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

by Pieter M. Judson

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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 to identifying with only one group.

Using examples from several regions, including Bohemia and Styria, Pieter Judson traces the struggle to consolidate the loyalty of local populations for nationalist causes. Whether German, Czech, Italian, or Slovene,...

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  • ISBN10 0674023250
  • ISBN13 9780674023253
  • Publish Date 31 January 2007
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Harvard University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 332
  • Language English