Flag wars and stone saints : how the Bohemian lands became Czech

Flag wars and stone saints : how the Bohemian lands became Czech / Nancy M. Wingfield.

Author/creator	Wingfield, Nancy M. (Nancy Meriwether)
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Description	xviii, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subject(s)	Nationalism--Czechoslovakia --History. Germans--Czechoslovakia --History. Ethnicity--Political aspects --Czechoslovakia. Collective memory--Czechoslovakia. Popular culture--Czechoslovakia. Myth--Political aspects --Czechoslovakia.

Contents	Imagining the emperor : statues of Joseph II as sites of German identity -- The battle joined : protesting the Badeni language ordinances -- The Moravians compromise? Czechs, Germans, and the question of a second Czech university -- Centers and peripheries : the Francis Joseph jubilees -- National myths and the consolidation of the Czechoslovak state -- Pomp and circumstances : commemorations and the construction of national memory -- The politics of sound : "talkies" and anti-German demonstrations in Prague -- The attempt to construct a German community -- The politics of memory in postwar Czechoslovakia.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-343) and index.
LCCN	2007013094
ISBN	9780674025820 (alk. paper)
ISBN	0674025822 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	DB 2176 .W65 2007	✔ Available	Place Hold