This book addresses practices of bordering, debordering and rebordering on the territory of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy after state borders had been remapped on the negotiation tables of the Paris Peace Treaties following the First World War.

Machteld Venken is Professor of Contemporary Transnational History at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) of the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Her research interests are transnational, transregional and comparative histories of Europe; migration and borderlands; oral history; the history of families and children; and citizen science.

Steen Bo Frandsen is Professor at the Centre for Border Region Studies at the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. A regional perspective on history, culture and societies characterizes his research. His approach questions national traditions and their interpretation of political, cultural or economic relations that typically originate from a simplified centre-periphery relation.

Introduction - The dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: border making and its consequences 1. Unruly borderlands: border-making, peripheralization and layered regionalism in post-First World War Maramure¿ and the Banat 2. New state borders and (dis)loyalties to Czechoslovakia in Subcarpathian Rus, 1919-25 3. The new borders as local economic possibility? The case of post-1920 Hungary 4. The role of history and geography teaching in the building of national identity in interwar Vojvodina 5. Bohemia by the sea: establishing a Czechoslovak port in Hamburg in the interwar period 6. The traitorous national periphery: the legacy of identity politics of imperial Hungary in a new eastern metropolis of Czechoslovakia - Košice/Kassa 7. Reinforcing the border, reconfiguring identities: Polish initiatives in the Carpathians in the interwar period