Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii Preface viii Introduction: Budweisers into Czechs and Germans 1 Chapter One: Plolitics in Flux, 1848-1871 15 Chapter Two: A More Broad and National Politics, 1871-1890 48 Chapter Three: Free-for-All, 1890-1902 80 Chapter Four: Toward a Multinational State, 1902-1918 114 Chapter Five: Bohemian Politics Reframed, 1918-1945 153 Conclusion: Budweis Buried, 1945-1948 189 Notes 213 Bibliography 255 Index 275

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King provides a compelling narrative of nation building in a single Central European town. The story is told engagingly and with a rare freshness of style. King shows a masterful command over an impressive range of primary sources and exploits it fully in charting and interpreting the dynamics of nation building at the micro level within its larger historical setting. -- David F. Good, University of Minnesota This book makes a significant contribution to a very active scholarly field. It is particularly welcome for the way it focuses on nationalism in one of those places that western European

About the Author

Jeremy King is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Mount Holyoke College.

Reviews

"[A] highly intelligent and admirably researched study... [King] is intent on mapping a new vision of the region's history, freed from its national blinkers."--Steven Beller, Times Literary Supplement "There is no other local or regional history of national identification for the Habsburg monarchy with the same chronological scope and sophisticated analysis as King's."--Gary B. Cohen, International History Review "An important study of local history in a region of Europe where many have feared to tread... [This book] is quite readable and represents a major scholarly contribution to the study of nation-building."--Jack R. Dukes, History: Reviews of New Books "[T]he most important book to appear in the fields of Austrian, Habsburg, or Bohemian history in the last twenty years."--Pieter M. Judson, Social History "[A] wonderfully reflective book... [King's] rendering of the complex national struggles is remarkably detached and empathetic at the same time, which is made particularly convincing by his elegant and respectful style of writing. Most remarkably, he depicts the role of the Habsburg rulers in a new, essentially positive light."--Diethelm Prowe, German Studies Review "The main direction of King's argument--and the book's real contribution--is to illuminate the political dimension and origins of nationalism... It is a complex story, told very engagingly. Written in a fresh style that avoids jargon and 'insiderisms,' the book will surely offer much of use to novices and well read experts alike."--Karl F. Bahm, Austrian History Yearbook "Engagingly written and convincingly argued, this volume should command a wide audience... This exemplary study is the standard by which local studies and political histories of the monarchy will be judged for years to come."--Nancy M. Wingfield, Central European History "This work is an exhaustively researched, well written, and highly interesting account of ethnic relations in a typically multiethnic Central European city, which suggests an interesting... new perspective on the relationship of ethnicity and the modern state."--Carol A. Leibiger, Seminar