Choosing Slovakia : Slavic Hungary, the Czechoslovak language and accidental nationalism
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Choosing Slovakia : Slavic Hungary, the Czechoslovak language and accidental nationalism
（International library of political studies, 37）
Tauris Academic Studies, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
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Acknowledgements
1. National Awakening and Contingency
2. The Hungarian Context
3. Hungaro-Slavism: Imagining a Slavic Hungary
4. Slovak Theories of Dual Nationality
5. The Slavic Language
6. Linguistic Czechoslovakism Before 1843
7. ?udovit Stur and Slovak Tribalism
8. The Dialect Argument and Slovak Literacy
9. Czechoslovakia as a Slovakizing State
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