Description

• Title:
  Nationality issues on Polish maps prepared for the Paris Peace Conference 1919-1920
• Creator:
  Barwiński, Marek
• Contributor:
  Uniwersytet Łódzki, Wydział Nauk Geograficznych;
  marek.barwinski@geo.uni.lodz.pl
• Description:
  The military and political outcome of World War I, and the deliberations of the Paris Peace Conference, offered a real chance for the rebirth of Polish statehood. A key issue was the justification of Poland’s future territorial shape, in which ethnic issues played a significant role alongside historical, economic and strategic criteria. The aim of this paper is to show and discuss selected archival nationality maps, often of an expert nature, produced by Polish scholars for the purpose of negotiating the territorial extent of Poland during the Paris Peace Conference. To what extent were they an attempt at an objective representation of the national reality of the Polish territory, and to what a subjective perception and experience of space by the authors of the maps? What were the aims and ideas of their creators, what did they want to achieve? To what extent did the political reality of the time determine their behaviour?;
  The text was prepared as part of the grant Shaping the borders of Independent Poland in the light of cartographic documents, implemented under the program of the Minister of Science and Higher Education entitled “On the Trails of Independent Poland” (2018–2023), project no. 01SPN17003218.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 ;
  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Międzynarodowe
• Date:
  2024.01.22;
  2023.01.20
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Polish Geographical Society. Cartographic Division
• Relation:
  Polish Cartographical Review;1;
  55
• Subject:
  nationality maps;
  ethnic cartography;
  distribution of Polish population;
  Paris Peace Conference
• Identifier:
  0324-8321;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/49885 ;
  2450-6966;
  10.2478/pcr-2023-0009
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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  seek permission
• Type:
  image