This dissertation on the History of Emigration from the Czech Lands to Brazil in the 19th century focuses on the evidence of Czech nationals in Brazil in a much deeper and more extensive scope than can be found in existing works and research. The topic of this paper describes in detail the life stories of individuals as well as whole families whose origins are Czech, yet whose awareness of "being Czech" has partially or completely faded over time. Czech emigrants left for Brazil (regarding the period my work deals with) as citizens of Austria, or Austria-Hungary, as the union came into existence in 1867. Moreover, many of them were ethnic Germans living in Czech, who later mostly joined German colonies in Brazil. The vast majority of papers concentrates on the issues of emigration in the context of countries where German was spoken, without elaborating further on the countries themselves, despite Austria, later Austria-Hungary, being a multinational state. The country covered a territory comprising several nations of various cultures as well as various official languages. The aim of the dissertation is to single out individuals from the "German group" whose origins can be clearly proved by birth in the Czech Kingdom, or to be more precise, in the territory of today's Czech Republic. In addition,...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:398530 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Polakovič, Petr |
| Contributors | Binková, Simona, Janská, Eva, Buben, Radek |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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