424-stranová publikácia kolektívu autorov o histórii Slovenska v anglickom jazyku. Viazané vydanie obsahuje 19 ilustrácii a 5 máp.
Anotácia v angličtine:
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 state 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.
Knihu redakčne pripravili:
Mikuláš Teich, Robinson College, Cambridge
Dušan Kováč, Slovenská akadémia vied
Martin D. Brown, Richmond z The American International University, Londýn
Obsah:
Slovakia, the Slovaks and their history Dušan Kováč
The Duchy of Nitra Ján Steinhübel
The beginnings of the nobility in Slovakia Ján Lukačka
Medieval towns Vladimír Segeš
Renaissance and humanist tendencies in Slovakia Eva Frimmová
The period of religious disturbances in Slovakia Viliam Čičaj
The Enlightenment and the beginnings of the modern Slovak nation Eva Kowalská
Slovak Slavism and Pan-Slavism Ľudovít Haraksim
The Slovak political programme: from Hungarian patriotism to the Czecho-Slovak state Dušan Kováč
Slovakia in Czechoslovakia (1918–1938) Natália Krajčovičová
Slovakia from the Munich conference to the declaration of independence Valerián Bystrický
The Slovak state, 1939–1945 Ivan Kamenec
The Slovak question and the resistance movement during the Second World War Jan Rychlík
The Slovak National Uprising: the most dramatic moment in the nation's history Vilém Prečan
The Slovak question, 1945–1948 Michal Barnovský
Czechoslovakism in Slovak history Elisabeth Bakke
The Magyar minority in Slovakia before and after the Second World War Štefan Šutaj
The establishment of totalitarianism in Slovakia after the February coup of 1948 and the culmination of mass persecution, 1948–1953 Jan Pešek
Slovakia and the attempt to reform socialism in Czechoslovakia, 1963–1969 Stanislav Sikora
Slovakia's position within the Czecho-Slovak federation, 1968–1970 Jozef Žatkuliak
Slovakia under communism, 1948–1989: controversial developments in the economy, society and culture Miroslav Londák and Elena Londáková
The fall of communism and the establishment of an independent Slovakia Michal Štefanský
Afterword: Slovakia in history Mikuláš Teich.
