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Author Wingfield, Nancy M. (Nancy Meriwether)

Title Flag wars and stone saints : how the Bohemian lands became Czech / Nancy M. Wingfield.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

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 Moore Stacks  DB2176 .W56 2007    Available  ---
Description xviii, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-343) and index.
Contents Imagining the emperor : statues of Joseph II as sites of German identity -- The battle joined : protesting the Badeni language ordinances -- The Moravians compromise? Czechs, Germans, and the question of a second Czech university -- Centers and peripheries : the Francis Joseph jubilees -- National myths and the consolidation of the Czechoslovak state -- Pomp and circumstances : commemorations and the construction of national memory -- The politics of sound : "talkies" and anti-German demonstrations in Prague -- The attempt to construct a German community -- The politics of memory in postwar Czechoslovakia.
Subject Nationalism -- Czechoslovakia -- History.
Nationalism.
Czechoslovakia.
History.
Germans -- Czechoslovakia -- History.
Germans.
Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Czechoslovakia.
Ethnicity -- Political aspects.
Collective memory -- Czechoslovakia.
Collective memory.
Popular culture -- Czechoslovakia.
Popular culture.
Myth -- Political aspects -- Czechoslovakia.
Myth -- Political aspects.
Myth.
ISBN 9780674025820 alkaline paper
0674025822 alkaline paper