The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1914

The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1914

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Author/Contributor(s): Stauter-Halsted, Keely
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date: 12/09/2004
Binding: Paperback
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How do peasants come to embrace nationalist sentiment? Exploring the complex case of Poles in Austrian Galicia, the author challenges the widely-accepted argument that national sentiment originates among intellectuals or urban middle classes, then "trickles down" to peasants and the proletariat.