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Informationen zum Autor Alexander Maxwell completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2003. He has won a Merian postdoctoral fellowship at Erfurt University, and a Europa fellowship at the New Europe College in Bucharest. He has taught at City University in Bratislava, the University of Wales at Swansea, and the University of Nevada at Reno. He is presently working at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. Vorwort At the turn of the nineteenth century, Hungary was the site of a national awakening. While Hungarian-speaking Hungarians sought to assimilate Hungary's ethnic minorities into a new idea of nationhood, the country's Slavs instead imagined a proud multi-ethnic and multi-lingual state whose citizens could freely use their native languages. Zusammenfassung At the turn of the nineteenth century, Hungary was the site of a national awakening. While Hungarian-speaking Hungarians sought to assimilate Hungary's ethnic minorities into a new idea of nationhood, the country's Slavs instead imagined a proud multi-ethnic and multi-lingual state whose citizens could freely use their native languages. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresNote on ConventionsAcknowledgements1. National Awakening and Contingency2. The Hungarian Context3. Hungaro-Slavism: Imagining a Slavic Hungary4. Slovak Theories of Dual Nationality5. The Slavic Language6. Linguistic Czechoslovakism Before 18437. ?udovít Štúr and Slovak Tribalism8. The Dialect Argument and Slovak Literacy9. Czechoslovakia as a Slovakizing StateNotesBibliographyIndex
