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Book Synopsis A Thousand Years of Czech Culture by :
Download or read book A Thousand Years of Czech Culture written by and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten essays by leading Czech scholars provide an overview of the artistic, historical, and religious trends at work in the Czech lands: the evolution of royalty and the Czech state, the religious conflicts that presaged the Protestant Reformation, the power and artistic impact of the Catholic Church from the Middle Ages to the baroque, and the rise of nationalism in the nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis There is No Czech Culture in Upper Hungary by : Lajos Steier
Download or read book There is No Czech Culture in Upper Hungary written by Lajos Steier and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Report on the Foreign Policy of the Czech Republic by :
Download or read book Report on the Foreign Policy of the Czech Republic written by and published by Ministerstvo zahraničních věcí České republiky. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Selected writings by : Roman Jakobson
Download or read book Selected writings written by Roman Jakobson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1985 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Czech Republic - Culture Smart! by : Nicole Rosenleaf Ritter
Download or read book Czech Republic - Culture Smart! written by Nicole Rosenleaf Ritter and published by Kuperard. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include * customs, values, and traditions * historical, religious, and political background * life at home * leisure, social, and cultural life * eating and drinking * dos, don'ts, and taboos * business practices * communication, spoken and unspoken "Culture Smart has come to the rescue of hapless travellers." Sunday Times Travel "... the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries." Global Travel "...full of fascinating-as well as common-sense-tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas." Observer "...as useful as they are entertaining." Easyjet Magazine "...offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world." New York Times
Book Synopsis Comparative Slavic Studies. The Cyrillo-Methodian Tradition by : Roman Jakobson
Download or read book Comparative Slavic Studies. The Cyrillo-Methodian Tradition written by Roman Jakobson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pt. 1. Comparative Slavic studies--the Cyrillo-Methodian tradition--pt. 2. Medieval slavic studies.
Book Synopsis T.G.Masaryk (1850-1937) by : Harry Hanak
Download or read book T.G.Masaryk (1850-1937) written by Harry Hanak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the wars a personality cult grew around Masaryk. These three volumes constitute the first balanced critical assessment of the actual achievement of the university professor who became the first president of Czechoslovakia. In this the first volume scholars from Europe and North America offer new insights into the career and ideas of Masaryk during the three decades preceding the outbreak of World War I. They appraise his role as critic of injustice and outworn tradition, providing a most significant interpretation of his place in modern history.
Book Synopsis Janacek: Years of a Life Volume 1 (1854-1914) by : John Tyrrell
Download or read book Janacek: Years of a Life Volume 1 (1854-1914) written by John Tyrrell and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Tyrrell's biography of the Leos Janácek is the culmination of a life's work in the field. It stands upon his existing documentary studies of Janácek's operas and translations of other key sources and his examination of thousands of still unpublished letters and other documents in the Janácek archive in Brno. Altogether it provides the most detailed account of Janácek's life in any language and offers new views of Janácek as composer, writer, thinker and human being. Volume 1, which goes up to the outbreak of the First World War and Janácek's sixtieth birthday in the summer of 1914, consists of chronological chapters providing a straightforward account of Janácek's life year by year and another forty contextual chapters. Topics include on-going sequences ('Music as autobiography I', etc.; 'Janácek's knowledge of opera I', etc.) and individual chapters on Janácek as a teacher, as a theorist, as an music ethnographer, on his speech-melody theory, his relationship to particularly influential operas (Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, Charpentier's Louise), on his mentors (such as Antonín Dvorák) and his bêtes noires (such as Karel Kovarovic). A particular feature are the specially commissioned chapters on Janácek's health by Dr Stephen Lock (one of the editors of the Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine, OUP 1994 and 2001, editor of the British Medical Journal, 1975-91, and a Janácek enthusiast since the early postwar broadasts on the Third Programme), and on Janácek's earnings and finances by Dr Jirí Zahrádka (curator of the Janácek archive in Brno, and editor of authentic editions of Sárka and The Excursions of Mr Broucek).
