The Meaning Of Czech History

Author : Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Publisher : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012190107

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The Meaning of Czech History by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Pdf

Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia, was a unique political leader whose speeches, lectures, newspaper articles, and historical essays greatly influenced his people. Although the Nazi and Communist regimes tried to suppress Masaryk's ideas, the Czech people have turned to them again and again after the nation regained a measure of freedom. Wellek brings together for the first time an English translation of Masaryk's writings that appeared between 1895 and 1910. Originally published 1974. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Rick Fawn,Jiří Hochman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810856486

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Historical Dictionary of the Czech State by Rick Fawn,Jiří Hochman Pdf

Czechoslovakia has been at the center of some of the most difficult--and tragic--episodes of modern European history: its sacrifice to Nazi Germany at Munich; the Communist Coup of 1948; and the military crushing of the Prague Spring. It has also enacted momentous change almost magically, as in the peaceful overthrow of communism in 1989, and then the negotiated end to the country in 1992. Czechoslovak history has consequently produced enduring political metaphors for our times, such as the Velvet Revolution and Velvet Divorce. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Czech State has been thoroughly updated and greatly expanded. Featuring a chronology, introductory essay, appendix, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries, this detailed, authoritative reference provides understandings of the Czechs as a people; the territory they inhabit; their social, cultural, political, and economic developments throughout history; and interactions with their neighbors and the wider world.

Author : T. G. Masaryk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Czechoslovakia
ISBN : 0807874272

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The Meaning of Czech History by T. G. Masaryk Pdf

Through nostalgic idealizations of motherhood, family, and the home, argues Laura Lovett, influential leaders in early twentieth-century America constructed and legitimated a range of reforms that promoted human reproduction. Their pronatalism emerged from a modernist conviction that reproduction and population could be regulated. European countries sought to regulate or encourage reproduction through legislation; America, by contrast, fostered ideological and cultural ideas of pronatalism through what Lovett terms "nostalgic modernism," which romanticized agrarianism and promoted scientific racism and eugenics.

Author : Ladislav Holy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521555841

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The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation by Ladislav Holy Pdf

When Ladislav Holy precipitately left Czechoslovakia for the UK in 1968 he was already one of the leading anthropologists in Central Europe. In the following decades he made important field studies in Africa. Since 1986 he has been engaged in research in the Czech Republic, and he brings to this timely study of national identity the skills of a seasoned researcher, a cosmopolitan perspective, and the insights of an insider. Drawing on historical and literary sources as well as ethnography, he analyses Czech discourses on national identity. He argues that there were specifically 'Czech' aspects to the communist regime and to the 'velvet revolution', and paying particular attention to symbolic representations of what it means to be Czech, he explores how notions of Czech identity were involved in the debates surrounding the fall of communism, and the emergence of a new social system.

Author : Balázs Trencsényi,Michal Kopeček
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9786155211249

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National Romanticism by Balázs Trencsényi,Michal Kopeček Pdf

67 texts, including hymns, manifestos, articles or extracts from lengthy studies exemplify the relation between Romanticism and the national movements in the cultural space ranging from Poland to the Ottoman Empire. Each text is accompanied by a presentation of the author, and by an analysis of the context in which the respective work was born.The end of the 18th century and first decades of the 19th were in many respects a watershed period in European history. The ideas of the Enlightenment and the dramatic convulsions of the French Revolution had shattered the old bonds and cast doubt upon the established moral and social norms of the old corporate society. In culture a new trend, Romanticism, was successfully asserting itself against Classicism and provided a new key for a growing number of activists to 're-imagine' their national community, reaching beyond the traditional frameworks of identification (such as the 'political nation', regional patriotism, or Christian universalism). The collection focuses on the interplay of Romantic cultural discourses and the shaping of national ideology throughout the 19th century, tracing the patterns of cultural transfer with Western Europe as well as the mimetic competition of national ideologies within the region.

Author : Mikuláš Teich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521431557

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Bohemia in History by Mikuláš Teich Pdf

Essays on the history of the Czech lands from the ninth century to the fall of socialism in 1989.

Author : Josef Polišenský
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Bohemia (Czech Republic)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043313977

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History of Czechoslovakia in Outline by Josef Polišenský Pdf

Author : Jan Bažant,Nina Bažantová,Frances Starn
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822347941

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The Czech Reader by Jan Bažant,Nina Bažantová,Frances Starn Pdf

Frances Starn is a writer living in Berkeley, California. --Book Jacket.

