Guardians of the Nation: Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria

by Pieter M. Judson

In the decades leading up to World War I, nationalist activists in imperial Austria labored to transform linguistically mixed rural regions into politically charged language frontiers. They hoped to remake local populations into polarized peoples and their villages into focal points of the political conflict that dominated the Habsburg Empire. But they often found bilingual inhabitants accustomed to cultural mixing who were stubbornly indifferent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674023250
• ISBN13: 9780674023253
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"