A concise history of Slovakia
By: edited by Elena Mannová ; [authors, Blanka Brezováková ... et al.].
Contributors: Mannová, Elena.; Brezováková, Blanka.; Historický ústav SAV.
Series: Studia historica Slovaca ;
Publisher: Historický ústav SAV
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Bratislava
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9788088880424
Subjects: Slovakia -- History.
Description: 353 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Contents … 3; title: Preface (Elena Mannová) … 7; title: ◦; title: I. THE HISTORY OF SLOVAKIA UP TO THE BEGINNING OF THE 10th CENTURY  (Ján Lukačka – Ján Steinhübel); title: ◦; title: 1. The Territory of Slovakia before the Coming of the Slavs … 9; title: — 1.1. The Celts and Dacians … 11; title: — 1.2. Germanic Tribes and the Romans … 12; title: ◦; title: 2. The Migration Period and Coming of the Slavs to the Carpathian Basin … 15; title: — 2.1. Samo’s Empire and the Oldest Slavonic Principalities Neighbouring the Avars … 16; title: — 2.2. The End of the Avar Kaganate … 18; title: — 2.3. Pribina’s Principality of Nitra … 19; title: ◦; title: 3. Great Moravia … 20; title: — 3.1. The Byzantine Mission … 22; title: — 3.2. The Reign of Svätopluk … 24; title: — 3.3. The End of Great Moravia … 27; title: ◦; title: II. SLOVAKIA IN THE KINGDOM OF HUNGARY UNDER THE HOUSE OF ÁRPÁD  (Ján Lukačka – Ján Steinhübel); title: ◦; title: 1. The Origin and Beginnings of the Kingdom of Hungary … 31; title: — 1.1. In the Neighbourhood of the Old Magyars … 31; title: — 1.2. The Subordinate Principality of Nitra … 32; title: — 1.3. The Flourishing of the Principality of Nitra … 35; title: — 1.4. The End of the Subordinate Principality of Nitra … 37; title: ◦; title: 2. Hungary and Slovakia in the 12th Century … 38; title: ◦; title: 3. The Economic, Social and Cultural Situation in the 10th-12th Centuries … 39; title: — 3.1. The Continuity of Christianity … 43; title: ◦; title: 4. The Kingdom of Hungary and Slovakia in the 13th Century … 45; title: — 4.1. The Tartar Invasion … 47; title: — 4.2. The War of the Babenberg Succession and the Anarchy under the Last Kings of the Árpád Dynasty … 47; title: — 4.3. The Economic Situation. The Origin of Privileged Boroughs … 49; title: — 4.4. Development of the County Territorial Organization … 51; title: — 4.5. Changes in the Structure of Society … 51; title: — 4.6. Development of Ecclesiastical Organization, Education and Art … 53; title: ◦; title: III. SLOVAKIA IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES (Blanka Brezováková – Daniela Dvořáková – Ivan Mrva – David P. Daniel); title: ◦; title: 1. The Political Crisis at the Beginning of the 14th Century (Blanka Brezováková); title: — 1.1. Candidates for the Hungarian Throne … 55; title: — 1.2. Charles Robert of Anjou against Matthew Csák and the Amadé Family … 61; title: ◦; title: 2. Slovakia in the 14th Century (Blanka Brezováková); title: — 2.1. Political Changes … 65; title: — 2.2. Reform Policy of the Angevin Kings … 69; title: — 2.3. Slovakia — the Economic Centre of the Kingdom of Hungary … 71; title: ◦; title: 3. Political History of the 15th Century (Daniela Dvořáková); title: — 3.1. Sigismund of Luxembourg … 77; title: — 3.2. Birth of the Estates System … 82; title: ◦; title: 4. The Structure of Late Medieval Society (Daniela Dvořáková) … 88; title: ◦; title: 5. Culture in the 15th Century (Daniela Dvořáková); title: — 5.1. Court Culture … 93; title: — 5.2. Changes in the Culture of the Nobility … 96; title: ◦; title: 6. The Jagellon Era (Ivan Mrva – David P. Daniel); title: — 6.1. Dynastic Changes in the Kingdom of Hungary and Central Europe … 98; title: — 6.2. The Causes and Effects of Noble Dominance … 100; title: ◦; title: IV. SLOVAKIA DURING THE EARLY MODERN ERA 1526-1711 (Ivan Mrva – David P. Daniel) … 105; title: ◦; title: 1. Slovakia and the Struggle for the Hungarian Crown; title: — 1.1. The Defeat at Mohács and its Aftermath … 106; title: — 1.2. Slovakia — the Core of the Hungarian Monarchy … 112; title: ◦; title: 2. Reformation, Re-Catholization and Domestic Political Conflicts; title: — 2.1. Introduction and Spread of the Evangelical Humanist Reformation … 114; title: — 2.2. Evangelical Confessions and Catholic Opposition … 118; title: — 2.3. The Consolidation of the Reformatio … 120; title: — 2.4. Re-Catholization by Force, the Insurrection of Stephen Bocskai and its Aftermath … 122; title: — 2.5. The Hungarian Revolts and the Thirty Years’ War … 127; title: — 2.6. The Insurrection of George I Rákóczi … 130; title: — 2.7. War with the Turks and the Conspiracy of Francis Wesselényi … 133; title: — 2.8. Royal Absolutism and Catholic Supremacy … 135; title: — 2.9. The Insurrection of Emerich Thököly and the