Slovakia in history / 
edited by Mikulâaés Teich, Duésan Kovâaéc, and Martin D. Brown. 
 - Cambridge ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2011. 
 - xvii, 413 p. :  ill., maps ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Machine generated contents note: 1. Preface: Slovakia, Slovaks and their history / Duésan Kovâaéc; 2. The Duchy of Nitra / Jâan Steinhèubel; 3. The beginnings of the nobility in Slovakia / Jâan Lukaécka; 4. Medieval towns / Vladimir Segeés; 5. Renaissance and humanist tendencies in Slovakia / Eva Frimmova; 6. The period of religious disturbances / Viliam éCiécaj; 7. The Enlightenment and beginnings of the modern Slovak nation / Eva Kowalskâa; 8. Slovak Slavism and Pan-Slavism / éLudovit Haraksim; 9. The Slovak political programme--from Hungarian patriotism to the Czech-Slovak state / Duésan Kovaéc; 10. Slovakia in Czechoslovakia (1918-1938) / Natalia Krajécoviécova; 11. Slovakia from the Munich conference to the declaration of independence / Valerian Bystricky; 12. The Slovak state of 1939-1945 / Ivan Kamenec; 13. The Slovak question and the resistance movement during the Second World War / Jan Rychli;k; 14. The Slovak National Uprising in 1944 / Vilem Preécan; 15. The Slovak question after the Second World War / Michal Barnovsky; 16. Czechoslovakism in Slovak history / Elisabeth Bakke; 17. Magyar minority in Slovakia before and after the Second World War / éStefan éSutaj; 18. The establishment of totalitarianism in Slovakia after the February coup of 1948 and the culmination of mass persecution (1948-1953) / Jan Peések; 19. Slovakia and the attempt to reform socialism in Czechoslovakia 1963-1969 / Stanislav Sikora; 20. The position of Slovakia in the Czech-Slovak Federation / Jozef éZatkuliak; 21. Slovakia under the communist dictatorship 1948-1989 : controversial development in the economic, social, and cultural fields / Miroslav Londak and Elena Londakova; 22. The fall of communism and independent Slovakia / Michal éStefansky; 23. Afterword / Mikulaés Teich. 
<br/><br/> "Until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia's identity seemed inextricably linked with that of the former state. This book explores the key moments and themes in the history of Slovakia from the Duchy of Nitra's ninth-century origins to the establishment of independent Slovakia at midnight 1992-1993. Leading scholars chart the gradual ethnic awakening of the Slovaks during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and examine how Slovak national identity took shape with the codification of standard literary Slovak in 1843 and the subsequent development of the Slovak national movement. They show how, after a thousand years of Magyar-Slovak coexistence, Slovakia became part of the new Czechoslovak Republic from 1918-1939 and shed new light on its role as a Nazi client state as well as on the postwar developments leading up to full statehood in the aftermath of the collapse of Communism in 1989. There is no comparable book in English on the subject"--Provided by publisher. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521802536 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010022615 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>National characteristics, Slovak.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Slovakia--History.<br/>Slovakia--Politics and government.<br/>Slovakia--Historia.<br/>Slovakia--Política y gobierno
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>345 DB 2763  / S634 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>943.73