Introduction: Between the Non-National, the National and (Post-National) Europeanness 1. Upper Silesia in Modern Central Europe: On the Significance of the Non-National in the Age of Nations Tomasz Kamusella 2. Fatal Violence in Upper Silesia, 1918-1922 Timothy Wilson 3. 'Scoundrels' and Desperate Mothers: Gendering German and Polish Propaganda in the Upper Silesian Plebiscite, 1919-1921 Allison Rodriguez 4. Bilingual Publics and Imagined Communities: The Upper Silesian Plebiscite of 1921 James Bjork 5. Creating a Citizen: Politics and the Education System in the Post-Plebiscite Silesian Voivodeship Anna Novikov 6. National Indifference and National Radicalism in Weimar Upper Silesia Brendan Karch 7. A 'Volksdeutsche Resistance Movement?' Local Responses to Nazi Policies Towards the 'Nationally Indifferent' in Eastern Upper Silesia, 1939-1945 Peter Polak-Springer 8.

Upper Silesia in the age of the ethnically homogenous nation-state, 1945-9 Hugo Service 9. Writing Identity: The Upper Silesian Plebiscite and Uprisings in Historiography and Collective Memories Movement?' Local Responses to Nazi Policies Towards the 'Nationally Indifferent' in Eastern Upper Silesia, 1939-1945 Peter Polak-Springer 8. Upper Silesia in the age of the ethnically homogenous nation-state, 1945-9 Hugo Service 9. Writing Identity: The Upper Silesian Plebiscite and Uprisings in Historiography and Collective Memories.