Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe

By: Pieter M. Judson (Editor), Marsha L. Rozenblit (Editor)

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The hundred years between the revolutions of 1848 and the population transfers of the mid-twentieth century saw the nationalization of culturally complex societies in East Central Europe. This fact has variously been explained in terms of modernization, state building and nation-building theories, each of which treats the process of nationalization as something inexorable, a necessary component of modernity. Although more recently social scientists gesture to the contingencies that may shape these larger developments, this structural approach makes scholars far less attentive to the "hard work" (ideological, political, social) undertaken by individuals and groups at every level of society who tried themselves to build "national" societies. The essays in this volume make us aware of how complex, multi-dimensional and often contradictory this nationalization process in East Central Europe actually was. The authors document attempts and failures by nationalist politicians, organizations, activists and regimes from 1848 through 1948 to give East-Central Europeans a strong sense of national self-identification. They remind us that only the use of dictatorial powers in the 20th century could actually transform the fantasy of nationalization into a reality, albeit a brutal one.

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"...an exciting and fascinating volume." · Geschichte und Region/Storia e Regio

"The essays in this volume are well framed theoretically; as a matter of equal importance, they are based on in-depth archival research, which gives texture, nuance, and authority to their conclusions. The book is recommended particularly for those who wish an introduction to the work of a dynamic group of scholars who have amply demonstrated the contingent, historically grounded, and diverse nature of nationalism." · H-German

"...insightful and informative....the essays in this volume contribute to a better understanding of nationalism and nation-building in multicultural East Central Europe." · German Studies Review

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Preface
Introduction : constructing nationalities in East Central Europe	p. 1
From tolerated aliens to citizen-soldiers : Jewish military service in the Era of Joseph II	p. 19
The revolution in symbols : Hungary in 1848-1849	p. 37
Nothing wrong with my bodily fluids : gymnastics, biology, and nationalism in the Germanies before 1871	p. 50
Between empire and nation : the Bohemian nobility, 1880-1918	p. 61
The Bohemian Oberammergau : nationalist tourism in the Austrian empire	p. 89
The sacred and the profane : religion and nationalism in the Bohemian lands, 1880-1920	p. 107
All for one! One for all! : the federation of Slavic Sokols and the failure of neo-slavism	p. 126
Staging Habsburg patriotism : dynastic loyalty and the 1898 imperial jubilee	p. 141
Arbiters of allegiance : Austro-Hungarian censors during World War I	p. 157
Sustaining Austrian "national" identity in crisis : the dilemma of the Jews in Habsburg Austria, 1914-1919	p. 178
"Christian Europe" and national identity in interwar Hungary	p. 192
Just what is Hungarian? : concepts of national identity in the Hungarian Film Industry, 1931-1944	p. 203
The Hungarian institute for research into the Jewish question and its participation in the expropriation and expulsion of Hungarian Jewry	p. 223
Indigenous collaboration in the government general : the case of the Sonderdienst	p. 243
Getting the small decree : Czech national honor in the aftermath of the Nazi occupation	p. 267
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