Title
Noble Nationalists : The Transformation of the Bohemian Aristocracy / Eagle Glassheim.
ISBN
9780674272927
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2005]
Copyright
©2005
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (316 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674272927 doi
Call Number
DB2178.7 .G59 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
943.71/024
Summary
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 Habsburg Bohemian Crownlands. With the Empire's demise in 1918, the once powerful Bohemian nobility quickly became a target of the nationalist revolution sweeping the new Czechoslovak state. Eagle Glassheim traces the evolving efforts of the nobles to define their place in this revolutionary new order. Nobles saw little choice but to ally with Czech and German national parties, initially in the hopes of assuaging radical land reform. Yet they retained aristocratic political and social traditions that continued to shape their national identities after 1918. Some moved toward a hybrid national identification, embracing a form of German internationalism and a vision of pan-European unity that led many to support Hitler's expansionist efforts in the late 1930s. Others trumpeted their new-found Czech nationalism in resisting the Nazi occupation. Noble Nationalists offers valuable insights on the nationalization of a conservative political elite, as well as on the national and social revolutions that recast Central Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
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
