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Aretin’s Map of the Bohemian Kingdom

The book presents the life and the work of Pavel Aretin of Ehrenfeld, whose map New and Exact Description of the Bohemian Kingdom (1619, ...

Ztracená generace lékařů

After World War I, it was not easy to become a doctor. The young generation (a cohort born at the turn of the 19th century and starting t...

Studenti a absolventi medicíny na Univerzitě Karlově v první polovině 20. století

Anatomie komunismu: Skutečný příběh jedné rodiny

This book follows the story of three people in the turbulent 20th century: the life of my mother, my father and me, whose life was affect...

Příběh československé ústavy 1920 II

The constitution of 29 February 1920 is an essential constitutional document of the independent Czechoslovak state. Jan Kuklík follows th...

Ústava a její proměny v meziválečném období

Amicis omnia sunt communia

Integrative and disintegrative processes are in focus of many scientific disciplines and naturally open the door to many interdisciplinar...

Integrace a dezintegrace v dějinách, společnosti a literatuře

Třetí strana trojúhelníku

The title refers to American historian Michael Frisch’s idea that oral history is an approach to perceiving and conceptualising the past ...

Teorie a praxe orální historie

Sto let jedné židovské rodiny na českém venkově

This trio of egodocuments captures the fates of three generations of a single family. In the first part, Adolf Ornstein revisits the lif...

Svatý stolec a Československo I.

The first volume of a new series presents an edition of summary diplomatic reports of the Czechoslovak embassy to the Holy See during the...

Edice dokumentů z let 1920–1922

Zápisník Tagebuch – Reisen Emila Holuba jako jeho badatelská prvotina

This book represents a critical edition of dairy entries which the traveler Emil Holub took while a student at the Medical School of the ...

Soukromá válka Huga Vavrečky

The name of Hugo Vavrečka (1880–1952), a journalist, diplomat, director of the Baťa company, minister of propaganda and grandfather of th...

Mikrohistorie z rozhraní soudobých dějin (1945–1952)

Ženy v politice

After World War II, Czechoslovak female politicians continued the First-Republic tradition of active political participation of their pre...

Role a postavení vrcholných političek v Československu 1948–1968

Staroměstská exekuce

Josef Petráň opens his book Old Town Execution with the depiction of the gory drama that took place in the Old Town Square on June 21, 16...