Publication details
Czech national awareness in Morava in the revolutionary years 1848/1849
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Czech-Polish Historical and Pedagogical Journal |
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| Citation | |
| Field | History |
| Keywords | national awareness; nationalism; shaping of modern Czech nation; Slavism; constitutional connection; the "spring of nations"; the work of civic associations |
| Description | The study focoses on the process of the gradual shaping of Czech national awareness in Moravia from the beginning of the nineteenth century onwards when the necessary conditions for the development of improved mutual relations between the Czech (Slavic) population in the two Lands of the Czech Crown - Bohemia and Moravia -were slowly being formed. Moravia faced a number at handicaps to the development of a national revival in comparison with Bohemia, the most significant of which was the relatively high degree of Germanisation of the land. A change to the image of Moravia came in the revolutionary years 1848/1849 when Czech national awareness spread to broader sections of society ion Moravia |