WEST PRUSSIA

Ger. Westpreussen, former province of Prussia, 9,867 sq mi (25,556 sq km), NE Germany, extending S from the Baltic Sea, between Pomerania on the west and East Prussia on the east. Danzig was the capital. The larger part of the region belonged to Poland until the Polish partitions of 1772 and 1793 and included Pomerelia (Ger. Pommerellen; see Pomerania). The province also included, prior to World War I, the western portion of originally East Prussian territory, including the cities of Elbing, Marienburg, and Marienwerder. The Treaty of Versailles (1919) gave most of West Prussia to Poland (see Polish Corridor) and made Danzig and its environs a free city. The remainder of West Prussia was divided between the Prussian province of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia and the district of West Prussia, incorporated with the province of East Prussia. The whole territory was again annexed to Germany at the outbreak (1939) of World War II, but in 1945 the Potsdam Conference placed it under Polish administration, where it has remained since.

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books on: West Prussia  - 3126 results

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The Vanished Kingdom: Travels through the History of Prussia
Book by James Charles Roy; Westview Press, 1999
Subjects: Europe, Eastern--Politics And Government--1989-, National Characteristics, Prussian, Political Culture--Germany--Prussia, Prussia (Germany)--Historiography, Prussia (Germany)--History--Philosophy
...the century. And to the west, a common border with...Brandenburg, what we call West Prussia. This was joined to East...never made it far enough west to outdistance the rapid...would be no return. East Prussia for these people drifted...
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The Evolution of Prussia, the Making of an Empire
Book by J. A. R. Marriott, C. Grant Robertson; Clarendon Press, 1915
Subjects: Prussia (Germany)--History
...in favour of the greater part of West Prussia. But no similar pleas could avail...commercial outlet to the north; to the Prussia ns it is intolerable that the maritime capital of West Prussia should belong to any one but themselves...
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The Social and Political Conflict in Prussia, 1858-1864
Book by Eugene N. Anderson; University of Nebraska Press, 1954
Subjects: Prussia (Germany)--Politics And Government--1848-1866
...information about them was East and West Prussia. Associations were established...the Economic Society for East and West Prussia was signed by the prominent liberals...the Economic Society for East and West Prussia included merchants, large-scale...
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Life and Times of Stein: Or, Germany and Prussia in the Napoleonic Age - Vol. 1
Book by Sir J. R. Seeley; Roberts Brothers, 1879
Subjects: Europe--History--1789-1900, Europe--Politics And Government--1789-1900, Prussia (Germany)--History--Frederick William Iii, 1797-1840, Stein, Karl--Freiherr Vom Und Zum--1757-1831
...six years, the government of Prussia had been conducted with an intense...series of monarchs who ruled in Prussia between 1640 and 1786. So much...which he had labored in Silesia and West Prussia for the welfare of his new subjects...
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Life and Times of Stein: Or, Germany and Prussia in the Napoleonic Age - Vol. 2
Book by J. R. Seeley; Roberts Brothers, 1879
Subjects: Europe--History--1789-1900, Europe--Politics And Government--1789-1900, Prussia (Germany)--History--Frederick William Iii, 1797-1840, Stein, Karl--Freiherr Vom Und Zum--1757-1831
...whether the spoliation of Silesia, of West Prussia and of Hannover was to be repeated, and whether Prussia meant to take Suum cuigue rapit as her motto. In Bavaria Aretin compared Prussia to the frog which puffs itself out to...
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The Geographical Transmission of Smallpox in the Franco-prussian War: Prisoner of War Camps and Their Impact upon Epidemic Diffusion Processes in the Civil Settlement System of Prussia, 1870-71
Journal article by Matthew Smallman-Raynor, Andrew D. Cliff; Medical History, Vol. 46, 2002
...German Confederation, Prussia occupied approximately...Belgium and Holland in the west to the Baltic Sea and...1871, the population of Prussia numbered 24.7 millions...Elsewhere, to the extreme west of Prussia, the arrival of infected...
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Public Service Personnel in West Germany in the 1950s: Controversial Policy Decisions and Their Effects on Social Composition, Gender Structure, and the Role of Former Nazis
Journal article by Curt Garner; Journal of Social History, Vol. 29, 1995
Subjects: Civil service--Hungary, Public employees--Social aspects, West Germany--Politics and government
...and the resultant heightening of East-West tensions, led Social Democratic leaders...was a response to a widespread mood in West German society. Efforts to come to terms...public schools. Most school teachers in West Germany were employees of state governments...
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SECTION 1 GENDER ISSUES: Masculinity in the Modern West: Gender, Civilization and the Body
Journal article by Chris Otter; Journal of Social History, Vol. 44, 2010
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Masculinity in the Modern West: Gender, Civilization and the Body (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...Otter Masculinity in the Modern West: Gender, Civilization and...progressive" development in the West, such as new forms of technology...compulsory military service in Prussia in 1813 was "gender therapy...time (or place) in the modern West, then, can masculinity really...
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The Speller Expelled: Disciplining the Common Reader in Canada West
Journal article by Bruce Curtis; Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 22, 1985
Subjects: Anthropology, Sociology
...reading instruction adopted by the state in Canada West was taken from select schools in Prussia. On his educational tour of 1844-5, Egerton...to Ryerson ( 1847 ), reading was taught in Prussia with the aid of familiar object lessons, and...
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Discourses on and of Aids in West Germany, 1986-90
Journal article by James W. Jones; Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 2, 1992
Subjects: Sex Customs--History, Sexology
...discourses of AIDS that gay men in West Germany have created over...discourses of AIDS within the West German gay community in its...Sprachbazillus , p. 99). Prussia (the antithesis of Bavaria) becomes a metaphor for West Berlin. As we have seen...
