num_pages: 288
description: At the turn of the nineteenth century Hungary was the site of a national awakening. While Hungarian-speaking Hungarians sought to assimilate Hungarys ethnic minorities into a new idea of nationhood the countrys Slavs instead imagined a proud multi-ethnic and multi-lingual state whose citizens could freely use their native languages. The Slavs saw themselves as Hungarian citizens speaking Pan-Slav and Czech dialects -- and yet were the origins of what would become in the twentieth century a new Slovak nation. How then did Slovak nationalism emerge from multi-ethnic Hungarian loyalism Czechoslovakism and Pan-Slavism? Here Alexander Maxwell presents the story of how and why Slovakia came to be.
language: English
title: Choosing Slovakia: Slavic Hungary, the Czechoslovak Language and Accidental Nationalism
publisher: I.B.Tauris