A History Of The Czechs And Slovaks

Author : William Mahoney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216098188

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The History of the Czech Republic and Slovakia by William Mahoney Pdf

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 : Robert William Seton-Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bohemia (Czech Republic)
ISBN : OCLC:123479132

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A History of the Czechs and Slovaks by Robert William Seton-Watson Pdf

Author : Stanislav J. Kirschbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002602506

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A History of Slovakia by Stanislav J. Kirschbaum Pdf

A history of Slovakia from prehistory to the 1990s. It includes a description of the development of a Slovakian consciousness, from the 19th century under the colonial rule of the Hungarians, through the merger into Czechoslovakia, Nazi-sponsored independence, the Russian invasion and independence.

Author : M. Mark Stolarik
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633861547

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The Czech and Slovak Republics by M. Mark Stolarik Pdf

The essays in the book compare the Czech Republic and Slovakia since the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993. The papers deal with the causes of the divorce and discuss the political, economic and social developments in the new countries. This is the only English-language volume that presents the synoptic findings of leading Czech, Slovak, and North American scholars in the field.The authors include two former Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, eight leading scholars (four Czechs and four Slovaks), and eight knowledgeable commentators from North America. The most significant new insight is that in spite of predictions by various pundits in the Western World that Czechia would flourish after the breakup and Slovakia would languish, the opposite has happened. While the Czech Republic did well in its early years, it is now languishing while Slovakia, which had a rough start, is now doing very well. Anyone interested in the history of the Czech and Slovak Republics over the last twenty years will find gratification in reading this book.

Author : R. W. Seton-Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1979-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0849549329

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A History of the Czechs and Slovaks by R. W. Seton-Watson Pdf

Author : R. W. Seton-Weston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1980-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 084922974X

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A History of the Czechs and Slovaks by R. W. Seton-Weston Pdf

Author : Mikuláš Teich,Dušan Kováč,Martin D. Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139494946

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Slovakia in History by Mikuláš Teich,Dušan Kováč,Martin D. Brown Pdf

Until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia's identity seemed inextricably linked with that of the former state. This book explores the key moments and themes in the history of Slovakia from the Duchy of Nitra's ninth-century origins to the establishment of independent Slovakia at midnight 1992–3. Leading scholars chart the gradual ethnic awakening of the Slovaks during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and examine how Slovak national identity took shape with the codification of standard literary Slovak in 1843 and the subsequent development of the Slovak national movement. They show how, after a thousand years of Magyar-Slovak coexistence, Slovakia became part of the new Czechoslovak state from 1918–39, and shed new light on its role as a Nazi client state as well as on the postwar developments leading up to full statehood in the aftermath of the collapse of communism in 1989. There is no comparable book in English on the subject.

Author : William Mahoney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216098188

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The History of the Czech Republic and Slovakia by William Mahoney Pdf

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 : John Gellner,John Smerek
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1968-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487597436

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The Czechs and Slovaks in Canada by John Gellner,John Smerek Pdf

This is a chronicle of one of the many ethnic groups in Canada, a group of about 80,000 people of Czech and Slovak origin who now live in this country. In the authors' own words, "the book is addressed both to Canadian-Canadians and to Czech-and-Slovak Canadians (if there is such a distinction)." The latter will learn from it who their fellow citizens of similar origin are, where they came from, what they brought to this country, and how they succeeded here. The book provides the "Canadian-Canadian" with a straightforward history of the Czechs and Slovaks, their settlement and cultural organizations, and gives some account of the many Czechs and Slovaks who have made their mark in Canada. It is published on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia in 1918.

Author : A. H. Hermann
Publisher : London : A. Lane
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011586305

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A History of the Czechs by A. H. Hermann Pdf

Author : Tomas Sniegon
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782382959

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Vanished History by Tomas Sniegon Pdf

Bohemia and Moravia, today part of the Czech Republic, was the first territory with a majority of non-German speakers occupied by Hitler's Third Reich on the eve of the World War II. Tens of thousands of Jewish inhabitants in the so called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia soon felt the tragic consequences of Nazi racial politics. Not all Czechs, however, remained passive bystanders during the genocide. After the destruction of Czechoslovakia in 1938-39, Slovakia became a formally independent but fully subordinate satellite of Germany. Despite the fact it was not occupied until 1944, Slovakia paid Germany to deport its own Jewish citizens to extermination camps. About 270,000 out of the 360,000 Czech and Slovak casualties of World War II were victims of the Holocaust. Despite these statistics, the Holocaust vanished almost entirely from post-war Czechoslovak, and later Czech and Slovak, historical cultures. The communist dictatorship carried the main responsibility for this disappearance, yet the situation has not changed much since the fall of the communist regime. The main questions of this study are how and why the Holocaust was excluded from the Czech and Slovak history.

Author : George J. Kovtun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951D01224749F

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Czech and Slovak History by George J. Kovtun Pdf

Author : Pat Martin
Publisher : Penfield Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Cookery, Czech
ISBN : 1572160292

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Czech and Slovak Touches by Pat Martin Pdf

Author : Laura Cashman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317999638

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1948 and 1968 – Dramatic Milestones in Czech and Slovak History by Laura Cashman Pdf

This volume has been published to coincide with the anniversaries of two significant milestones in Czech and Slovak history – the establishment of communist rule in 1948 and the Prague Spring of 1968 – and in anticipation of the 20th anniversary of the 1989 ‘Velvet Revolution’. Given the ultimate failure of the communist system, these events and their legacy for Czech and Slovak society and politics merit continued study, particularly given the wealth of new data made available when state and Party archives were finally opened in the 1990s. The essays in this volume, by witnesses, historians and social scientists from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the USA, UK and Australia offer a reappraisal of those turbulent events. They present new and original research, based on information from archives which were not opened until after 1990 and which is not yet available to audiences who do not speak Czech or Slovak. This volume will, therefore, be of interest to both specialists and general readers who are curious to learn more about these events. This book was published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.

Author : James Ramon Felak
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822976943

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At the Price of the Republic by James Ramon Felak Pdf

Slovak nationalist sentiment has been a constant presence in the history of Czechoslovakia, coming to head in the torrent of nationalism that resulted in the dissolution of the Republic on January 1, 1993. James Felak examines a parallel episode in the 1930s with Slovak nationalists achieved autonomy for Slovakia-but “at the price” of the loss of East Central Europe's only parliamentary democracy and the strengthening of Nazi power. The tensions between Czechs and Slovaks date back to the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918. Slovaks, who differed sharply in political tradition, social and economic development, and culture, and resented being governed by a centralized administration run from the Czech capital of Prague, formed the Slovak People's Party, led by Roman Catholic priest Ankrej Hlinka. Drawing heavily on Czech and Slovak archives, Felak provides a balanced history of the party, offering unprecedented insight into intraparty factionalism and behind-the-scenes maneuvering surrounding SSP's policy decisions.