SLOVAKIA IN HISTORY by Mikulas Teich (Editor), Dusan Kovac (Editor), Martin David Brown (Editor) ( 9780521802536 )

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Title:

SLOVAKIA IN HISTORY

By:

Mikulas Teich (Editor), Dusan Kovac (Editor), Martin David Brown (Editor)

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Hardback

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0521802539

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9780521802536

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

3 February, 2011

Pages:

434

Description:

Unique exploration of the key moments and themes in Slovakia's history, from its ninth-century origins to its rebirth in 1993.

Synopsis:

Until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia's identity seemed inextricably linked with that of the former state. This book explores the key moments and themes in the history of Slovakia from the Duchy of Nitra's ninth-century origins to the establishment of independent Slovakia at midnight 1992-3. Leading scholars chart the gradual ethnic awakening of the Slovaks during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and examine how Slovak national identity took shape with the codification of standard literary Slovak in 1843 and the subsequent development of the Slovak national movement. They show how, after a thousand years of Magyar-Slovak coexistence, Slovakia became part of the new Czechoslovak state from 1918-39, and shed new light on its role as a Nazi client state as well as on the postwar developments leading up to full statehood in the aftermath of the collapse of communism in 1989. There is no comparable book in English on the subject.

Illustrations:

19 b/w illus. 5 maps

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Cambridge University Press

Prizes:

Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2011

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