Bohemia in HistoryMikuláš Teich This original collection of essays offers an account of key moments and themes in the history of the Czech Lands from the ninth century to the fall of socialism in 1989. The essays, commissioned specially for this volume, are almost all written by prominent scholars teaching and researching in the present-day Czech Republic, and there is no comparable book in English on the subject. Topics range from the great Bohemian courts of the medieval and early modern periods, to the nationalist revival, and the dramatic ethnic upheavals of the modern times. |
Contents
Introduction | 25 |
Bohemia and Moravia from | 39 |
Politics and culture under Charles IV | 59 |
4 | 75 |
The monarchy of the estates | 98 |
Rudolfine culture | 117 |
The White Mountain as a symbol in modern Czech history | 143 |
23 | 160 |
Science in a bilingual country | 229 |
The rise and fall of a democracy | 244 |
59 | 290 |
Czechoslovakia behind the Iron Curtain 19451989 | 306 |
Germans in Bohemia and Moravia in | 324 |
Czechs and Jews | 344 |
Czechs and Slovaks in modern history | 364 |
| 380 | |
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