Kidnapped Souls : National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900-1948.
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- 9780801461910
- Children and politics -- Czech Republic -- Bohemia -- History -- 20th century
- Children -- Government policy -- Czech Republic -- Bohemia -- History -- 20th century
- Nationalism -- Czech Republic -- Bohemia -- History -- 20th century
- Germans -- Czech Republic -- Bohemia -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Bohemia (Czech Republic) -- Ethnic relations
- Bohemia (Czech Republic) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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KIDNAPPED SOULS -- Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- Preface -- List of Archives and Abbreviations -- Note on Places and Names -- Introduction -- 1. "Czech Schools for Czech Children!" -- 2. Teachers, Orphans, and Social Workers -- 3. Warfare, Welfare, and the End of Empire -- 4. Reclaiming Children for the Nation -- 5. Freudian Nationalists and Heimat Activists -- 6. Borderland Children and Volkstumsarbeit under Nazi Rule -- 7. Stay-at-Home Nationalism -- 8. Reich-Loyal Czech Nationalism -- Epilogue -- Index.
Zahra shows how nationalists in the Bohemian Lands worked to forge political cultures in which children belonged more rightfully to the national collective than to their parents.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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