Beschreibung:
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Hungary was the site of a national awakening. While Hungarian-speaking Hungarians sought to assimilate Hungary's ethnic minorities into a new idea of nationhood, the country's Slavs instead imagined a proud multi-ethnic and multi-lingual state whose citizens could freely use their native languages. The Slavs saw themselves as Hungarian citizens speaking Pan-Slav and Czech dialects - and yet were the origins of what would become in the twentieth century a new Slovak nation. How then did Slovak nationalism emerge from multi-ethnic Hungarian loyalism, Czechoslovakism and Pan-Slavism? Here Alexander Maxwell presents the story of how and why Slovakia came to be.
List of FiguresNote on ConventionsAcknowledgements1. National Awakening and Contingency2. The Hungarian Context3. Hungaro-Slavism: Imagining a Slavic Hungary4. Slovak Theories of Dual Nationality5. The Slavic Language6. Linguistic Czechoslovakism Before 18437. ?udovít stúr and Slovak Tribalism8. The Dialect Argument and Slovak Literacy9. Czechoslovakia as a Slovakizing StateNotesBibliographyIndex