| Description |
xiv, 397 pages : maps ; 21 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: List of Maps viii -- Preface to the Second Edition ix -- Maps x -- Introduction 1 -- 1. The Land and Its People 11 -- 2. The First State 23 -- 3. The Middle Ages 39 -- 4. The Habsburg Empire 61 -- 5. The National Awakening 89 -- 6. The Politics ofSurvival 107 -- 7. The Struggle for Nationhood 125 -- 8. The First Czechoslovak Republic 1918-1938 155 -- 9. The Slovak Republic 1939-1945 185 -- 10. The Uprisingof 1944 205 -- 11. Communism and Federalism 225 -- 12. Democracy and Independence 251 -- 13. The Return to Europe 273 -- Notes 311 -- Selective Bibliography 357 -- Index 383 |
| Summary |
"Professor Kirschbaum offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of Slovakia, from its arrival on the Danubian Plain to the present. While paying tribute to Slovakia's resilience and struggle for survival he describes its contribution to European civilization in the Middle Ages; the development of Slovak consciousness in response to Magyarization; its struggle for autonomy in Czechoslovakia after the Treaty of Versailles; its resistance, as the first Slovak Republic, to a Nazi-controlled Europe; its reaction to Communism; and the path that led to the creation of the second Slovak Republic. The final chapter examines the vagaries of Slovak post Communist politics that led to Slovakia's membership in NATO and the European Union."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
History |
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Overseas item |
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Slovakia |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-381) and index |
| SUBJECT |
Slovakia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123490
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| LC no. |
2005279276 |
| ISBN |
1403969299 |
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