Noble Nationalists : : The Transformation of the Bohemian Aristocracy / / Eagle Glassheim.

• VerfasserIn: Glassheim, Eagle,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)

This illuminating study examines the dramatic transformation of Bohemian noble identity from the rise of mass politics in the late nineteenth century to the descent of the Iron Curtain after World War II. At the turn of the twentieth century, some 300 noble families owned over a third of the Habsbur...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• A Note on Names and Titles
• Introduction
• 1 Between Empire and Nation: The Bohemian Nobility, 1880–1918
• 2 National and Social Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 1918–1920
• 3 Nationalization of the Nobility: Noble Lobbying Strategies in the 1920s
• 4 Czech Nobles, Nationalism, and Catholic Conservatism, 1930–1939
• 5 German Internationalism and National Socialism: German Nobles in the 1930s
• 6 War and Revolution: The End of the Old Regime, 1939–1948
• Conclusion
• Abbreviations
• Appendix: Declarations of the Czech Nobility, 1938 and 1939
• Archives Consulted
• Notes
• Index