Author : Ladislav Holy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521555841

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The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation by Ladislav Holy Pdf

When Ladislav Holy precipitately left Czechoslovakia for the UK in 1968 he was already one of the leading anthropologists in Central Europe. In the following decades he made important field studies in Africa. Since 1986 he has been engaged in research in the Czech Republic, and he brings to this timely study of national identity the skills of a seasoned researcher, a cosmopolitan perspective, and the insights of an insider. Drawing on historical and literary sources as well as ethnography, he analyses Czech discourses on national identity. He argues that there were specifically 'Czech' aspects to the communist regime and to the 'velvet revolution', and paying particular attention to symbolic representations of what it means to be Czech, he explores how notions of Czech identity were involved in the debates surrounding the fall of communism, and the emergence of a new social system.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004534919

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Recalling Masaryk’s The Czech Question by Anonim Pdf

In the late 19th century, T. G. Masaryk presented his national programme. This vision of modern Czech society rested on the ideals of humanity, thus infusing the national ethos with a universal dimension. The significance of T. G. Masaryk's thought is investigated by current Czech thinkers in this volume.

Author : Jiří Přibáň,Karel Hvížďala
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9788024642673

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In Quest of History by Jiří Přibáň,Karel Hvížďala Pdf

On the centennial of the Czechs gaining their independence, award-winning Czech journalist Karel Hvížďala and Cardiff-based philosopher of law Jiří Přibán used the occasion to examine key moments in Czech history from the ninth century to the twenty-first. Covering such a broad scope allows the authors to look into the past and question how Czechs have viewed their history at different points – and what that means for the present and future. Employing the form of a dialogue, Hvížďala and Přibán raise and explore issues for the broader public that are normally reserved for university seminars, or avoided completely. “It’s an interesting book because simply by considering the ideas the authors of In Quest of History put forth, the reader loses his certainty of what is true and what is the common consensus – he becomes an individual.” – Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Testaments Betrayed, and The Festival of Insignificance “This contemplation by two Czech intellectuals of Czech history, ‘the national narrative,’ collective memory, and contemporary politics should be mandatory reading for understanding the deeper context of our current crisis.” – Jacques Rupnik, professor of political science at Sciences Po “Two men who are as European as they are Czech raise a question – Where are we headed? In answering, they deliver a solid classic. What an inspiring dialogue!” – Petr Pithart, Czech politician and signatory of Charter 77

Author : Petr Čornej
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Bohemia (Czech Republic)
ISBN : IND:30000038210989

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Fundamentals of Czech History by Petr Čornej Pdf

Author : Jiří Hochman
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0810833387

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Historical Dictionary of the Czech State by Jiří Hochman Pdf

A well-rounded overview of this Central European region including a chronology, notes on spelling, acronymns and abbreviations, as well as two detailed maps.

Author : Ahmet Ersoy,Maciej G¢rny,Vangelis Kechriotis
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789637326646

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Modernism: Representations of National Culture by Ahmet Ersoy,Maciej G¢rny,Vangelis Kechriotis Pdf

Presentations of National Cultures. Fifty-one texts illustrate the evolution of modernism in the east-European region. Essays, articles, poems, or excerpts from longer works offer new opportunities of possible comparisons of the respective national cultures, from the different ideological approaches and finessing projects of how to create the modern state liberal, conservative, socialist and others to the literary and scientific attempts at squaring the circle of individual and collective identities.

Author : Bradley F. Abrams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0742530248

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The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation by Bradley F. Abrams Pdf

The material effects of World War II, in combination with Eastern Europe's disappointingly undemocratic interwar history, placed radical social change on the postwar agenda across the region and shaped the debates that took place in immediate postwar Czech society. These debates adopted both a cultural form, in struggles over the meaning of the recent past and the nation's position on the East-West continuum, and a directly political form, in battles over the meaning of socialism. The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation examines the most important and politically resonant fields of historical and cultural debate in Czech society immediately after World War II. Bradley Abrams finds that communist public figures were largely successful in controlling debate over the nation's recent past--the interwar First Republic and the experiences of Munich and World War II--and over its location on the East-West continuum. This success preceded and was mirrored in the struggles over the political issue of the times: socialism. The communists engaged their political foes in the democratic socialist and Roman Catholic camps, and, surprisingly, found significant support from a major Protestant church. Abrams's careful reading of major publications re-creates a postwar mood sympathetic to radical social change, questioning the standard view of the communists' rise to power. This book not only contributes to the specific literature on Czech history, but also raises questions about the relationship between war and radical social change, about the communist takeover of the region, and about the role of intellectuals in public life.