O PROCESU NASTANKA SUVREMENE HRVATSKE NACIJE U ISTRI - SKICA ZA BUDUĆA ISTRAŽIVANJA
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MODERN CROATIAN NATION IN ISTRIA - A DRAUGHT FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
Author(s): Nevio ŠetićSubject(s): Political history, Social history, 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Politics and Identity
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: Beginnings of the modern Croatian nation; Istria; National integration;
Summary/Abstract: Among the most important topics of contemporary Istrian history is research of the emergence of the modern Croatian nation. The author argues that it is possible to interpret this process only through an integral approach considering the period from the 1830s to the 1950s, Le. to the present. He builds his concept according to Czech scientist Miroslav Hroch's model adapted to the Croatian situation by historian Mirjana Gross. Clinging to this methodological concept the emergence of the modern Croatian nation is viewed in four developmental phases: the initial, middle, interphase and final phase of the national integration of Istrian Croats. The author qualifies this process as multi-Iayered and long-lasting and often suppressed and thwarted, but indicates that today it represents a lasting and durable achievement of the Istrian Croats and Croats in general, including them among the sovereign and free nations of Europe and the World.
Journal: Društvena istraživanja - Časopis za opća društvena pitanja
- Issue Year: 2/1993
- Issue No: 06+07
- Page Range: 587-605
- Page Count: 19
- Language: Croatian