• English
  • Magyar
  • Română
  • Srpski
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

  • About us
    • Principal Investigator
    • Researchers
    • Research assistants
    • Visiting Fellow
    • Affiliate Researchers
    • Advisory Board
    • Contact Us
  • COMPETITION
  • Events
    • Project Conference
    • Project Workshop, Lecture, Roundtable
    • Project Seminar
    • Other Dissemination
    • NEPOSTRANS Seminar Series
  • Results
    • Publications in Books
    • Publications in Journals
    • Other Publicity
  • 100 Years Later
  • Partners
  • Show Search
Hide Search

Abstracts Claire Morelon

Lívia Prosinger · June 26, 2019 ·

Continuity, Legitimacy, and Authority at the Local Level: The “New” State in Prague

 

This paper will investigate the nature of state-society relations in the 1918 transition from the Habsburg Empire to the Czechoslovak Republic in Prague. The war sacrifices and the creation of a republic had generated expectations of radical change that were disappointed in the immediate aftermath of the conflict. The Czechoslovak state had in many cases taken over institutions and practices from the previous regime. These elements of continuity undermined the new state’s legitimacy in the eyes of many Prague residents. The paper will examine various channels of interactions between the state and citizens as the state was embodied in various institutions. It will especially focus on the ways this relationship could be manifested in urban space: which uniforms conveyed state authorities, which buildings demonstrators targeted in their protests, what was the new symbolic geography of power in the city. Prague residents also tried to shape the look of public spaces through complaint, violence, or performance. Using police records, this study will delineate the contours of both state presence and participation in the state management through ordinary citizens. Special attention will be paid to the legacies of wartime administration, rationing systems at the state and municipal levels, and military-civilian relations. Focusing on the case study of this new capital city, this paper will shed light on the interactions between the local, national, and imperial levels in the 1918 transition.

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Primary Sidebar

Our recent posts

  • Közép és Kelet-Európa új történetei? / New Histories for Central and Eastern Europe?
  • Breaking Away: Micronations, Microstates, and the Contestation of Sovereignty in East Central Europe, 1918–Present
  • AIMEE M. GENELL: Sovereignty and Autonomy in the Late Ottoman Empire
  • VERONIKA SZEGHY-GAYER: State-Rupture and Civil Service Career Paths on the Territory of Slovakia, 1918–1948
  • TAMÁS VONYÓ and MÁRIA HIDVÉGI: Spoils of war: The military contractors of the Habsburg Empire in World War I  
  • Marriage Under the Bolsheviks: What A Forgery Charge against Worker Officials Reveals about Post-World War Hungary
  • SARA SILVERSTEIN: A Public Health Entente: Transnational Public Health in Post-Imperial Europe
  • MAEVA BERGHMANS: Towards a Czechoslovak Nation: Victimhood as Identity
  • NATASHA WHEATLEY: The Life and Death of States: The Habsburg Empire and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty
  • Christopher Wendt in Schlanders, South Tyrol

Footer

a

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Webdesign Budapest