@inbook{da4f9e9582a44889b45a19f734c66ba6,
title = "German-Annexed Alsace and Imperial Germany: A Process of Colonisation?",
abstract = "This chapter explores German-annexed Alsace after 1871 to probe the viability of the notion internal colonialism with respect to the relationship between Alsace and (Prusso-)Germany. After the Frankfurt Treaty that formally ended the Franco-Prussian war, Alsace formed part of the so-called Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine, a {\textquoteleft}state{\textquoteright} that {\textquoteleft}belonged{\textquoteright} to the German Reich and never gained full emancipation as one of Germany{\textquoteright}s federal states. Alsatians were in their vast majority German-speaking; however, their culture contained many French elements, and, most importantly, they did not want to become Germans, a recalcitrance that was strengthened by the fact that they were denied a plebiscite on the question whether or not they consented to being annexed by Germany.",
keywords = "European History, Federal Council, French Language, Internal Colonialism, National Identity",
author = "Detmar Klein",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014, Detmar Klein.",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1057/9781137450753\_6",
language = "English",
series = "Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "92--108",
booktitle = "Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies",
address = "United Kingdom",
}