Graduation Year

2012

Document Type

Thesis

Degree

M.A.

Degree Granting Department

History

Major Professor

Graydon A. Tunstall, Ph.D.

Committee Member

Kees Botterbloem, Ph.D.

Committee Member

Giovanna Benadusi, Ph.D.

Keywords

Austria, Croat, Hungary, Serb, Slovene

Abstract

The national development of the ethnic groups of the Habsburg Monarchy were influenced by the policies undertaken toward them by their rulers, the Austrian Germans and, after 1867, the Magyars of Hungary. Contrasts can be identified between those groups living in the Austrian part of the Monarchy and those living in the Kingdom of Hungary, a trend that can be identified in the Monarchy's South Slav populations (Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes), as this population inhabited territories on both sides of the dualist border. The present study examines the differences in the nationality policies toward the South Slavs on the part of the governments of Cisleithanian Austria and the Kingdom of Hungary during the decades prior to the First World War. The concluding section examines how these nationality policies influenced the post-1914 development of the South Slav groups.

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