Czech, German, and Noble
Status and national identity in Habsburg Bohemia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20029680 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rita Krueger (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Pages | 290 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Czech, German, and noble (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195323450.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2506289157 |
| Open Library | OL16872195M |
| ISBN | 9780195323450 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
This book examines the intellectual ideas and political challenges that inspired patriotic activity among the Bohemian nobility, the infusion of national identity into public and institutional life, and the role of the nobility in crafting and supporting the national ideal within Habsburg Bohemia. Patriotic aristocrats created the visible and public institutional framework that cultivated national sentiment and provided the national movement with a degree of intellectual and social legitimacy. The book argues that the mutating identity of the aristocracy was tied both to insecurity and to a belief in the power of science to address social problems, commitment to the ideals of enlightenment as well as individual and social improvement, and profound confidence that progress was inevitable and that intellectual achievement would save society. The argument, that class mattered to the degree that it was irrelevant, intersects with several important historical questions beyond theories of nationalism, including debates about modernization and the longevity of aristocratic power, the nature of the public sphere and class, and the measurable impact of science, and intellectual movements on social and political life. The book is organized thematically to reflect the central argument that critical nation building was located in nascent institutions that incorporated fundamentally new ways of thinking about community, culture, competition, and status
Argument (complex analysis) · Aristocracy (class) · Legitimacy · National identity · Nationalism · Nobility · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Central European national history · European Political History Analysis · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law · Bohemia · Czech republic · Europe · History · Intellectual life · Language and culture · National socialism · politics and government · Public institutions · Social aspects · Social aspects of Nationalism · Social conditions · Social status
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |