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Author : Konštantín Čulen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 0965193225
Hardcover book with Dusk jacket cover (front and back) depicting scenes of Slovak life in America. The dust jacket has not yet been designed.
Author : Mikuláš Teich,Dušan Kováč,Martin D. Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139494946
Until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia's identity seemed inextricably linked with that of the former state. This book explores the key moments and themes in the history of Slovakia from the Duchy of Nitra's ninth-century origins to the establishment of independent Slovakia at midnight 1992–3. Leading scholars chart the gradual ethnic awakening of the Slovaks during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and examine how Slovak national identity took shape with the codification of standard literary Slovak in 1843 and the subsequent development of the Slovak national movement. They show how, after a thousand years of Magyar-Slovak coexistence, Slovakia became part of the new Czechoslovak state from 1918–39, and shed new light on its role as a Nazi client state as well as on the postwar developments leading up to full statehood in the aftermath of the collapse of communism in 1989. There is no comparable book in English on the subject.
Author : Balázs Trencsényi,Michal Kopeček
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9786155211249
67 texts, including hymns, manifestos, articles or extracts from lengthy studies exemplify the relation between Romanticism and the national movements in the cultural space ranging from Poland to the Ottoman Empire. Each text is accompanied by a presentation of the author, and by an analysis of the context in which the respective work was born.The end of the 18th century and first decades of the 19th were in many respects a watershed period in European history. The ideas of the Enlightenment and the dramatic convulsions of the French Revolution had shattered the old bonds and cast doubt upon the established moral and social norms of the old corporate society. In culture a new trend, Romanticism, was successfully asserting itself against Classicism and provided a new key for a growing number of activists to 're-imagine' their national community, reaching beyond the traditional frameworks of identification (such as the 'political nation', regional patriotism, or Christian universalism). The collection focuses on the interplay of Romantic cultural discourses and the shaping of national ideology throughout the 19th century, tracing the patterns of cultural transfer with Western Europe as well as the mimetic competition of national ideologies within the region.
Author : Stanislav J. Kirschbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Slovakia
ISBN : 0333681029
In this groundbreaking work, Stanislav Kirschbaum examines the Slovak contribution to European civilization in the Middle Ages, the development of a specifically Slovak consciousness in the nineteenth century, the Slovak struggle for autonomy in Czech-dominated Czechoslovakia created by the Treaty of Versailles, the problems that the first Slovak Republic faced in a Nazi-controlled Europe, and the Slovak reaction to the communist regime. Kirschbaum completes this fascinating history by examining the debate about the future of Slovakia and the events that led to independence.
Author : Peter P. Jurchak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Czechoslovakia
ISBN : UVA:X001405278
Author : Joseph A. Mikuš
Publisher : Washington : Three Continents Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Slovak Republic (Czechoslovakia)
ISBN : UOM:39015005020998
Author : M. Mark Stolarik
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633861547
The essays in the book compare the Czech Republic and Slovakia since the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993. The papers deal with the causes of the divorce and discuss the political, economic and social developments in the new countries. This is the only English-language volume that presents the synoptic findings of leading Czech, Slovak, and North American scholars in the field.The authors include two former Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, eight leading scholars (four Czechs and four Slovaks), and eight knowledgeable commentators from North America. The most significant new insight is that in spite of predictions by various pundits in the Western World that Czechia would flourish after the breakup and Slovakia would languish, the opposite has happened. While the Czech Republic did well in its early years, it is now languishing while Slovakia, which had a rough start, is now doing very well. Anyone interested in the history of the Czech and Slovak Republics over the last twenty years will find gratification in reading this book.
Author : James Ramon Felak
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822976943
Slovak nationalist sentiment has been a constant presence in the history of Czechoslovakia, coming to head in the torrent of nationalism that resulted in the dissolution of the Republic on January 1, 1993. James Felak examines a parallel episode in the 1930s with Slovak nationalists achieved autonomy for Slovakia-but “at the price” of the loss of East Central Europe's only parliamentary democracy and the strengthening of Nazi power. The tensions between Czechs and Slovaks date back to the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918. Slovaks, who differed sharply in political tradition, social and economic development, and culture, and resented being governed by a centralized administration run from the Czech capital of Prague, formed the Slovak People's Party, led by Roman Catholic priest Ankrej Hlinka. Drawing heavily on Czech and Slovak archives, Felak provides a balanced history of the party, offering unprecedented insight into intraparty factionalism and behind-the-scenes maneuvering surrounding SSP's policy decisions.
