The Nation in the Village : : The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848–1914 / / Keely Stauter-Halsted.
How do peasants come to think of themselves as members of a nation? The widely accepted argument is that national sentiment originates among intellectuals or urban middle classes, then "trickles down" to the working class and peasants. Keely Stauter-Halsted argues that such models overlook...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 2 maps, 1 line drawing, 11 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Roots of Nationalism in the Polish Village
- Part I. Politics in the Postemancipation Galician Village
- 1. Emancipation and Its Discontents
- 2. The Roots of Peasant Civil Society: Premodern Politics in the Galician Village
- 3. Customs in Conflict: Peasant Politics in the Viennese Reichstag and the Galician Sejm
- 4. Making Government Work: The Village Commune as a School for Political Action
- Part II. The Construction of a Peasant Pole
- 5. The Peasant as Literary and Ethnographic Trope
- 6. The Gentry Construction of Peasants: Agricultural Circles and the Resurgence of Peasant Culture
- 7. Education and the Shaping of a Village Elite
- 8. The Nation in the Village: Competing Images of Poland in Popular Culture
- 9. The Village in the Nation: Polish Peasants as a Political Force
- Conclusion: The Main Currents o f Peasant Nationalism
- Bibliography
- Index