Affiliation:
1. Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences , Gabčíkova 2362/10 , Prague 182 00 , Czech Republic
Abstract
Abstract
This article examines the rise of the nascent intellectual and business bourgeois elites of the Czechs and Slovaks, focusing on the transformation of their cultural program into a political one. The article takes a comparative approach and investigates the relationship of political programs to prepolitical identities, zooming in on the parameters of a broader Czech and Slovak state identity, including the role of the center (Vienna, Pest, Prague, or Pressburg) or language (analyzing both its unifying and divisive roles in bridging the ideas and visions of the emerging local elites). As I argue, in the case of the Czech and Slovak nationalist movements, we can observe a transition from a prepolitical to the political program in the mid-19th century itself.
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Sociology and Political Science,History,Cultural Studies
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