Austro-German liberalism and Bohemian state rights, 1861-1879

Title:

Austro-German liberalism and Bohemian state rights, 1861-1879

Creator:

Kwan, Jonathan

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:963682e6-3046-46c7-80b2-a053cd908189
uuid:963682e6-3046-46c7-80b2-a053cd908189

Subject:

Bohemia, nationalism, liberalism, constitution, parliament, German politics, Czech politics, Austro-German liberals, and Bohemian state rights

Type:

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Format:

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Description:

This article aims to investigate the viewpoint of the Austro-German liberal movement - both ideologically and practically - towards the arguments for Bohemian state rights made by the conservative Bohemian Great Landowners and Czech political parties in the period from 1861 to 1879. The February Patent of 1861 is a convenient starting point because it reintroduced representative bodies to the Habsburg Monarchy and facilitatedthe development of modern democratic politics. The 1879 parliamentary election is this article’s end point since it constituted a significant turning point in Austrian and Bohemian politics. The Austro-German liberals lost the majority in central parliament while the conservative Bohemian Great Landowners and Czech parties attended parliament after a sixteen-year absence, joining the conservative-Slav coalition supporting the government. The principal argument is that while the Austro-German liberals (particularly the Bohemian-German faction) were generally opposed to Bohemian state rights, this must be qualifi ed by the genuine desire for compromise (under certain conditions), considerable tactical fl exibility and the wider Imperial context. Chronologically, the article focuses on key parliamentary debates to illustrate the changing relations: the fluid 1860s, the crucial period from 1867 to 1871 (when there was a real possibility of Bohemian state rights) through to the turning point of 1879. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

109-150

Source:

Střed: časopis pro mezioborová studia střední Evropy 19. a 20. století | 2016 Volume:8 | Number:1

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