End of the Turkish Yoke … 137; title: ◦; title: 3. Society in Early Modern Slovakia; title: — 3.1. Changes in the Ethnic Composition of Slovakia during the 16th and 17th Centuries … 141; title: — 3.2. The Development of Slovak Nationality … 143; title: — 3.3. Social Structure of the Population … 146; title: — 3.3.1. Nobles … 146; title: — 3.3.2. The Subject Population - the Serfs … 147; title: — 3.3.3. The Towns and their Population … 149; title: — 3.4. Economic Developments and the Living Conditions of the Population … 151; title: ◦; title: 4. Schools, Education and Culture … 154; title: ◦; title: V. SLOVAKIA IN A PERIOD OF STRUCTURAL CHANGES 1711-1848  (Eva Kowalská); title: ◦; title: 1. The Political Framework of the Period 1711-1848 … 159; title: ◦; title: 2. The Population and Economic Potential of Slovakia; title: — 2.1. Settlement and Structure of the Population … 164; title: — 2.2. Slovakia as an Economic Unit … 168; title: ◦; title: 3. Factors of Modernization; title: — 3.1. The State as Initiator of Modernizing Changes … 172; title: — 3.2. The Laicization of Cultural Life … 174; title: — 3.3. The Beginnings of Civil Society … 177; title: ◦; title: 4. From Ethnic Group to Modern Nation — the National Movement of the Slovaks; title: — 4.1. The Initial Situation of the Bearers of Ethnic Consciousness … 178; title: — 4.1.1. The Question of the Written Language … 178; title: — 4.1.2. The Question of Historical Tradition … 180; title: — 4.1.3. The Question of Slavonic Identity … 181; title: — 4.2. Periodization of the National Movement of the Slovaks up to the Middle of the 19th Century … 182; title: ◦; title: VI. ON THE ROAD TO MODERNIZATION 1848-1918  (Elena Mannová – Roman Holec); title: ◦; title: 1. Society in Slovakia. The Transformation of Estates Structures into Civil Structures (Elena Mannová); title: — 1.1. Demographic and Social Development and Urbanization … 185; title: — 1.2. Emigration … 191; title: — 1.3. The Institutionalization of New Social Relations. Voluntary Associations … 192; title: — 1.4. The Process of Formation of the Modern Slovak Nation … 196; title: ◦; title: 2.  Slovakia in the Economy of the Kingdom of Hungary (Roman Holec); title: — 2.1. Agriculture … 201; title: — 2.2. Industry … 202; title: ◦; title: 3.  In the Political Lines of Force (1848-1914) (Roman Holec); title: — 3.1. The Politics of Petitions and Memoranda … 206; title: — 3.2. The Period of Defence and Passivity … 209; title: — 3.3. The Coming of New Currents and Conceptions … 211; title: ◦; title: 4. Culture in a Multi-Ethnic Environment (Elena Mannová); title: — 4.1. Way of Life, Regional and Social Differences … 215; title: — 4.2. Religious and Church Life … 219; title: — 4.3. Education … 223; title: — 4.4. The Periodical Press and Book Culture … 223; title: — 4.5. Art and Science … 227; title: — 4.6. Collective Identities … 231; title: ◦; title: 5. The Slovaks in the Whirlwind of War (Roman Holec) … 234; title: ◦; title: VII. SLOVAKIA IN THE 20TH CENTURY  (Ľubomir Lipták); title: ◦; title: 1. Slovakia between the Wars … 241; title: — 1.1. The Struggle for Slovakia … 241; title: — 1.2. The Political System … 244; title: — 1.3. Economic Problems and the Social Consequences … 248; title: — 1.4. The International and Internal Crisis of the Thirties … 254; title: — 1.5. Autonomy for Slovakia and the Origin of the Slovak Republic	… 256; title: ◦; title: 2. The Slovak Republic 1939-1945 … 259; title: — 2.1. The International Position of the Slovak Republic and its Political System … 259; title: — 2.2. The Anti-Fascist Struggle … 266; title: — 2.3. The Slovak National Uprising … 268; title: — 2.4. The Regions Occupied by Germany, Poland and Hungary … 271; title: ◦; title: 3. Post-War Slovakia … 274; title: ◦; title: 4. The Communist Dictatorship in Slovakia … 278; title: — 4.1. The Political System … 278; title: — 4.2. The Communist Model of Industrialization and Modernization … 284; title: — 4.3. The Reform Movement of the Sixties. 1968 … 286; title: — 4.4. The “Normalization” of Dictatorship … 291; title: — 4.5. The Crisis and Fall of the Communist Dictatorship … 293; title: ◦; title: 5. From Czecho-Slovakia to the Slovak Republic … 296; title: — 5.1. The Three Strategic Transformations after 1989 … 296; title: — 5.2. The Slovak Republic … 301; title: ◦; title: EPILOGUE: THE BASIC PROBLEMS OF SLOVAK HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY (Alexander Avenarius); title: ◦; title: 1. The History of Slovakia in the Context of the Kingdom of Hungary … 307; title: 2. The History of Slovakia in its Central European Context: Slovak History as a Geopolitical Problem … 310; title: ◦; title: Selected Bibliography … 315; title: Index of Persons … 343; title: List of Maps … 353