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This book analyzes the resiliency of the German community in southern Denmark in a period of national strife. It explores the experience of a small minority that was not primarily separated from its host society by visible markers of language, religion, or appearance but predominately derived its national distinction from personal self-identification. The study's findings demonstrate the significance of this community for a deeper understanding of collective identity formation

Identity in the borderlands : a conceptual introduction -- Political evolution and points of contention : the course of Sleswig history --- Both argument and building block : a history of language and culture in Sleswig -- A tale of three communities : national identification in changing times -- Identity on a personal level : Sleswig biographies during the age of nationalism -- Where the self meets the other : a comparative approach to transitional identities -- Of mind and matter : a conclusion

Dieser Aufsatz zeichnet die Geschichte der deutschen Nordschleswiger von der Herausbildung einer eigenen Identität zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts über die langanhaltenden Wirren des nationalen Konflikts bis hin zu den Herausforderungen einer zunehmend globalisierten und individualisierten Gesellschaft heute nach. In dieser Zeit waren sie Bürger in der dänischen Doppelmonarchie, in Preußen und im Deutschen Reich sowie in dem kleinen dänischen Nationalstaat, der sich nach 1864 entwickelt hatte. Ihr Selbstverständnis war immer wieder Prüfungen und Anpassungen unterworfen. Doch auch zu Beginn des einundzwanzigsten Jahrhunderts sind die deutschen Nordschleswiger ein fester Bestandteil der dänischen Gesellschaft.

This article examines the initial expansion and subsequent demise of Lutheran Protestantism in early modern Austria. Although the Protestant Reformation disrupted the medieval unity of church and state in western Europe, religion and politics remained strongly intertwined. Monarchs and dynasties became of paramount significance for the ultimate success or failure of Protestant movements. On the northern and southern edges of Western Christianity, religious homogeneity was largely retained, albeit in diametrically opposed forms. In the core of the continent, confessional differentiation proceeded more contentiously. The archetypical expression of denominational division was found in the Holy Roman Empire and especially its Habsburg patrimony. It is there one repeatedly encounters a divergence of popular and dynastic interests and an interweaving of religious and political disagreement. These conflicts also decided the fate of Austrian Protestantism.