Table of Contents

Introduction:
Miroslav Hroch: National Romanticism

Chapter I: Historicizing the Nation: Images of the Past, Continuity into the Present

Dániel Berzsenyi: To the Hungarians
Joseph von Hormayr: Austria and Germany
Joachim Lelewel: Legitimacy of the Polish nation
Mihail Kogălniceanu: Speech for the opening of the course on national history
František Palacký: A History of the Czech nation in Bohemia and Moravia
Mihály Horváth: History of the Hungarian war of independence of 1848-1849
Jakub Malý: Our national rebirth
Constantinos Paparrigopoulos: History of the Hellenic nation
Jovan Jovanović Zmaj: Bright graves and Grandfather and grandson
Ivan Vazov: Under the Yoke
Namık Kemal: Ottoman History

Chapter II: Spirit of the Nation: Folklore, Language, Religion

Josef Jungmann: Second conversation concerning the Czech language
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić: Little Slavo-Serbian song book of the common people
Ferenc Kölcsey: National traditions and Hymn
Mauricy Mochnacki: Thoughts on how translation of foreign belles-lettres influences Polish literature
Charles Sealsfield: Austria as it is
Dimitrios Vyzantios: Babel, or the local distortion of the Greek language
Henryk Rzewuski: Moral varieties
Ľudovít Štúr: The Slovak dialect, or the necessity of writing in this dialect
Jevrem Grujić and Milovan Janković: South Slavs, or the Serbian nation with the Croats and the Bulgarians
Simion Bărnuţiu: The public law of the Romanians
Dora D'Istria: The Albanian nationality on the basis of popular songs
Osman Hamdi Bey and Marie de Launay: The popular costumes of Turkey in 1873
Stefan Verkovich: Veda Slovena
Teodosij Gologanov: Letter on the renewal of the Archbishopric of Ohrid
Mihai Eminescu: Political articles

Chapter III: Nationalization of the Space

Ján Kollár: The Daughter of Sláva
Adam Mickiewicz: Pan Tadeusz
István Széchenyi: Hunnia
Ljudevit Gaj: Proclamations
Ilija Garašanin: The draft
Ioannis Kolettis: Of this great idea
Karel Havlíček: The Slav and the Czech
Petition to the Emperor against the unification of Bohemia and Moravia
Johann Majláth: An examination of the question: whether to annex the Carpathian Slavs and Ruthenians to the Magyars
Lajos Kossuth: Proposal. Concerning the future political establishment of Hungary
Alecu Russo: The song of Romania
Petar Beron: Slavic philosophy
Ahmed Midhat Efendi: The basis of reform
Sami Frashëri: Albania, what it was, what is and what it will be?

Chapter IV: The Nation and its Neighbors in Europe: Regional Perspectives

Markos Renieris: What is Greece? West or East?
Viktor von Andrian-Werburg: Austria and her future
František Palacký: Letter to Frankfurt, 11 April 1848
Miklós Wesselényi: Oration on the matter of the Hungarian and Slavonic nationalities Janko Drašković: Dissertation, or Treatise
Ľudovít Šuhajda: Magyarism in Hungary
Lajos Mocsáry: Nationality
Stefan Buszczyński: The future of Austria
Svetozar Miletić: The Eastern Question
Ion C. Brătianu: Nationality
Memorandum of the Secret Central Bulgarian Committee

Chapter V: National Heroism: Revolution and Counter-Revolution

Dositej Obradović: Rise, O Serbia
Alexandros Ypsilantis: Fight for Faith and Motherland!
Dionysios Solomos: Hymn to Liberty
Adam Mickiewicz: Prophesies
Henryk Kamieński: Vital truths of the Polish nation
Petar II Petrović Njegoš: The mountain wreath
Franz Grillparzer: Field-marshal Radetzky
Sándor Petőfi: National song
Requests of the Slovak nation
Jevrem Grujić: A vision of the state
Zsigmond Kemény: After the revolution
Nicolae Bălcescu: The course of revolution in the history of the Romanians
Hristo Botev: Hadji Dimiter and The hanging of Vasil Levski
Two Macedonian manifestos
Namık Kemal: Motherland, or Silistra
Mehmed Akif: Hymn to Independence

About the Author

Balázs Trencsényi is a Professor at the History Department of Central European University.







Michal Kopeček is Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague.