Nations Apart

Czech Nationalism and Authoritarian Welfare under Nazi Rule

Radka ^D%Sustrová (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

384 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-726763-9 (ISBN)

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Focusing on the striking contradiction between destruction and care, violent repression, and the simultaneous development of the welfare state, Nations Apart brings a new revisionist interpretation of an occupied society.

Nations Apart reconsiders the Nazi occupation of Bohemia and Moravia during World War II. The dismemberment of Czechoslovakia after the 1938 Munich Agreement is typically recalled in Czech historical memory as the beginning of a period of humiliation, occupation, and resistance. Against this narrative of victimhood, %Sustrová argues that the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia witnessed the unexpected expansion of the Czech welfare state, a process driven by local nationalisms and which, in turn, contributed, inadvertently to the stability of Nazi governance. Through extensive research in Czech, German, and Swiss archives, Nations Apart demonstrates that ethnically exclusive Czech national ideology dominated politics and everyday life during Nazi rule. Illustrating similarities between the wartime 'Protectorate' and the occupation regimes in Western Europe, %Sustrová sheds new light on occupied societies during WWII and on the ambiguous origins of welfare states in post-war Europe.

Radka %Sustrová is a lecturer in Social History at Charles University in Prague. She studied history and political science in Prague and Berlin. Her research focuses on the history of the welfare state, social justice, social and labour rights, women's activism, and nationalism in 20th-century central Europe. From 2020 to 2022, she was a British Academy Newton International Fellow and supervisor in history at the University of Cambridge. In 2022, she was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship at the University of Vienna. Her further publications include three books, several edited volumes, and articles in English, German, and Czech.

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Note on the Text and Transliteration
Abbreviations
Maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: Social Security during State-Building
2: The 'Autumn Revolution' and the Reconstruction of the State and Society
3: Community-Building through Authoritarian Welfare
4: Towards Workfare Communities
5: Health Care in Warfare
6: Family Policies for Segregated Nations
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.02.2024
Reihe/Serie	British Academy Monographs
Zusatzinfo	3 mono maps, 14 colour images
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Gewicht	912 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-726763-7 / 0197267637
ISBN-13	978-0-19-726763-9 / 9780197267639
Zustand	Neuware