Guardians of the Nation : Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria / Pieter M. Judson.
2007
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Title
Guardians of the Nation : Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria / Pieter M. Judson.
Author
Judson, Pieter M., author.
ISBN
9780674274327
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2007]
Copyright
©2007
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (332 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674274327 doi
Call Number
DB47
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.5409436/09034
Summary
In the decades leading up to World War I, nationalist activists in imperial Austria labored to transform linguistically mixed rural regions into politically charged language frontiers. They hoped to remake local populations into polarized peoples and their villages into focal points of the political conflict that dominated the Habsburg Empire. But they often found bilingual inhabitants accustomed to cultural mixing who were stubbornly indifferent to identifying with only one group. Using examples from several regions, including Bohemia and Styria, Pieter Judson traces the struggle to consolidate the loyalty of local populations for nationalist causes. Whether German, Czech, Italian, or Slovene, the nationalists faced similar and unexpected difficulties in their struggle to make nationalism relevant to local concerns and to bind people permanently to one side. Judson examines the various strategies of the nationalist activists, from the founding of minority language schools to the importation of colonists from other regions, from projects to modernize rural economies to the creation of a tourism industry. By 1914, they succeeded in projecting a public perception of nationalist frontiers, but largely failed to nationalize the populations. Guardians of the Nation offers a provocative challenge to standard accounts of the march of nationalism in modern Europe.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Note on Language Use
Maps
ONE Languages, Territories, Politicians, and People
TWO Schoolhouse Fortresses
THREE Encounters on the Rural Frontier
FOUR Reluctant Colonists
FIVE Tourism to the Rescue
SIX Violence in the Village
SEVEN The First World War and Beyond
Abbreviations
Notes
Index
Contents
Preface
Note on Language Use
Maps
ONE Languages, Territories, Politicians, and People
TWO Schoolhouse Fortresses
THREE Encounters on the Rural Frontier
FOUR Reluctant Colonists
FIVE Tourism to the Rescue
SIX Violence in the Village
SEVEN The First World War and Beyond
Abbreviations
Notes
Index