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Life Writing by : Margaretta Jolly
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Epoch written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Transregional versus National Perspectives on Contemporary Central European History by : Michal Vít
Download or read book Transregional versus National Perspectives on Contemporary Central European History written by Michal Vít and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume compares different regional perspectives on the national and democracy-building aims of individual states. It confronts discourses about national states to regional perspectives on the past as well as the current political and social landscape. Why are we observing calls for national identity right now? What are the roots of this development? How can a Central European identity be shaped when national perspectives are prevalent? The book's first part analyzes social and political processes that shaped nation-states in the Central European region and shows divergent trends of individual states when it comes to defining a regional approach of the Visegrád Group (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary = V4). The second part focuses on key personalities of the 20th century history of individual V4 countries in the light of their perception in the neighbouring states and how they shaped national states as well as identities after the end of World War II. Similar aims and approaches implemented by individual countries often led to anything but raising regional understanding. The book's third part reflects upon activities of various initiatives aiming to approach this challenge from the perspective of civil society, and Central Europe's young generation. The collection brings together leading historians of Central Europe from the V4 countries. It also offers external perspectives on historical developments in Central Europe from the perspective of the 21st century and on political cooperation as well as its roots. Lastly, it includes practitioners of Central European cooperation from both academia and civil society and their reflection on their countries' political cooperation after 1989.
Book Synopsis Publications of the Hungarian Frontier Readjustment League .... by : Magyar reviziós liga, Budapest
Download or read book Publications of the Hungarian Frontier Readjustment League .... written by Magyar reviziós liga, Budapest and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Unknown Europe by : James R. Payton
Download or read book The Unknown Europe written by James R. Payton and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of Eastern Europe includes highs of soaring cultural achievement and lows of almost unimaginable repression. But we in the West don’t know much about Eastern Europe or its history—this book helps us see why. We got interested when the region became a threat during the Cold War, but what we learned focused on the Communist period after World War II—not Eastern Europe itself or its deep history, a history that continues to live in the hearts of its peoples. James Payton offers an accessible treatment of the history of the region, an opportunity to learn about Eastern Europeans as they are. He overviews that story from pre-history to the present, examining eleven turning points that profoundly shaped Eastern European history. His treatment considers the backgrounds to the turning points, the events, and the long-lasting impacts they had for the various Eastern European nations. This helps us understand how Eastern Europeans themselves see their history—the “long haul” over the centuries, with the influence and impact of events of the sometimes-distant past shaping how they see themselves, their neighbors, and their place in the world.
Book Synopsis Politics, Art and Commitment in the East European Cinema by : D.W. Paul
Download or read book Politics, Art and Commitment in the East European Cinema written by D.W. Paul and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-06-18 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prague written by Andrew Beattie and published by Interlink Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its foundation in the ninth century Prague has punched way above its weight to become a fulcrum of European culture. The city’s most illustrious figures in the fields of music, literature and film are well known: Mozart staged the premiere of his opera Don Giovanni here; in the early twentieth century Franz Kafka was at the forefront of the city’s intellectual life, while later writers such as Milan Kundera and film directors such as Milos Forman chronicled Prague’s fortunes under communism. Yet the city has a cultural heritage that runs far deeper than Kafka museums and Mozart-by-candlelight concerts. It encompasses the avant-garde punk group Plastic People of the Universe, the “new wave” film directors of the 1960s who made their striking movies in the city’s famed Barrandov studios, and artists such as Alfons Mucha and Frantisek Kupka whose revolutionary canvases fomented Art Nouveau and abstract art at the dawn of the twentieth century. Beyond art galleries, concert halls and cinemas the history of Prague has been one of invasion and sometimes brutal oppression. The great German chancellor Otto von Bismarck once commented that “whoever controls Prague, controls mid-Europe” and a succession of imperialist powers have taken this advice to heart, most recently Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Opposition has taken many forms, from the religious reformer Jan Hus in the fifteenth century to playwright and dissident Václav Havel, whose elevation to the Czechoslovak presidency in 1990 made him a symbol of the rebirth of democracy in Eastern Europe. In this book Andrew Beattie also reflects on the modern city, where bold new buildings such as Frank Gehry’s “Dancing House” rub shoulders with monuments from the Gothic and Baroque eras such as the Charles Bridge and St. Vitus’ Cathedral. He considers the suburbs too, home to world-renowned soccer and ice hockey teams, gleaming shopping centers and grim communist-era apartment blocks that are often home to Vietnamese, Romany and Muslim minority groups who live in a city with a growing international outlook. The Prague he reveals is an increasingly confident and diverse city of the new Europe.
