From Pittsburgh to Pressburg : the transatlantic Slovak national movement, 1880-1920
Between 1870 and 1920, half a million Slovak-speaking migrants left the Kingdom of Hungary for the United States of America. They represented one fifth of the worldâs Slovak-speaking population. During this mass, transatlantic Slovak migration, Slovak nationalism in Hungary was transformed from a fringe idea into a serious political goal. The resulting Slovak national movement helped create the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938), a state whose mostly Czech leaders pledged to support Slovak national rights. The multilingual region known as âUpper Hungaryâ from which Slovak-speakers had left was given a new, ethnically-based name: Slovakia, which was imagined as a national, territorial homeland for Slovak speakers, and still in existence today. This critical period of change in Slovak nationalist thought has yet to be properly understood. This is because scholarship on Slovak nationalism in the new world has been artificially separated from research into Slovak nationalism in the old country. Although the role played by the emerging Slovak American community in campaigning for a Czecho-Slovak state during the First World War has been recognised, the wider significance of Slovak American political
O'Donnell, Stephen
From Pittsburgh to Pressburg : the transatlantic Slovak national movement, 1880-1920. Between 1870 and 1920, half a million Slovak-speaking migrants left the Kingdom of Hungary for the United States of America. They represented one fifth of the worldâs Slovak-speaking population. During this mass, transatlantic Slovak migration, Slovak nationalism in Hungary was transformed from a fringe idea into a serious political goal. The resulting Slovak national movement helped create the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938), a state whose mostly Czech leaders pledged to support Slovak national rights. The multilingual region known as âUpper Hungaryâ from which Slovak-speakers had left was given a new, ethnically-based name: Slovakia, which was imagined as a national, territorial homeland for Slovak speakers, and still in existence today. This critical period of change in Slovak nationalist thought has yet to be properly understood. This is because scholarship on Slovak nationalism in the new world has been artificially separated from research into Slovak nationalism in the old country. Although the role played by the emerging Slovak American community in campaigning for a Czecho-Slovak state during the First World War has been recognised, the wider significance of Slovak American political
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