Alexander Maxwell completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2003. He has won a Merian postdoctoral fellowship at Erfurt University, and a Europa fellowship at the New Europe College in Bucharest. He has taught at City University in Bratislava, the University of Wales at Swansea, and the University of Nevada at Reno. He is presently working at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.

• List of FiguresNote on ConventionsAcknowledgements1. National Awakening and Contingency2. The Hungarian Context3. Hungaro-Slavism: Imagining a Slavic Hungary4. Slovak Theories of Dual Nationality5. The Slavic Language6. Linguistic Czechoslovakism Before 18437. ?udovít Štúr and Slovak Tribalism8. The Dialect Argument and Slovak Literacy9. Czechoslovakia as a Slovakizing StateNotesBibliographyIndex