From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe has produced more history than any region on earth, for bad and for good. But where is it? And how does a critical historian write its history? Nationalists argue that nations are eternal, Connelly argues that they formed recently: in the 1780s, when the Habsburgs attempted to make their subjects German, thereby causing a panic among Hungarians and Czechs that they might disappear from history. The region's boundaries are the boundaries of a certain painful knowledge: that nations come and go, and urgently require protection.

[@robman102]

Starts at 4:50

[@cdgncgn]

1:21:31 read either schul or schol - thyss. In hungarian it is Soltés, in Slovak it is Šoltýs, It was a thing that I believe Maria Theresa disbanded as a kind of bureau. Shol-tees Or Shul-tees. I think its from Nuernberg law/organization. Probably in use from 1200s. Old German was not read like ei - stein was 'styn', etc. Schultheiss/Scholtheiss - shol/shul-tees.

[@tdsims1963]

Well done!