The Slovak National Awakening by Peter Brock PAPERBACK 9781442652316

The Slovak National Awakening\nby Peter Brock\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Peter Brock\nTitle: The Slovak National Awakening\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: European history\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 1976\nISBN-13: 9781442652316\nISBN-10: 1442652314\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe Slovaks lived under Hungarian rule for centuries, with no clear sense of political separateness, preserving Slovak as their spoken language, but using Czech as their written language. In the last decades of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries, the efforts made by clerical intellectuals to develop a language more closely attuned to Slovak needs led to the rise of Slovak nationalism.\nThe Slovak National Awakening describes the three major st.