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Book Synopsis A History of the Czech Lands by : Jaroslav Pánek
Download or read book A History of the Czech Lands written by Jaroslav Pánek and published by Karolinum Press, Charles University. This book was released on 2009 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a systematic history from prehistory to the establishment of the Czech Republic.
Book Synopsis The History of the Czech Republic and Slovakia by : William Mahoney
Download or read book The History of the Czech Republic and Slovakia written by William Mahoney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey of Czech and Slovak history traces the development of two neighboring peoples through the creation of a common Czechoslovakian state in 1918 to the founding of the independent Czech and Slovak Republics in 1993 and beyond. The History of the Czech Republic and Slovakia charts historical developments in the two nations to the opening decade of the 21st century. The book begins with an overview of the geography, climate, people, economy, and government of both the Czech and Slovak republics. Subsequent chapters offer a chronologically organized survey of historical events, trends, ideas, and people. Starting with the early Slavic settlements around the 5th century AD, the book explores Czech and Slovak history through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Early Modern eras, the Enlightenment, and the age of nationalism and revolution. Chapters on the 20th century include discussion of the World Wars, the interwar Czechoslovak state, the Communist decades, the Prague Spring, and the Velvet Revolution of 1989. The story is brought up to date with insights into developments in the independent Czech and Slovak republics since 1993.
Author :Jaroslav Pánek Publisher :Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press ISBN 13 :8024622270 Total Pages :745 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (246 download)
Book Synopsis A History of the Czech Lands by : Jaroslav Pánek
Download or read book A History of the Czech Lands written by Jaroslav Pánek and published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born January 1, 1993 after it split with Slovakia, the Czech Republic is one of the youngest members of the European Union. Despite its youth as a nation, this land and the areas just outside its modern borders boasts an ancient and intricate past. With A History of the Czech Lands, editors Jaroslav Pánek and Oldrich Tuma—along with several scholars from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Charles University—provide one of the most complete historical accounts of this region to date. Pánek and Tuma’s history begins in the Neolithic era and follows the development of the state as it transformed into the Kingdom of Bohemia during the ninth century, into Czechoslovakia after World War I, and finally into the Czech Republic. Such a tumultuous political past arises in part from a fascinating native people, and A History of the Czech Lands profiles the Czechs in great detail, delving into past and present traditions and explaining how generation after generation adapted to a perpetually changing government and economy. In addition, Pánek and Tuma examine the many minorities that now call these lands home—Jews, Slovaks, Poles, Germans, Ukrainians, and others—and how each group’s migration to the region has contributed to life in the Czech Republic today. The first study in English with this scope and ambition, A History of the Czech Lands is essential for scholars of Slavic, Central, and East European studies and a must-read for those who trace their ancestry to these lands
Book Synopsis The Czech Lands in Medieval Transformation by : Jan Klapste
Download or read book The Czech Lands in Medieval Transformation written by Jan Klapste and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a key to several important chapters of the history of Czech lands, firmly anchoring them in a broad European context. The Medieval transformation that impacted the Czech lands mostly in the 13th century is seen as a broad cultural change in which domestic preconditions encountered a system of innovations already evolved in West Central Europe. The main topics analysed are the onset of landed nobility, the transformation of the rural milieu, and the early history of towns. This analysis draws on every source category, including written testimony, archaeological findings, and architectural monuments. Inspired by microhistorical methodology, it does not indulge in general schemes but studies carefully chosen samples of the transformation and its natural differentiations. Winner of the 2012 Book Prize of the Early Slavic Studies Association.
Book Synopsis The Sokol in the Czech Lands to 1914 by : C. Nolte
Download or read book The Sokol in the Czech Lands to 1914 written by C. Nolte and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-09-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This overview of the history of the Sokol, the Czech nationalist gymnastic organization, from its founding in 1862 until the outbreak of World War I emphasizes its role in articulating national values and facilitating mass mobilization in the political context of the multinational Habsburg state. By including background on the German Turnverein , this study goes beyond the Czech context to explore the intersection of gymnastics and mass nationalism in Central Europe.
Book Synopsis The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown by : Hugh LeCaine Agnew
Download or read book The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown written by Hugh LeCaine Agnew and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first up-do-date, single volume history of the Czechs, Agnew provides an introduction to the major themes and contours of Czech history for the general reader from prehistory and the first Slavs to the Czech Republic's entry into the European Union."
Download or read book The Czech Reader written by Jan Bažant and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Starn is a writer living in Berkeley, California. --Book Jacket.
Book Synopsis Hastening Toward Prague by : Lisa Wolverton
Download or read book Hastening Toward Prague written by Lisa Wolverton and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study in English of Czech society and politics in the High Middle Ages. It paints a vivid portrait of a flourishing Christian community in the decades between 1050 and 1200. Bohemia's social and political landscape remained remarkably cohesive, centered on a throne in Prague, the Premyslid duke who occupied it, a society of property-owning freemen, and the ascendant Catholic church. In decades fraught with political violence, these provided a focal point for Czech identity and political order. In this, the Czechs' heavenly patron, Saint Vaclav, and the German emperor beyond their borders too had a role to play. An impressive, systematic dissection of a medieval polity, Hastening Toward Prague is based on a close rereading of written and material artifacts from the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Arguing against a view that puts state or nation formation at heart, Wolverton examines interactions among dukes, emperors, freemen, and the church on their own terms, asking what powers the dukes of Bohemia possessed and how they were exercised within a broader political community. Evaluating not only the foundations and practice of ducal lordship but also the form and progress of resistance to it, she argues in particular that violence was not a sign of political instability but should be interpreted as reflecting a dynamic economy of checks and balances in a fluid, mature political system. This also reveals the values and strategies that sustained the Czech Lands as a community. The study honors the complexity and dynamism of the medieval exercise of power.
