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Budweisers into Czechs and Germans
Jeremy King
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
This history of a single town in Bohemia casts new light on nationalism in Central Europe between the Springtime of Nations in 1848 and the Cold War. Jeremy King tells the story of both German and Czech-speaking Budweis/Budæjovice, which belonged to the Habsburg Monarchy until 1918, and then to Czechoslovakia, Hitler's Third Reich, and Czechoslovakia again. Residents, at first simply "Budweisers," or Habsburg subjects with mostly local loyalties, gradually became Czechs or Germans. Who became Czech, though, and who German? What did it mean to be one or the other?
In answering these questions, King shows how an epochal, region-wide contest for power found expression in Budweis/Budæjovice not only through elections but through clubs, schools, boycotts, breweries, a remarkable constitutional experiment, a couple of riots, and much more. In tracing the nationalization of politics from small and sometimes comic beginnings to the genocide and mass expulsions of the 1940s, he also rejects traditional interpretive frameworks. Writing not a national history but a history of nationhood, both Czech and German, King recovers a nonnational dimension to the past. Embodied locally by Budweisers and more generally by the Habsburg state, that dimension has long been blocked from view by a national rhetoric of race and ethnicity. King's Czech-Habsburg-German narrative, in addition to capturing the dynamism and complexity of Bohemian politics, participates in broader scholarly discussions concerning the nature of nationalism.
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Imperial-Royal, Tax, Hungarians, Nationality, German name, Sudetenland, Blood and Iron (speech), Sudeten German Party, Republic of German-Austria, Czech name, Social Democratic Party of Austria, Triple Entente, Czechs, Karl Renner, Lower Austria, Austro-Prussian War, Bohemia, Nazi Germany, Styria, German National Socialist Workers' Party (Czechoslovakia), Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II, Bundestag, Young Czech Party, Czech Statistical Office, Nazism, Czechoslovakism, Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Alsace-Lorraine, Flag of Germany, Otto von Bismarck, Neo-Nazism, Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, Nuremberg Laws, Miroslav Hroch, Reinhard Heydrich, Heimkehr, Völkisch movement, Habsburg Monarchy, Czechoslovakia, Budweiser, Masaryk, Slovakia, Germanisation, Germans, Czech National Social Party, Erich Ludendorff, Austria-Hungary, Constitutionalist (UK), German Confederation, Jan Masaryk, Pan-Germanism, States of Germany, Slovaks, Imperial Council (Austria), Anschluss, Czech lands, Austria, House of Habsburg, Konrad Henlein, German General Staff, Social Democratic Party of Germany, Sudeten Germans, Cisleithania, Umvolkung, Czech language, Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler, Austrian Parliament, Ottokar, Politics