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you seem to be one of the few who actually know something about it and it is great to read.

has your ph.d. been published? if yes, it would be great if you could send me the publishing information via email.

thanks.

by jandsm on Mon Aug 8th, 2005 at 05:19:28 PM EST
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Thanks. Unfortunately it's not finished. The draft is done and I'm now rewriting it with a department set deadline of the end of the year for my defense. Then I'll get to worry about how to get a publisher willing to publish it in yet another rewritten version. The market for highly specialized academic first books being what it is I'm not looking forward to that. But I'd be happy to give you some refs on what is out there if you're really interested. I'm not the only person who noticed in the late nineties that there was this glaring hole in the historiography of the Bundesrepublik.  My topic focuses on how the expellees from Lower Silesia sought to maintain their local identities once in West Germany and on how the Polish settlers in Wroclaw/Breslau sought to create one of their own, the interaction between the two processes and the similiarities of government/social/academic action in these two very different socio-political systems. (I couldn't focus on expellees from Breslau only due to the nature of the archival sources)
by MarekNYC on Tue Aug 9th, 2005 at 12:22:08 AM EST
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thanks for your insights, it's really fascinating.

And good luck with your thesis publication. My chances of being published were shot down because I got caught in a fight between two "churches" (ideological factions) in a long running economic debate, and one of the professors in my jury felt that I leaned too much to the other side (no matter that the other side thought the same) and, as he was the editor of the relevant collection where my thesis could have been published, he killed it (and also prevented me from receiving the unanimous "félicitations du jury").

So my PhD was only ever read by a dozen people. As I had decided to leave academia (too much petty infighting), it did not bother me too much, but it's a pity. I'm quite proud of what I wrote!

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Aug 9th, 2005 at 06:29:07 AM EST
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