Through an Ethnic Prism : : Germans, Czechs and the Creation of Czechoslovakia / / Stephen M. Thomas (✝); ed. by Karen Alexander, Vladimir Pistalo, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.

This book meticulously recreates the most important episodes in Czech-German relations in what is now the Czech Republic. Drawing on extensive archival research, Stephen M. Thomas depicts the formation of the Czechoslovak Republic from the ruined Austro-Hungarian empire and examines political and pu...

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Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 231 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Prologue A Savvy Political Operative: Czechs Thought He Was Russian, and Russians Thought He Was Czech
  • Contents
  • Introduction Competing Politicizations of Ethnicity in Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia, 1848–1936
  • Map of Czechoslovakia
  • Chapter 1 Austrian Prelude
  • Chapter 2 Deliverance
  • Chapter 3 German Rejection
  • Chapter 4 Making the New Rules: Language and Autonomy
  • Chapter 5 Reaffirmation of the National State
  • Chapter 6 The Heyday of the Pětka and the Pětka′s Demise
  • Chapter 7 German Activism
  • Chapter 8 The End of the Affair
  • Epilogue Roads Not Taken
  • References
  • Index