The Slovak National Awakening: An Essay in the Intellectual History of East Central Europe

by Peter Brock

Book Overview

The Slovaks lived under Hungarian rule for centuries, with no clear sense of political separateness, preserving Slovak as their spoken language, but using Czech as their written language. In the last decades of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries, the efforts made by clerical intellectuals to develop a language more closely attuned to Slovak needs led to the rise of Slovak nationalism.

The Slovak National Awakening describes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442652314
• ISBN13: 9781442652316
• Release Date: December 1976
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher