Tomasz Kamusella is a lecturer at the University of St Andrews, UK.James Bjork is a senior lecturer at King’s College London, UK.Timothy Wilson is a lecturer at the University of St Andrews, UK.Anna Novikov is a research fellow at the Cologne Centre for Central and Eastern Europe, University of Cologne, Germany.

• Introduction: Between the Non-National, the National and (Post-National) Europeanness1. Upper Silesia in Modern Central Europe: On the Significance of the Non-National in the Age of Nations 2. Fatal Violence in Upper Silesia, 1918-1922 3. ‘Scoundrels’ and Desperate Mothers: Gendering German and Polish Propaganda in the Upper Silesian Plebiscite, 1919-1921 4. Bilingual Publics and Imagined Communities: The Upper Silesian Plebiscite of 1921 5. Creating a Citizen: Politics and the Education System in the Post-Plebiscite Silesian Voivodeship 6. National Indifference and National Radicalism in Weimar Upper Silesia 7. A ‘Volksdeutsche Resistance Movement?’ Local Responses to Nazi Policies Towards the ‘Nationally Indifferent’ in Eastern Upper Silesia, 1939-1945 8. Upper Silesia in the age of the ethnically homogenous nation-state, 1945-9 9. Writing Identity: The Upper Silesian Plebiscite and Uprisings in Historiography and Collective Memories

'Benefitting from deep research, essays in this collection introduce students and researchers alike to stakes surrounding national indifference in a key borderland. In conversation with each other, they will hopefully encourage continued scholarly discussion that transcends nationally partisan polemics and facilitates historical understanding about how human beings have adopted identities that transcend national categories'Andrew Demshuk, American University, Slavic Review 2018.