PT Journal
AU Popelka, P
TI Process of The Czech National Activation in Northwest Moravia until the WWI
SO Historica Olomucensia
PY 2019
BP 103
EP 136
VL 57
IS 2
DI 10.5507/ho.2019.030
DE collective identity; nationalism; national relations; rural society; Moravia; Cisleithania
AB During the 19th century there were changes within collective identities, where the thought of national belonging became gradually the most important identification element. The formation of national thought in the 19th century represents a long and complicated process, which was developed asynchronically considering the social stratification of the population and region. We can talk about several different phases when we discuss the spread of the national thinking in Moravia, where there were many different social groups pulled into the swirl of the national life and the national thoughts became prevalent in not yet so unambiguous regions. The national thoughts finally became the main integrating thought in the last quarter of the 19th century. The study focuses on the analysis of the penetration of the Czech national thought into the rural area of the Northwest Moravia, in which the national thinking pushed through late. The author delimits each phase of national activation and he examines the means through which the national thoughts transmit into the rural area. These outer impulses gradually find their response, they are reciprocated and subsequently they are cultivated with the help of the local active inhabitants, who made the thought their own.
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