Anmerkungen:
In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Beschreibung:
Frontmatter -- Prologue A Savvy Political Operative: Czechs Thought He Was Russian, and Russians Thought He Was Czech -- Contents -- Introduction Competing Politicizations of Ethnicity in Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia, 1848–1936 -- Map of Czechoslovakia -- Chapter 1 Austrian Prelude -- Chapter 2 Deliverance -- Chapter 3 German Rejection -- Chapter 4 Making the New Rules: Language and Autonomy -- Chapter 5 Reaffirmation of the National State -- Chapter 6 The Heyday of the Pětka and the Pětka′s Demise -- Chapter 7 German Activism -- Chapter 8 The End of the Affair -- Epilogue Roads Not Taken -- References -- Index
This book meticulously recreates the most important episodes in Czech-German relations in what is now the Czech Republic. Drawing on extensive archival research, Stephen M. Thomas depicts the formation of the Czechoslovak Republic from the ruined Austro-Hungarian empire and examines political and public life between world wars via the ethnic rivalry between Germans and Czechs. He questions the nature, legitimacy and political viability of the nation state, and especially its relationship to ethnic minorities, such as the Slovaks. Confrontational nationalism and the use of ethnicity as a political tool are no less common today than they were in the 20th century. This book’s radical contribution to studies of nationalism and ethnicity is that it juxtaposes German and Czech perspectives of power and oppression as part of the same story. This framework allows us to appreciate new complexities regarding the creation of Czechoslovakia and ponder them in 21st century terms