"Mountain Men" on "Iron Horses": National Space in the Representations of New Railway Lines in InterWar Czechoslovakia

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

"Mountain Men" on "Iron Horses": National Space in the Representations of New Railway Lines in InterWar Czechoslovakia

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

When Czechoslovakia was founded in October 1918, only a single main line connected Slovakia with the Bohemian Lands: the privately-owned railway between Slovak Košice (Kassa, Kaschau) and Silesian Bohumín (Oderberg). In order to address this problem and firmly link both parts of the country, the government launched a major construction programme of fifteen new lines that transformed the railway network of Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia. The article focuses on the ceremonies that accompanied the opening of new construction projects and completed lines. It examines the projects as discursive events that shaped not only the Czechoslovak public&apos;s view of the railway network, but also of their country&apos;s territory and landscape. Outwardly, the ceremonies celebrated the new railway lines as expressions of the unity of the Czechoslovak nation. At the same time, the discourse created a geographical hierarchy by depicting Slovakia and Ruthenia as objects of a Czech civilizing mission. The article suggests that this Czech paternalism indicates the limits to Czechoslovak national unity in the inter-war period.

Název v anglickém jazyce

"Mountain Men" on "Iron Horses": National Space in the Representations of New Railway Lines in InterWar Czechoslovakia

Popis výsledku anglicky

When Czechoslovakia was founded in October 1918, only a single main line connected Slovakia with the Bohemian Lands: the privately-owned railway between Slovak Košice (Kassa, Kaschau) and Silesian Bohumín (Oderberg). In order to address this problem and firmly link both parts of the country, the government launched a major construction programme of fifteen new lines that transformed the railway network of Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia. The article focuses on the ceremonies that accompanied the opening of new construction projects and completed lines. It examines the projects as discursive events that shaped not only the Czechoslovak public&apos;s view of the railway network, but also of their country&apos;s territory and landscape. Outwardly, the ceremonies celebrated the new railway lines as expressions of the unity of the Czechoslovak nation. At the same time, the discourse created a geographical hierarchy by depicting Slovakia and Ruthenia as objects of a Czech civilizing mission. The article suggests that this Czech paternalism indicates the limits to Czechoslovak national unity in the inter-war period.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Bohemia: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kunst der böhmischen Länder

ISSN

0523-8587

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

56

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

437-455

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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