Table of Contents

List of Figures Note on Conventions Acknowledgements 1. National Awakening and Contingency 2. The Hungarian Context 3. Hungaro-Slavism: Imagining a Slavic Hungary 4. Slovak Theories of Dual Nationality 5. The Slavic Language 6. Linguistic Czechoslovakism Before 1843 7. ?udovít Štúr and Slovak Tribalism 8. The Dialect Argument and Slovak Literacy 9. Czechoslovakia as a Slovakizing State Notes Bibliography Index

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At the turn of the 19th century, Hungarian-speaking Hungarians sought to assimilate Hungary's ethnic minorities into a new idea of nationhood, the country's Slavs instead imagined a proud multi-ethnic and multi-lingual state whose citizens could freely use their native languages. This book presents the story of how and why Slovakia came to be.

About the Author

Alexander Maxwell completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2003. Ha has won a Merian postdoctoral fellowship at Erfurt University, and a Europa fellowship at the New Europe College in Bucharest. He has taught at City University in Bratislava, the University of Wales at Swansea, and the University of Nevada at Reno. He is presently working at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.