Kidnapped Souls National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900-1948

Name: Kidnapped Souls National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900-1948
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ISBN: 9780801477607

ISBN-10: 0801477603

ISBN-13: 9780801477607

Edition: 2011

Authors: Tara Zahra

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Throughout the nineteenth and into the early decades of the twentieth century, it was common for rural and working-class parents in the Czech-German borderlands to ensure that their children were bilingual by sending them to live with families who spoke the "other" language. As nationalism became a more potent force in Central Europe, however, such practices troubled pro-German and pro-Czech activists, who feared that the children born to their nation could literally be "lost" or "kidnapped" from the national community through such experiences and, more generally, by parents who were either flexible about national belonging or altogether indifferent to it. Highlighting this indifference to…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 7/7/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Tara Zahra is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago.