Budweisers into Czechs and Germans
Subtitle: a local history of Bohemian politics, 1848-1948
By: Jeremy King.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Germans -- Czech Republic -- České Budějovice; České Budějovice (Czech Republic) -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects; České Budějovice (Czech Republic) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century; České Budějovice (Czech Republic) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
Description: "This history of a single town in Bohemia casts new light on nationalism in Central Europe between the Springtime of Nations in 1848 and the Cold War. Jeremy King tells the story of both German and Czech-speaking Budweis/Budejovice, which belonged to the Habsburg Monarchy until 1918, and then to Czechoslovakia, Hitler's Third Reich, and Czechoslovakia again. Residents, at first simply "Budweisers," or Habsburg subjects with mostly local loyalties, gradually became Czechs or Germans.

Who became Czech, though, and who German? What did it mean to be one or the other?"--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-273) and index.