In a new perspective on the formation of national identity in
Central Europe, Nancy Wingfield analyzes what many historians have
treated separately--the construction of the Czech and German
nations--as a larger single phenomenon.
Czech and German nationalism worked off each other in dynamic
ways. As external conditions changed, Czech and German nationalists
found new uses for their pasts and new ways to stage them in public
spaces for their ongoing national projects. These grassroots
confrontations transformed public culture by reinforcing the
centrality of nationality to everyday life and by tying nationalism
to the exercise of power. The battles in the public sphere produced
a cultural geography of national conflict associated with the
unveiling of Joseph II statues that began in 1881, the Badeni
Language Ordinances of 1897, the 1905 debate over a Czech-language
university in Moravia, and the celebration of the emperor's
sixtieth jubilee in 1908. The pattern of impassioned national
conflict would be repeated for the duration of the monarchy and
persist with even more violence into the First Czechoslovak
Republic.
Numerous illustrations show how people absorbed, on many
levels, visual clues that shaped how they identified themselves and
their groups. This nuanced analysis is a valuable contribution to
our understanding of Central European history, nationalism, and the
uses of collective memory.
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