scholarly journals Integration through Sports? Polish Migrants in the Ruhr, Germany

2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (S1) ◽  
pp. 275-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diethelm Blecking
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Weimar Republic ◽  
Historical Case Study ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Mining Areas ◽  
Football Clubs

AbstractSport, and football in particular, is described in socio-political discourse as an effective way to integrate immigrants. This thesis will be tested by means of a case study examining Polish migration to the mining areas of the Ruhr from the 1870s. It will be shown that, up until World War I, the sport participated in by Polish miners served, in contrast, as a means of nationalization, ethnicizing, and as an aid to furthering Polish ethnic identity. Only during the Weimar Republic were football clubs in the Ruhr actually used as a vehicle for integration and assimilation for males among the Polish minority. After World War II, memories of these footballers from among the Polish minority were either repressed or reduced to folklore. Based on this historical case study, sport appears in principle to be ambivalent between its ability to form “we” groups and the building of bridges between nationalities.

ACCOUNTANTS' RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE INFORMATION THEY REPORT: AN HISTORICAL CASE STUDY OF FINANCIAL INFORMATION

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen J. Lippman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Time Of Arrival ◽  
Historical Case Study ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Income Statement ◽  
Intended Use

This paper describes an instructional case that uses historical documentation to enable the reader to consider his/her own responsibility for the preparation and reporting of information. In this case, the reader is provided a summarized income statement. Then, as detailed information about the financial statement is introduced, the reader is asked to consider the ethics of preparing and using the statement. The financial statement represents a projected income statement for a Holocaust camp prisoner during World War II. The statement includes anticipated revenue from the selling of body parts upon the prisoner's death, estimated as nine months from the time of arrival at the camp. Usage of the case should develop a reader's understanding that accountants' responsibility for the preparation of information should not be separate from what the information reports or the intended use of the information.

Unity or Identity? European Disintegration and WWI Culture Conflict

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conor Hannigan
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
World War I ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Historical Case Study ◽  
Culture Conflict ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Anglo American

A resurgence of nationalism in Europe risks undermining the European integration project. Social Psychology and International Relations (IR) literature have explored how identities are created and strengthened through a process called ‘othering’ in which groups define themselves in opposition to others. Several variables contributing to this resurgence of nationalism exist, but ‘othering’ as a means of strengthening group identity appears to be among the most salient factors. This paper draws on previous academic research and uses a historical case study to argue that ‘othering’ in times of trouble and insecurity is not a new phenomenon. My research has focused on the changing public opinion among American citizens of English, German, and Irish descent during World War I. The methodology for this research required surveying primary and secondary sources published during the period August 1914 – April 1917 in order to glean evidence of changing public opinion of specifically the English diaspora. Throughout this process, it became apparent that a resurfacing of cultural and civilizational identities among the diasporas were often the source of changing opinion. Moreover, attempts by Irish and German-Americans to discredit English civilization and the Entente cause during the war actually served to strengthen Anglo-American ties and identities. This case study illustrates how the process of ‘othering’ may be used to bolster a sense of group identity in times of insecurity. This is something that appears to be occurring in Europe and has begun a process of European disintegration. 

Crises and Responses: Government Policies and the Machine-Building Cartels in Hungary, 1919–1949

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-131
Author(s):  
MÁRIA HIDVÉGI
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Machine Building ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
World War ◽  
East Central Europe

What impact have government policies had on the private sector’s response to economic crises, in particular on its decisions for restructuring and adaptation? The Hungarian machine-building industry from 1919 to 1949 provides an interesting case study for these interrelations between business and politics. The study focuses on the role of cartels in organizing responses to crises. The case study is based on a survey of the cartel agreements and investigates why cartels provided solutions only to short-term crises, if they provided solutions at all. The hypothesis is that government policies played a substantial part in the story, as they did not provide enough incentives for coordinated responses to structural change. The years 1919 to 1949 encompass the crises caused by the territorial and political change in East Central Europe after World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II and its aftermath. Depicting the responses of the machine-building industry through the experience of one of its key companies and its cartels—Ganz & Co.—this article analyzes the influence of the institutional framework on short- and long-term adaptation to crises.

