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.