Nancy Meriwether Wingfield

In a new perspective on the formation of national identity in Central Europe, Wingfield analyzes what many historians have treated separately--the construction of the Czech and German nations--as a single phenomenon. Illustrations show how people absorbed, on many levels, visual clues that shaped how they identified themselves and their groups.

How the Bohemian Lands Became Czech

Flag Wars and Stone Saints

Maria Bucur

Wingfield, Nancy Meriwether Wingfield

Purdue University Press

This volume contains three sections of essays which examine the role of commemoration and public celebrations in the creation of a national identity in Habsburg lands. It also seeks to engage historians of culture and of nationalism in other geographic fields as well as colleagues who work on Habsburg Central Europe, but write about nationalism from different vantage points. There is hope that this work will help generate a dialogue, especially with colleagues who live in the regions that were analyzed. Many of the authors consider the commemorations discussed in this volume from very different points of view, as they themselves are strongly rooted in a historical context that remains much closer to the nationalism we critique.

The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present

Staging the Past

Joseph Rothschild

Professor of Political Science and Associate of the Institute on East Central Europe Joseph Rothschild

Nancy W. Wingfield

Bruce D. McClung

Written by one of the world's foremost authorities on East Central Europe, Return to Diversity has proven to be an invaluable guide for readers of modern European history and politics. This third edition introduces a new co-author, Nancy M. Wingfield, and has been fully updated to take into account recent and ongoing developments in the region.

A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II

Return to Diversity

Nancy Meriwether Wingfield

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