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The Kingdom of Prussia Is Founded
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 51, January 2001
Subjects: Frederick II, King of Prussia--Biography, Prussia--History
...though the Poles annexed part of Prussia in the following century, leaving the Knights with East Prussia. Meanwhile Germans had conquered the Brandenburg area to the west and the margraves, or marcher...Both Brandenburg and East Prussia fell under control of the Hohenzollern...
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Remember Prussia?
Magazine article by William Anthony Hay; The National Interest, September 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (Book)--Book reviews
Remember Prussia? by William Anthony Hay Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (Cambridge, MA: Belknap...eventually regained their independence. Prussia, however, met the fate of which Kipling...
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Prussia 1701 a European Affair
Magazine article by Daniel Snowman; History Today, Vol. 51, May 2001
Subjects: Berlin, Germany--Historic sites, Exhibitions--Appreciation, Palaces--Exhibitions, Prussia--History
PRUSSIA 1701 A EUROPEAN AFFAIR. by...Tegel airport in the north-west of the city, keep an eye on...the 300th anniversary of `Prussia. I have to word that carefully...crowned Frederick I, King in Prussia, in far-off Konigsberg...
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East or West? with This Historical Meditation on Russian Identity, the Late W. Bruce Lincoln Secures His Place as One of the Leading Historians of His Generation
Magazine article by Lee Congdon; World and I, Vol. 16, October 2001
Subjects: Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia (Book)
...being to open a window on the West? In attempting to point the...more barbarous than that of the West. Peter the Great may have sought...with Frederick the Great of Prussia and Joseph II of Austria, she...decided to shut the window on the West. And so, despite a youthful...
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The Jewish West Indies
Magazine article by Norman Berdichevsky; World and I, Vol. 22, November 2007
Subjects: Caribbean Islands--History, Danish history, Jews--History, Jews--Influence
...formative years in the Danish West Indies wee Judah Benjamin...attracted many Jews of the small West Indian islands. The lure of...economic decline for the Danish West Indies and the eventual drift...disastrous defeat in the 1864 against Prussia and Austria made the Caribbean...
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East Is East and West Is West, but Will the Twain Ever Meet?
Newspaper article by Erik Kirschbaum; The Washington Times, July 28, 1996
Subjects: Berlin, Germany
...communists are loathed in the west. While the economic gap between...state that surrounds the city. West Berlin voters, by contrast...700 years as the heartland of Prussia, history was no match for the...initial reluctance as well in west Berlin, which had been a proud...
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Gem of the North; St. Petersburg Reclaims Its Glory as Russia's 'Window to the West'
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 27, 2003
Subjects: Pushkin, Alexander
...are well-dressed; as in the West, black leather and down coats...goes, can be recognized in the West by their well-turned ankles...1861. Across a wide boulevard west of the cathedral lies Decembrists...wheedled from King Frederick I of Prussia. The amber originally came...
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How Poland's West Was Won; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 12, 2011
How Polands West Was Won; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Byline...Szczecin, while the Poles were to get East Prussia with the port of Kaliningrad (Konigsberg). But Stalin demanded East Prussia be annexed to the USSR as he required Kaliningrad...
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How Poland's West Was Won
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 12, 2011
How Polands West Was Won. Byline: Compiled by Charles Legge...Szczecin, while the Poles were to get East Prussia with the port of Kaliningrad (Konigsberg). But Stalin demanded East Prussia be annexed to the USSR as he required Kaliningrad...
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Analysis; Pakistan, a Country the West Can't Ignore
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 14, 2007
Subjects: Musharraf, Pervez
...Analysis; Pakistan, a Country the West Cant Ignore. Byline: SIMON...Pakistan is a country the West cannot take its eyes off. Just...paraphrase Frederick the Great of Prussia, saying Pakistan is not a country...based in the volatile North West Frontier Province (NWFP...
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encyclopedia articles on: West Prussia  - 66 results

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West Prussia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WEST PRUSSIA Ger. Westpreussen, former province...Treaty of Versailles (1919) gave most of West Prussia to Poland (see Polish Corridor ) and...environs a free city. The remainder of West Prussia was divided between the Prussian province...
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Prussia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Westphalia . (Grenzmark Posen West Prussia was sometimes considered a 14th...part of Poland (later known as West Prussia) and bordering on the Baltic Sea...organized into the province of West Prussia , and the original Prussia became...
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East Prussia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...conquered the region of East Prussia from the Borussi, or...Pomerelia (later a part of West Prussia ) and Ermeland to Poland...Conference (1945), East Prussia was divided by two transfers...permanent by treaties between West Germany and Poland and...
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Pomerania
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...first Polish partition (1772), when it passed to Prussia and was constituted into the province of West Prussia . In 1919 part of West Prussia was given to Poland (see Polish Corridor ). After the outbreak (1939) of World War II, Germany...
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Hohenzollern , German Princely Family
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1701 his son was crowned "king in Prussia" as Frederick I and at the Peace...was recognized (1713) as king of Prussia. The royal title was a new symbol...Maria Theresa and acquired (1772) West Prussia and Ermeland from the first partition...
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