Bohemia under Hapsburg Misrule / A Study of the Ideals and Aspirations of the Bohemian and Slovak Peoples, as They Relate to and Are Affected by the Great European War

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CONTENTS

I. Have the Bohemians a Place in the Sun?	[17]
Thomas Čapek.
II. The Slovaks of Hungary	[113]
Thomas Čapek.
III. Why Bohemia Deserves Freedom	[123]
Professor Bohumil Šimek.
IV. The Bohemian Character	[130]
Professor H. A. Miller.
V. Place of Bohemia in the Creative Arts	[153]
Professor Will S. Monroe.
VI. The Bohemians and the Slavic Regeneration	[160]
Professor Leo Wiener.
Addenda. The Bohemians as Immigrants	[176]
Professor Emily G. Balch.

I
HAVE THE BOHEMIANS A PLACE IN THE SUN?

Bohemia (German Böhmen, Bohemian Čechy[1]) has an area of 20,223 square miles, and is bounded on the north by Saxony and Prussian Silesia; on the east by Prussia and Moravia; on the south by Lower Austria; on the west by Bavaria. According to the census of 1910, 4,241,918 inhabitants declared for Bohemian and 2,467,724 for the German language.

Historians recognize two epochal events in the life of the nation. The first begins with the outbreak of the Hussite wars, following the death of King Václav IV. in 1419; the second, with the battle of White Mountain in 1620. The period intervening between the first two events is referred to as the Middle Age. That which preceded the Hussite wars is called the Old Age, and, that which followed the defeat at White Mountain, the New Age.