Product Overview
Nationalism has been a driving force in the still unfinished era of nation-building in East Central Europe. Conventionally traced to the late Enlightenment and the French Revolution, the rise of nationalism colored nineteenth-century understandings of democracy and provided fuel for aspirations to political independence. This volume brings together scholars from eight countries and focuses on nation-building and nationalism in East-Central Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is organized around the following themes: understandings of nation, understandings of nationalism, changes in nationalism, typologies of nationalism, the urban-rural cleavage, and the role played by intellectuals and other activists in the development of national movements.
Contents:
Foreword
Sabrina P. Ramet
Controversies Concerning Nation and Nationalism: An Introduction
Linda Frey and Marsha Frey
The French Revolution and Internationalism: The Road Not Taken in Eastern Europe
George F. Jewsbury
Russia's Unintended Role in the Maintenance of Romanian Nationality in Bessarabia/Moldova
Paul Robert Magocsi
Galicia: A European Land
Hugh LeCaine Agnew
Dilemmas of Liberal Nationalism: Czechs and Germans in Bohemia and the Revolution of 1848
Jan Havranek
Nebeneinander zweier Prager Universitþten, 1882-1918
Peter Mentzel
Karl Renner's Ideas on Personal Autonomy: The Personalprinzip and the Millet System
Dusan Kovac
The Slovak Political Agenda in the 19th and Early 20th Century: From L'udovit Stur to Czech-Slovak Statehood
Zsuzsa L. Nagy
Liberal Nationalism and the Nation-State: The Case of a Hungarian Political Writer, Gusztav Beksics
Horst Haselsteiner
Hungary-Pannonian Switzerland? Mihailo Polit-Desanaic's Perceptions on a Solution to the Nationalities Question in Hungary
Sabrina P. Ramet
Ante Staraevic: Liberal Champion of a "Citizen's State"
Maria Todorova
The Absence of Nationalism in Serbian Politics before 1840 Gale Stokes Creating a National Hero: Vassil Levski in Bulgarian Public Memory
Gerasimos Augustinos
Configuring the Ethnic Nation: Macedonia in Greek Cultural Politics from the Balkan Wars to the Cold War
James Ramon Felak
The Slovak Question in Czechoslovak Politics, 1945-1948
Peter Mentzel
Peter Sugar's Contribution to East-Central European Studies: An Assessment.
