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John Rhŷs was 36 when, in February 1877, he was elected to be the first Jesus Professor of Celtic in the University of Oxford. Zeuss’s work offered an ideal launching pad for the comparative and historical study of the Celtic languages. In 1874 Rhŷs gave lectures at the recently founded college at Aberystwyth and these were published in 1877 as Lectures on Welsh Philology, the same year that he was elected to be the first Jesus Professor of Celtic in the University of Oxford. Rhŷs was discussing the relationships between the Celtic languages. For Rhŷs in 1877 Brythonic and Goidelic would have been very close before the Roman conquest of Britain in the first century AD. By the time of the first edition of his Celtic Britain in 1882, Rhŷs’s views had changed fundamentally. At the same time, Rhŷs’s views on the relationship between the Celtic languages had radically changed.

AbstractThis book contains a collection of essays addressing a number of wide-ranging, interrelated themes spanning over 200 years of the Habsburg Empire. The book is a political, religious, cultural and social history of a broad but often neglected swathe of the European continent. It seeks — against the grain of conventional presentations — to apprehend the era from the late-seventeenth to late-nineteenth century as a whole. Casting light on key aspects of the evolution towards modern statehood in Central Europe, it also dwells on the crises of ancien-regime structures there, in the face of new challenges both at home and abroad. Much attention is devoted to the Austrian or Habsburg lands, especially the interplay of the main territories which comprised them. A further central issue analysed is the evolution of the kingdom of Hungary, from its full acquisition by the Habsburgs at the beginning of the period to the emergence of the dual Austro-Hungarian Monarchy at the end. More than this though, the book examines the individual character of the essay as a genre.

<p>The formation of Czechoslovakia introduced a remarkable novelty into the heart of the European continent after World War I. It was an unexpected creation and a completely new state, whereas its neighbours as successors to the Habsburg Monarchy either carried historic names and connections (Austria, Hungary, Poland), or were reincarnations of existing sovereign realms (Yugoslavia), or both (Rumania). Moreover, Czechoslovakia seemed uniquely to embody the ideals of the post-war settlement, as a polity with strongly western, democratic, and participatory elements. Yet Czechoslovakia was a historical construct, deeply rooted in earlier developments. It constitutes classic terrain for a study of the ‘nationalist and fascist Europe’ which emerged after 1918. This book deals with the history of Czechoslovakia and discusses Czech nationalism, along with the Czechs' relationship with Slovaks and Germans, Britain's policy towards Czechoslovakia, and gender and citizenship in the first Czechoslovak Republic.</p>