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1 online resource |
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Bloomsbury academic collections. History: European history |
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Bloomsbury academic collections. History. European history.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations. Note on Proper Names; Introduction; Location and distribution; Sorb, Wend, or Lusatian; National status; Sorbian studies; 1 History; Prehistory and the earliest sources; Slavonic migrations; German expansion; Unity with Poland; Christianization; United under the Czech Crown; Limited use of Sorbian by the Church; The Thirty Tears War; Sorbian students; The Congress of Vienna; Economic changes; Social changes; The intelligentsia; National consciousness and Panslavism |
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The events of 1848The students' societies; The 'Macica Serbska'; Construction of the 'Sorbian House'; The unification of Germany 1871; The World War 1914-18 and claims for independence; Under the Weimar Republic; The Nazi Period 1933-45; The Liberation; 2 Literature; Early Sorbian literature; The beginnings of journalism; Poetry before Handrij Zejler; Rudolf Mjen; Handrij Zejler; After Zejler; Jan Radyserb-Wjela; Fan Mucink; The literary journals; Lower Sorbian writers; Fakub Bart-Cisinski; Into the twentieth century; The revival; Developments since 1945; 3 Language |
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Relation to the other Slavonic languagesPosition with in the West Slavonic group; Exclusively Sorbian features; I. Innovations; II. Survivals; Two languages or one?; The dialects: features distinguishing Upper from Lower Sorbian; Transitional dialects; Upper Sorbian dialects; Lower Sorbian dialects; Early history; Development of the standard languages; Secularization and purism; Europeanisms and Czech loans; Standardization of Lower Sorbian; Unification of Protestant and Catholic variants; Plans for unification of Upper and Lower Sorbian; Increased Catholic influence; 4 Folkways and Folklore |
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TraditionNational costumes; Easter customs; The Spinning Evenings; Other customs; Folk-literature; Local legends; Folktales; Folk-art; Folklore and nationality; 5 Music; Folk-music; The collection of folk-songs and folk-music; Smoler''s classification; Characteristics of the Sorbian folk-song; External influences; Musical composition; Korla Awgust Kocor; The Sorbian choral movement; Other composers; 6 The Position Today; Political; Education; Higher education and teacher supply; The language; Publishing; Newspapers and periodicals; Radio and television; The theatre; The 'Domowina? |
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Survival of traditions and folkloreSorbian studies and research; Prospects for the future; Select Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Stone's work on the Sorbian history, literature, language, folklore and music was the first book on the Sorbs to be published in the English language and offers a comprehensive account of the Sorbs which everyone with an interest in the history of the Slavic nations in Europe should be aware of |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
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Sorbs
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TRAVEL -- Europe -- General.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
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Sorbs
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| SUBJECT |
Lusatia (Germany) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078950
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| Subject |
Germany -- Lusatia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474241540 |
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1474241549 |
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