The history of the Czecho-Slovaks has been set forth for Western readers principally in the masterly works of Professor Ernest Denis: La Fin de l’indépendance bohème. 2 vols. Paris, 1890. La Bohème depuis la Montagne-Blanche. 2 vols. Paris, 1903. Les Slovaques. Paris, 1917.
Valuable descriptions of the progress and situation of the Czecho-Slovaks before the War are to be found in: W. S. Monroe, Bohemia and the Čechs. Boston, 1910. T. Čapek (ed.), Bohemia under Hapsburg Misrule. New York, 1915. Z. V. Tobolka (ed.), Das böhmische Volk. Prague, 1916. H. Rauchberg, Der nationale Besitzstand in Böhmen. 2 vols. Leipzig, 1905. (The most detailed and comprehensive study of the nationality situation in Bohemia.)
Czecho-Slovak claims and aspirations are well formulated by Dr. Edouard Beneš in Bohemia’s Case for Independence, London, 1917.
A detailed discussion of the new frontiers of German Austria (with a map) is contained in the article by Dr. E. de Martonne, “Le traité de St.-Germain et le démembrement de l’Autriche,” in Annales de géographie, Jan. 15, 1920. See also the article on “The New Boundaries of Austria” in The Geographical Journal, Nov., 1919, and N. Krebs, “Deutsch-Oesterreich,” in Geographische Zeitschrift, vol. xxv, 2-4 Hft.
The nationality situation in the regions most in dispute along Austria’s new frontiers is best described, perhaps, in: A. Brunialti, Le nuove Provincie italiane, i: Il Trentino. Turin, 1919. Montanus, Die nationale Entwicklung Tirols in den letzten Jahrzehnten. Vienna, 1918. M. Pirker, “Die Zukunft Kärntens,” in the Oesterreichische Rundschau, Dec. 1, 1918. J. Bunzel, “Das deutsche Westungarn,” in the same number of the review just cited.
FOOTNOTES:
[50] J. Ellis Barker, “The Ultimate Fate of Austria-Hungary,” in The Nineteenth Century, vol. 76 (2), p. 1006.
[51] H. Wickham Steed, The Habsburg Monarchy, p. 8.
[52] Cited in Chéradame, L’Europe et la question d’Autriche, p. 3.
[53] Cited in The New Europe, ii, pp. 30, 227.