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Reviews / East Central Europe 38 (2011) 155–167 161 Alexander Maxwell. Choosing Slovakia: Slavic Hungary, the Czechoslovak Language and Accidental Nationalism . London: I. B. Tauris, 2009. 288 pp. ISBN: 978-1-8488-5074-3. In his book Choosing Slovakia, American historian Alexander Maxwell ambitiously set out to entirely reframe the birth of Slovak nationalism. Maxwell spent considerable time in research institutions of Hungary, Romania, and Germany, and thus knows the history of the region in depth. Th is knowledge has enabled him to publish several innovative studies on the history of nationalism, including this, his fi rst monograph. Th e main question of Choosing Slovakia is the process by which the peasants of Upper Hungary, lacking any national identity, became modern Slovaks. However, this issue is reframed by Maxwell, who also asks why these peasants did not become something else: pan-Slavs, Magyars, or Czechoslovaks? Th e main arguments here are based on the evolution of the concepts in the Slovak language, supported by the author’s con- vincing linguistic analysis. Maxwell writes that due to the French Revolution and the ideas of the Enlightenment the concept of the Hungarian noble (feudal) nation collapsed and a more modern idea, state patriot- ism, the
East Central Europe – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2011
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