Budweisers Into Czechs and Germans: A Local History of Bohemian Politics, 1848-1948 King Jeremy
Budweisers Into Czechs and Germans: A Local History of Bohemian Politics, 1848-1948 King Jeremy This history of a single town in Bohemia casts new light on nationalism in Central Europe between the…
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Budweisers Into Czechs and Germans: A Local History of Bohemian Politics, 1848-1948 King Jeremy
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. Residents, at first simply "Budweisers," or Habsburg subjects with mostly local loyalties, gradually became Czechs or Germans. Jeremy King tells the story of both German and Czech-speaking Budweis/Bud jovice, which belonged to the Habsburg Monarchy until 1918, and then to Czechoslovakia, Hitler's Third Reich, and Czechoslovakia again.
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/Bud jovice not only through elections but through clubs, schools, boycotts, breweries, a remarkable constitutional experiment, a couple of riots, and much more. Who became Czech, though, and who German? In tracing the nationalization of politics