Budweisers Into Czechs and Germans: A Local History of Bohemian Politics, 1848-1948

by Jeremy King

Book Overview

This history of a single town in Bohemia casts new light on nationalism in Central Europe between the Springtime of Nations in 1848 and the Cold War. Jeremy King tells the story of both German and Czech-speaking Budweis/Bud jovice, which belonged to the Habsburg Monarchy until 1918, and then to Czechoslovakia, Hitler's Third Reich, and Czechoslovakia again. Residents, at first simply "Budweisers," or Habsburg subjects with mostly local loyalties,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691122342
• ISBN13: 9780691122342
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.2"