Slovakia in history

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Label

Slovakia in history

Statement of responsibility

edited by Mikuláš Teich, Dušan Kováč, and Martin D. Brown

Contributor

• Brown, Martin D.
• Teich, Mikuláš
• Kováč, Dušan

Editor

• Teich, Mikuláš
• Brown, Martin D.
• Kováč, Dušan

Subject

• National characteristics, Slovak
• Slovakia -- History
• Slovakia -- Politics and government

Language

eng

Summary

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.--

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UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks