Budweisers into Czechs and Germans A Local History of Bohemian Politics, 1848-1948

Name: Budweisers into Czechs and Germans A Local History of Bohemian Politics, 1848-1948
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ISBN: 9780691122342

ISBN-10: 0691122342

ISBN-13: 9780691122342

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jeremy King

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This history of a single town in Bohemia casts new light on nationalism in Central Europe between the Springtime of Nations in 1848 and the Cold War. Jeremy King tells the story of both German and Czech-speaking Budweis/Budaelig;jovice, which belonged to the Habsburg Monarchy until 1918, and then to Czechoslovakia, Hitler's Third Reich, and Czechoslovakia again. Residents, at first simply "Budweisers," or Habsburg subjects with mostly local loyalties, gradually became Czechs or Germans. Who became Czech, though, and who German? What did it mean to be one or the other? In answering these questions, King shows how an epochal, region-wide contest for power found expression in…

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/23/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.17" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Introduction: Budweisers into Czechs and Germans



Plolitics in Flux, 1848-1871



A More Broad and National Politics, 1871-1890



Free-for-All, 1890-1902



Toward a Multinational State, 1902-1918



Bohemian Politics Reframed, 1918-1945


Conclusion: Budweis Buried, 1945-1948


Notes


Bibliography


Index