Book Synopsis Languages of Community by : Hillel J. Kieval
Download or read book Languages of Community written by Hillel J. Kieval and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-12-26 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a keen eye for revealing details, Hillel J. Kieval examines the contours and distinctive features of Jewish experience in the lands of Bohemia and Moravia (the present-day Czech Republic), from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century. In the Czech lands, Kieval writes, Jews have felt the need constantly to define and articulate the nature of group identity, cultural loyalty, memory, and social cohesiveness, and the period of "modernizing" absolutism, which began in 1780, brought changes of enormous significance. From that time forward, new relationships with Gentile society and with the culture of the state blurred the traditional outlines of community and individual identity. Kieval navigates skillfully among histories and myths as well as demography, biography, culture, and politics, illuminating the maze of allegiances and alliances that have molded the Jewish experience during these 200 years.
Download or read book Prague in Danger written by Peter Demetz and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic account of life in Czechoslovakia's great capital during the Nazi Protectorate With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his account of more than a thousand years of Central European history, the great scholar Peter Demetz focuses on just six short years—a tormented, tragic, and unforgettable time. He was living in Prague then—a "first-degree half-Jew," according to the Nazis' terrible categories—and here he joins his objective chronicle of the city under German occupation with his personal memories of that period: from the bitter morning of March 15, 1939, when Hitler arrived from Berlin to set his seal on the Nazi takeover of the Czechoslovak government, until the liberation of Bohemia in April 1945, after long seasons of unimaginable suffering and pain. Demetz expertly interweaves a superb account of the German authorities' diplomatic, financial, and military machinations with a brilliant description of Prague's evolving resistance and underground opposition. Along with his private experiences, he offers the heretofore untold history of an effervescent, unstoppable Prague whose urbane heart went on beating despite the deportations, murders, cruelties, and violence: a Prague that kept its German- and Czech-language theaters open, its fabled film studios functioning, its young people in school and at work, and its newspapers on press. This complex, continually surprising book is filled with rare human detail and warmth, the gripping story of a great city meeting the dual challenge of occupation and of war.
Book Synopsis Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in World Politics by : Ladislav Cabada
Download or read book Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in World Politics written by Ladislav Cabada and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on the description and analysis of the historical formation of the Czechoslovak and Czech positions in the international system during the course of the 20th century. The first part of the book presents a brief outline of the history of Czechoslovak foreign policy between the First World War and the end of the Cold War. The authors focus on the key periods and turning points in the role of the small Central European state in the international system as well as on the significant actors formulating Czechoslovak foreign policy from the inside and influencing it from the outside. The second, analytical part of the book focuses on the key issues connected to the change of the position of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic after 1993 in world politics, and on the formulation of Czech foreign policy priorities and strategies in the globalized world after the end of bipolar confrontation. The authors analytically investigate the activities of the Czech Republic in (Central) European regional integration processes and the integration of the state in the global system of development cooperation. A great deal of attention is paid to the key political actors of the Czech foreign policy discussion and their impact on the formulation of foreign policy goals. Special attention is paid to the dilemmas of Czech foreign policy: the hesitation between the role of a small state and a medium power and also the span of Czech foreign policy between Atlanticism, anti-Americanism and Europeanization.
Book Synopsis Bohemia in History by : Mikuláš Teich
Download or read book Bohemia in History written by Mikuláš Teich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-29 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the history of the Czech lands from the ninth century to the fall of socialism in 1989.
Book Synopsis A Brief History of the Czech Lands to 2004 by : Petr Čornej
Download or read book A Brief History of the Czech Lands to 2004 written by Petr Čornej and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Coasts of Bohemia by : Derek Sayer
Download or read book The Coasts of Bohemia written by Derek Sayer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-19 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of the Czech people, examining the significance of the small central European nation's artistic, literary, and political developments from its origins through approximately 1960.
Book Synopsis History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands by : Martin Wein
Download or read book History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands written by Martin Wein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands, Martin Wein traces the interaction of Czechs and Jews, but also of German-speakers, Slovaks, and other groups in the Bohemian lands and in Czechoslovakia throughout the first half of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis John of Moravia between the Czech Lands and the Patriarchate of Aquileia (ca. 1345–1394) by : Ondřej Schmidt
Download or read book John of Moravia between the Czech Lands and the Patriarchate of Aquileia (ca. 1345–1394) written by Ondřej Schmidt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical biography of John of Moravia, illegitimate member of the Luxembourg dynasty, provost of Vyšehrad, bishop of Litomyšl and eventually patriarch of Aquileia († 1394), in the wider context of the Czech and Italian history.
Book Synopsis Great Stories in Czech History by : Petr Čornej
Download or read book Great Stories in Czech History written by Petr Čornej and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
