Chad Bryant
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chad Bryant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chad |
| FAMILY NAME | Bryant |
| SIGNATURE | BRYANT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0365-9209 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Czech Manuscripts
Undone from Within
In November 1952, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Rudolf Slánský and thirteen other prominent Communist Party leaders underwent a widely publicized political trial. Slánský featured as the alleged ringleader of a conspiracy of “Trotskyist-Titoist Zionists, bourgeois-nationalist traitors” working on behalf of “American imperialists.” Following the trial, eleven of the fourteen defendants, among them Slánský, were …
Meaningful Encounters? Egon Erwin Kisch’s ‘Prague Forays’ and Our Post-Covid World
In 1910, Egon Erwin Kisch published the first instalment of his ‘Prague Forays’ column for Bohemia, the city’s pre-eminent German-language newspaper. The column, which ran for more than a year, launched the young writer’s literary career. This essay argues that Kisch’s ‘Prague Forays’ feuilletons, which walked his middle-class readers to down-and-out places throughout the city, can inspire us to think differently about urban encounters then and n…
Prague
T homas L orman . The Making of the Slovak People’s Party
A week after the Munich Agreement, leaders of the Slovak People’s Party seized control of the semi-autonomous government in Slovakia. Months later, on March 14, 1939, as Nazi troops prepared to invade the mostly Czech-inhabited regions of rump Czecho-Slovakia, the party’s leaders declared Slovak independence to the sound of ringing church bells across the country. Thomas Lorman’s impressive book begins and concludes with this moment, asking not a…
Prague
"A poignant reflection on alienation and belonging, told through the lives of five remarkable people who struggled against nationalism and intolerance in one of Europe's most stunning cities. What does it mean to belong somewhere? For many of Prague's inhabitants, belonging has been linked to the nation, embodied in the capital city. Grandiose medieval buildings and monuments to national heroes boast of a glorious, shared history. Past government…
Habsburg History, Eastern European History … Central European History
Germany and all things German have long been the primary concern of Central European History ( CEH ), yet the journal has also been intimately tied to the lands of the former Habsburg monarchy. As the editor stated in the first issue, published in March 1968, CEH emerged “in response to a widespread demand for an American journal devoted to the history of German-speaking Central Europe,” following the demise of the Journal of Central European Aff…
Walking Histories, 1800-1914
Walking Histories, 1800-1914
Introduction
In the winter of 1716–17 Lady Mary Montague crossed the border dividing the Habsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire. As she noted in a letter to Alexander Pope, dated February 12, 1717, decades of conflict between the two empires had caused the belligerents to police the border with particular care. The Habsburg governor and the Ottoman Bas sa negotiated, via courier, a place along the border frontier where Montague and her husband, Richard Wortle…
Borderlands in World History, 1700–1914
Covering two hundred years, this groundbreaking book brings together essays on borderlands by leading experts in the modern history of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia to offer the fir
Zap's Prague
Karel Vladislav Zap, who came of age during the 1830 revolutions in Europe, belonged to a generation of Czech elites determined to promote national consciousness while actively carving out a space within Prague's middle-class social milieu. Zap, as his topographies of the city demonstrate, also called on his countrymen to claim the city and its structures from their German-speaking neighbours, thus contributing to a dynamic that would continue th…
After Nationalism? Urban History and East European History
Urban history in our field has taken many different forms in the past few decades. Many such works, no doubt, have drawn great inspiration from scholars outside our area specialization. Many, however, have looked within our area specialization for inspiration, thus giving urban histories of our region several peculiar characteristics. The first part of this article discusses how urban historians have provided new perspectives on a topic long dear…
Prague in Black
The Language of Resistance? Czech Jokes and Joke-telling under Nazi Occupation, 1943-45
This article analyses jokes that Czech informants transmitted to their London government in exile from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, a nazi rump state carved from the former Czechoslovakia in March 1939. The first half of the article explores the informants’ claims that jokes constituted a particular form of resistance [ odboj] and Czech nationalism in the face of an oppressive and ‘Germanizing’ nazi regime. The second half of the arti…
Either German or Czech
In this article Chad Bryant examines how Nazi and postwar Czechoslovak officials defined and ascribed nationality in the Bohemian crownlands. Specifically, Bryant looks at how officials struggled to come to terms with so-called amphibians-people who could switch public nationality or whose nationality was unclear. Amphibians challenged officials to define what they meant by "Czech" or "German." Although the definitions of what made a Czech or a G…
Borderlands in World History, 1700–1914
Covering two hundred years, this groundbreaking book brings together essays on borderlands by leading experts in the modern history of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia to offer the fir
Either German or Czech
In this article Chad Bryant examines how Nazi and postwar Czechoslovak officials defined and ascribed nationality in the Bohemian crownlands. Specifically, Bryant looks at how officials struggled to come to terms with so-called amphibians-people who could switch public nationality or whose nationality was unclear. Amphibians challenged officials to define what they meant by "Czech" or "German." Although the definitions of what made a Czech or a G…
