The UNESCO World Cultural Heritage in the Czech Republic book, published by the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, serves as official documentation of UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites located within the country. The book describes the history, architectural significance, and importance of preserving a number of historic sites, complete with photographs and brief descriptions of each site. P…
"Landmarks in the History of the Czech State" is a book published by the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs to support a historical exhibition on the development of the Czech state. It provides concise yet informative accounts of key events, figures, and sites in the history of Bohemia, Moravia, and later the Czech Republic. Written by Marcel Deyl and revised by historian Robert Kvaček, the boo…
The book is divided to four broader parts that reflect several distinctive dimensions of the Czech foreign policy The analysis begins with a general part that explores the nature of the political context of the processes of the Czech foreign policy making
The book offers a valuable case study of a country coming back to Europe, but it also provides an opportunity for analyzing the influence of communism on what had been a significant interwar European state. The book's strong comparative element will make it invaluable as well for those seeking to understand contemporary Central and Eastern Europe.
Ladislav Holy 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 analyzes Czech discourses on national identity. Arguing that there were specifically "Czech" aspects to the Communist regime and to the "velvet revolution", he explore…
The Coasts of Bohemia draws on an enormous array of literary, musical, visual, and documentary sources ranging from banknotes to statues, museum displays to school textbooks, funeral orations to operatic stage-sets, murals in subway stations to censors' indexes of banned books. It brings us into intimate contact with the ever changing details of daily life―the street names and facades of buil…
This brief history of the Czech Lands has been compiled by leading Czech historians. Its brevity and clarity result from their highly skillful refinements and distillation of profound and detailed knowledge. This little book is one that the reader can either read from start to finish or use as a reference for years to come. Historically, the Czech Republic is made up of three Bohemia, Moravia, …
Czechoslovakia, one of the most rigid and authoritarian of the former Soviet Union's satellite states, started the transition from communism with high hopes. But a decade of change has exposed the full extent of the damage wrought to the country through decades of communist rule. For one thing, the country could not hold together, splitting apart into two independent states in 1993. This book l…