Author : Marcel Jesenský
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137449641
The first English-language monograph on the Slovak-Polish border in 1918-47 explores the interplay of politics, diplomacy, moral principles and self-determination. This book argues that the failure to reconcile strategic objectives with territorial claims could cost a higher price than the geographical size of the disputed region would indicate.
Author : Anton Špiesz,Dušan Čaplovič
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nationalism
ISBN : 9780865165007
Little contemporary scholarship on Slovak history exists in English. This title fills an important gap in historiography about events throughout Central Europe over the last fourteen centuries. It presents the history of Slovakia in terms of the latest scholarship and in the context of on-going historical debate about Slovak history and its presentation in post-socialist world. Extensive footnotes by scholars, 350 color illustrations, Index, Bibliography, Foreword and Epilogue.
Author : Stanislav J. Kirschbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002602506
A history of Slovakia from prehistory to the 1990s. It includes a description of the development of a Slovakian consciousness, from the 19th century under the colonial rule of the Hungarians, through the merger into Czechoslovakia, Nazi-sponsored independence, the Russian invasion and independence.
Author : Peter Brock
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1976-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442650862
The Slovaks lived under Hungarian rule for centuries, with no clear sense of political separateness, preserving Slovak as their spoken language, but using Czech as their written language. In the last decades of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries, the efforts made by clerical intellectuals to develop a language more closely attuned to Slovak needs led to the rise of Slovak nationalism. The Slovak National Awakening describes the three major stages in the development of national consciousness. In the 1780s Catholic intellectuals began to write in the vernacular; a Catholic priest, Bernolàk, produced a Slovak grammar and dictionary and an influential treatise in defence of Slovak as a language separate from Czech. However, while Slovak ethnic distinctness was being asserted, the sense of belonging to the Hungarian nation was not questioned. The next steps were taken by the Protestant intelligentsia, who had been pro-Czech since the Reformation. Influenced by German concepts of linguistic nationalism, they began to assert Slovak cultural and linguistic separateness, but still within the political framework of the Hungarian State. The third stage in the Slovak Awakening came in the mid-1840s when a group of young Protestant intellectuals, led by L’udovít Štúr, rejected their predecessors’ ‘Czechoslovakism’ and advocated a Slovak language and a Slovak nationality. In 1851, the Catholic Bernolákites and the Protestant Štúrites were able to agree on the language that became the basis of modern Slovak. This study of the relation between language and nationalism will appeal to specialists in European history and will be of interest for the light it throws on modern separatists and anti-imperialist movements.
Author : John T. Sabol,Lisa A. Alzo
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0738552429
Cleveland's Slovaks can best be characterized as survivors. Many survived ethnic persecution and poverty so they could have a chance at something better. Beginning with a small core of immigrants seeking work aboveground rather than in the coal mines of neighboring states, Cleveland's Slovak community grew through a giant chain migration. Their neighborhoods flourished close to their jobs and their churches. Many of the ancestors of today's Slovaks came to the United States classified as Hungarians. In their hearts, though, they knew what they were and what language they spoke. They held on to their native language even as they learned English and unwaveringly encouraged their children to strive for the opportunity America offered. According to the 2000 census, 93,500 northeast Ohioans claim Slovak heritage. The photographs in Cleveland Slovaks show their neighborhoods and family life and give readers an appreciation of the community's legacy.
Author : J. Lánicek,Jan Lání?ek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137317476
Covering the period between the Munich Agreement and the Communist Coup in February 1948, this groundbreaking work offers a novel, provocative analysis of the political activities and plans of the Czechoslovak exiles during and after the war years, and of the implementation of the plans in liberated Czechoslovakia after 1945.
Author : J. Lánicek,Jan Lání?ek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137317476
Covering the period between the Munich Agreement and the Communist Coup in February 1948, this groundbreaking work offers a novel, provocative analysis of the political activities and plans of the Czechoslovak exiles during and after the war years, and of the implementation of the plans in liberated Czechoslovakia after 1945.
