of the national and international affairs of the day, particularly as they affected Central and Eastern Europe.

Their voices, reflecting their status as national minorities and a geographical location beyond the borders of the post-war Great Powers, deserve to be written more thoroughly into the history of the interwar years.

Their ideas still provide food for thought even today.

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