This illuminating study examines the dramatic transformation of
Bohemian noble identity from the rise of mass politics in the late
nineteenth century to the descent of the Iron Curtain after World
War II.
At the turn of the twentieth century, some 300 noble families
owned over a third of the Habsburg Bohemian Crownlands. With the
Empire's demise in 1918, the once powerful Bohemian nobility
quickly became a target of the nationalist revolution sweeping the
new Czechoslovak state. Eagle Glassheim traces the evolving efforts
of the nobles to define their place in this revolutionary new
order.
Nobles saw little choice but to ally with Czech and German
national parties, initially in the hopes of assuaging radical land
reform. Yet they retained aristocratic political and social
traditions that continued to shape their national identities after
1918. Some moved toward a hybrid national identification, embracing
a form of German internationalism and a vision of pan-European
unity that led many to support Hitler's expansionist efforts in the
late 1930s. Others trumpeted their new-found Czech nationalism in
resisting the Nazi occupation.
"Noble Nationalists" offers valuable insights on the
nationalization of a conservative political elite, as well as on
the national and social revolutions that recast Central Europe in
the first half of the twentieth century.
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