Archives and Inference: Documentary Evidence in Case Study Research and the Debate over U.S. Entry into World War II

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 84-126
Author(s):  
Christopher Darnton
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Source Selection ◽  
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Did Franklin Delano Roosevelt escalate confliict with Japan and Germany before Pearl Harbor, or did he attempt to avoid war? To what extent did U.S. public opinion influence these decisions? And, crucially, how do we know? Scholars offer diametrically opposed analyses of this historical case, bearing directly on international relations theories regarding the effects of democracy on war and foreign policy. In this debate and the broader security studies field, scholars increasingly employ published and archival primary sources. Because researchers lack a clear template for descriptive and causal inference with documentary evidence, though, such work is indeterminate and ultimately unpersuasive. How can political scientists approach archives and primary documents more effectively and efficiently? Above all, case studies need stronger research designs and clearer source selection strategies, not just more authoritative documents. A critical review of the sources cited in recent scholarship in the debate leading to the United States' entry into World War II, and a replication analysis of a key portion of the documentary record, underscores this need for improved research design and buttresses eight guidelines for the selection and analysis of textual evidence in case study research.

Defenders of Patriotism or Mothers of Fascism? The Daughters of the American Revolution, Antiradicalism, and Un-Americanism in the Interwar Period

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 943-969
Author(s):  
SIMON WENDT
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Women's Organizations ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
Women’S Organizations

Focussing on the nationalist women's organization Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), this article seeks to make an important contribution to the historiography of un-Americanism by exploring its gendered dimensions as well as its ambiguities in the interwar period. By the early 1920s, the DAR boasted a membership of 140,000. It was during this period that the organization became the vanguard of a post-World War I antiradical movement that sought to protect the United States from the dangers of “un-American” ideologies, chief among them socialism and communism. Given the DAR's visibility and prominence during the interwar period, the organization constitutes a useful case study to analyze notions of un-Americanism between World War I and World War II. A thorough analysis of the Daughters' rhetoric and activities in the 1920s and 1930s reveals three things: (1) the importance of gender in understanding what patriotic women's organizations such as the DAR feared when they warned of “un-Americanism”; (2) the antimodern impulse of nationalist women's efforts to combat un-American activities, which is closely related to its gender dimension; and (3) the ambiguity of the term “un-American,” since it was used by the DAR and its liberal detractors alike to criticize each other.

The Philippine currency board arrangement, 1945–48: a case of deflationary bias?

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
MALCOLM L. TREADGOLD
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Historical Case Study ◽  
Currency Board ◽  
World War ◽  
Demand For Money ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Growing Economy ◽  
Second World

This article provides an historical case study of the hypothesis that a currency board imparts a deflationary bias to a growing economy. The hypothesis is based on the argument that, while economic growth increases the demand for money, the expansion of the money supply in a currency board system is constrained by the balance of payments. After examining the origins, development and criticisms of the deflationary bias hypothesis, the article investigates the experience of the Philippines during its economic recovery from the devastation of the Second World War. The evidence suggests that, under the currency board arrangement then in place, deflationary pressure emerged in the manner predicted by the hypothesis.

In Search of Civil Society: Disentangling Associational Practices and Civil Society Conceptions in Germany

2020 ◽  
pp. 089976402098391
Author(s):  
Peter C. Weber
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
World War I ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Historical Case Study ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Mass Politics ◽  
Political Associations ◽  
Democratic Systems ◽  
Political Spectrum

The historical case study of German associations during World War I highlights the limits of sociability in times of political polarization. At the war’s beginning, German elites supported political associations that welcomed the entire political spectrum, thus radically breaking with associations that had developed along political, social, and religious dividing lines. The article shows how the inclusive sociability that the common cause of the war initially spurred failed to withstand the pressures of mass politics, extreme sociopolitical fragmentation, and the new republican institutions. The discrediting of associations as sources of inclusive sociability paved the path to conscious efforts to educate German citizens and political professionals to the working of democratic systems. The analysis suggests a conceptualization of civil society that relies on explicit strategies, such as political education, to cultivate the political conduct that modern democracies require, replacing the faith in associations as indirect sources of democratic governance.

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