The Rise of Nationality in Eastern Europe

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The historian Emil Niederhauser has examined in this book the historical background to the emergence of 16 Eastern European nations—the Poles, Russians, Czechs, Hungarians, Croatians, Slovenes, Slovaks, Serbs, Greeks, Rumanians, Bulgarians, Albanians, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians.
Development, as the book explains, made a late start in Eastern Europe, due to some peculiar features in these nations' history. Nor was their past devoid of tragic and in retrospect even bizarre elements against whose background the period's fundamental problems were raised (and in the main left unanswered).
Today these problems are still topical: romantic daydreamings, tragically conflicting aims that were on occasion both just and unjustified at one and the same time, programmes concerning the nations' territory, language and ethnic identity, struggles by linguistic and religious minorities, etc.
With commendable scholarship and clarity, Professor Niederhauser presents the... Tovább

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The historian Emil Niederhauser has examined in this book the historical background to the emergence of 16 Eastern European nations—the Poles, Russians, Czechs, Hungarians, Croatians, Slovenes, Slovaks, Serbs, Greeks, Rumanians, Bulgarians, Albanians, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians.
Development, as the book explains, made a late start in Eastern Europe, due to some peculiar features in these nations' history. Nor was their past devoid of tragic and in retrospect even bizarre elements against whose background the period's fundamental problems were raised (and in the main left unanswered).
Today these problems are still topical: romantic daydreamings, tragically conflicting aims that were on occasion both just and unjustified at one and the same time, programmes concerning the nations' territory, language and ethnic identity, struggles by linguistic and religious minorities, etc.
With commendable scholarship and clarity, Professor Niederhauser presents the emergence of these nations as a varied process that might differ from nation to nation. This is a readable, graphic account of a decisive period in Eastern European history whose effects are still felt today.
Emil Niederhauser was born in 1923 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (formerly Pozsony, Hungary), and studied at Bratislava and Budapest universities. Since 1949 he has been on the research staff at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Historiography, and in 1973 he was appointed Professor of History at the University of Debrecen (Eastern Hungary).
Professor Niederhauser is engaged on research into the comparative history of 19th-century Eastern Europe.
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