The Language of Resistance? Czech Jokes and Joke-telling under Nazi Occupation, 1943-45
This article analyses jokes that Czech informants transmitted to their London government in exile from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, a nazi rump state carved from the former Czechoslovakia in March 1939. The first half of the article explores the informants’ claims that jokes constituted a particular form of resistance [ odboj] and Czech nationalism in the face of an oppressive and ‘Germanizing’ nazi regime. The second half of the arti…
Either German or Czech
In this article Chad Bryant examines how Nazi and postwar Czechoslovak officials defined and ascribed nationality in the Bohemian crownlands. Specifically, Bryant looks at how officials struggled to come to terms with so-called amphibians-people who could switch public nationality or whose nationality was unclear. Amphibians challenged officials to define what they meant by "Czech" or "German." Although the definitions of what made a Czech or a G…
The Language of Resistance? Czech Jokes and Joke-telling under Nazi Occupation, 1943-45
This article analyses jokes that Czech informants transmitted to their London government in exile from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, a nazi rump state carved from the former Czechoslovakia in March 1939. The first half of the article explores the informants’ claims that jokes constituted a particular form of resistance [ odboj] and Czech nationalism in the face of an oppressive and ‘Germanizing’ nazi regime. The second half of the arti…
Prague in Black
After Nationalism? Urban History and East European History
Urban history in our field has taken many different forms in the past few decades. Many such works, no doubt, have drawn great inspiration from scholars outside our area specialization. Many, however, have looked within our area specialization for inspiration, thus giving urban histories of our region several peculiar characteristics. The first part of this article discusses how urban historians have provided new perspectives on a topic long dear…
Zap's Prague
Karel Vladislav Zap, who came of age during the 1830 revolutions in Europe, belonged to a generation of Czech elites determined to promote national consciousness while actively carving out a space within Prague's middle-class social milieu. Zap, as his topographies of the city demonstrate, also called on his countrymen to claim the city and its structures from their German-speaking neighbours, thus contributing to a dynamic that would continue th…
Introduction
In the winter of 1716–17 Lady Mary Montague crossed the border dividing the Habsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire. As she noted in a letter to Alexander Pope, dated February 12, 1717, decades of conflict between the two empires had caused the belligerents to police the border with particular care. The Habsburg governor and the Ottoman Bas sa negotiated, via courier, a place along the border frontier where Montague and her husband, Richard Wortle…
Borderlands in World History, 1700–1914
Covering two hundred years, this groundbreaking book brings together essays on borderlands by leading experts in the modern history of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia to offer the fir
Walking Histories, 1800-1914
Walking Histories, 1800-1914
Habsburg History, Eastern European History … Central European History
Germany and all things German have long been the primary concern of Central European History ( CEH ), yet the journal has also been intimately tied to the lands of the former Habsburg monarchy. As the editor stated in the first issue, published in March 1968, CEH emerged “in response to a widespread demand for an American journal devoted to the history of German-speaking Central Europe,” following the demise of the Journal of Central European Aff…
Prague
T homas L orman . The Making of the Slovak People’s Party
A week after the Munich Agreement, leaders of the Slovak People’s Party seized control of the semi-autonomous government in Slovakia. Months later, on March 14, 1939, as Nazi troops prepared to invade the mostly Czech-inhabited regions of rump Czecho-Slovakia, the party’s leaders declared Slovak independence to the sound of ringing church bells across the country. Thomas Lorman’s impressive book begins and concludes with this moment, asking not a…
Prague
"A poignant reflection on alienation and belonging, told through the lives of five remarkable people who struggled against nationalism and intolerance in one of Europe's most stunning cities. What does it mean to belong somewhere? For many of Prague's inhabitants, belonging has been linked to the nation, embodied in the capital city. Grandiose medieval buildings and monuments to national heroes boast of a glorious, shared history. Past government…
Meaningful Encounters? Egon Erwin Kisch’s ‘Prague Forays’ and Our Post-Covid World
In 1910, Egon Erwin Kisch published the first instalment of his ‘Prague Forays’ column for Bohemia, the city’s pre-eminent German-language newspaper. The column, which ran for more than a year, launched the young writer’s literary career. This essay argues that Kisch’s ‘Prague Forays’ feuilletons, which walked his middle-class readers to down-and-out places throughout the city, can inspire us to think differently about urban encounters then and n…
Undone from Within
In November 1952, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Rudolf Slánský and thirteen other prominent Communist Party leaders underwent a widely publicized political trial. Slánský featured as the alleged ringleader of a conspiracy of “Trotskyist-Titoist Zionists, bourgeois-nationalist traitors” working on behalf of “American imperialists.” Following the trial, eleven of the fourteen defendants, among them Slánský, were …
The Czech Manuscripts
History (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Economic history (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Czech (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works)