Czechs and Germans 1848-2004 : the Sudeten question and the transformation of Central Europe /
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| Author / Creator: | Houžvička, Václav, author. |
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| Uniform title: | Návraty sudetské otázky. English |
| Edition: | First English edition. |
| Imprint: | Prague : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press, 2015. ©2015 |
| Description: | 648 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10739522 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - Historical Context and the Right to Memory
- 1. German Central Europe and Czech Emancipation
- Ethnic Tensions in the Monarchy and Masaryk's Programme
- 2. Mitteleuropa - The vision of a dominant Germany
- Naumann's Project
- Ideas of Greater Germany
- 3. The Central Europe of the Successor States
- The Paris Peace Conference
- German Bohemians versus Czechoslovakia
- Democratic Reform of National-Ethnic Relations
- Civic Nation versus Ethnic Community
- 4. Germans in the New Republic
- The Language Law
- German Parties and the Politics of Engagement
- The Economic Crisis and the Borderlands
- 5. The Resurgence of Germany as a Great Power
- Through Equal Rights to Revision
- Complaints to the League of Nations
- German Minorities Abroad
- Ethnic Germans as an Instrument of Expansion
- The Programme of International Isolation of the CSR
- The Psychological War against Czechoslovakia
- Press Propaganda
- 6. The Triumph of the Appeasers at Munich
- Secret Diplomatic Soundings in Prague
- Henlein's Karlsbad Ultimatum
- Munich 1938
- The Historical Dilemma of Capitulation
- The Interval of the Second Republic
- The Conflict-Ridden Principle of Self-determination
- 7. The Genesis of the Transfer of the Sudeten Germans
- A Century of Transfers of Populations
- The Sudeten Germans and the Protectorate
- The Sudetenland Model Reichsgau
- The London Government in Exile and the Home Resistance
- Edward Benes and British Plans
- Transfer or Expulsion?
- Cutting the Gordian Knot
- 8. The Transferred Sudeten Germans in Post-war Germany
- The Formation of the Sudeten German Expellee Organisations
- The Unification of the Expellees
- The Twenty-Point Programme
- The Support of the Political Spectrum of the FRG for the Expellees
- 9. The Sudeten German Question between Home and Exile
- The Danubius Theses on the Expulsion of the Czechoslovak Germans
- The Czech Fate in Central Europe
- The Redefinition of the German Role in Central Europe
- 10. The Return of Freedom (and History) - 1989
- The Opening of Dialogue and the Division of the State
- The Declaration and Conditional Reconciliation
- Modified Regionalism and Ethnic Minorities
- The Dual Interpretation of History
- 11. Memory as Part of the Present
- Cautious Friendship
- The Historical Roots of Attitudes to Germany
- Fears of Germany - A Reduced State Syndrome?
- Germany Unified and Emancipated
- The Return of Mitteleuropa?
- 12. Germany and the Sudeten German Question in the Eyes of Public Opinion
- 13. The Czech-German Relationship between Past and Future
- Instead of a conclusion
- Bibliography
- Bibliographical Note
- List of Appendix Documents
- List of Maps and Graphs
- List of Illustrations
- Index of Organisation Names
- Index of Personal Names