Introduction: The GOlden Republic
1. Myth and Wartime
2. The Castle
3. Battles of the Legend-Makers
4. Difficulties Abroad
5. A Time of Iron and Fire
Epilogue
Notes
Andrea Orzoff is Associate Professor of History at New Mexico State University.
"Andrea Orzoff is superbly qualified as the author of this book,
not only because she has immersed herself inthe relevant primary
and secondary literature on the topic but also because of her
background in journalism, which was the primary tool for spreading
the myth. She also shows that national questions remain an
important part of the historical agenda in Central Europe when
historical actors define them as important."--American Historical
Review
"Battle for the Castle is a stimulating and imaginative history of
statecraft in interwar Czechoslovakia....[It] is an important,
engaging, and lucid study of Czechoslovakia's political culture,
and of its struggle for legitimacy....[E]ssential reading for
anyone who hopes to understand the vexed history of democracy and
nation-making in twentieth-century Europe."--H-Net
"[Battle for the Castle] does a great job in tying together the
simultaneous use of myth in nation building at home and in
promoting the state's image and interests abroad...Andrea Orzoff
has taken her place among [an] impressive cohort of
English-language historians of Czechoslovakia."--Slavic Review
"This well-written and researched study will be essential to anyone
interested not only in Czechoslovak interwar history, but also in
the impact of various national myths on our recent
history."--Zbysek Brezina, History Today Books
"Battle for the Castle-the story of a myth-is more broadly a story
about what it means to be European-and what it means to be a small
East-Central European country coveting the support of the West. The
book will be of interest to all those who want to understand more
about those peculiarly fascinating years between the two world
wars."--Marci Shore, author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw
Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968
"Propaganda and myth, as Andrea Orzoff shows in this impressively
researched and powerfully argued book, not only helped bring
Czechoslovakia into existence after World War I; they informed
nearly every aspect of interwar Czechoslovakia's political culture
and foreign policy efforts. Anyone interested in cultural
diplomacy, the failure of interwar European democracies, and
relationships between modern media and political power should read
Battle for the
Castle."--Chad Bryant, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
"Battle for the Castle embodies the finest qualities of
intellectual and cultural history as they are practiced today.
Offering nuanced insights on the character of inter-war Prague's
civil society, Andrea Orzoff takes us behind the scenes in the
Castle, in editorial offices, in board rooms, in cafes, and in
private homes, to reveal just who created the Masaryk myths, who
financed and propagated them, and what critical political functions
they served
both domestically and internationally."--Pieter M. Judson,
Swarthmore College
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