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The Economic Rise of the Czech Lands I.

This first of a two-part examination of the economic development of the Czech lands deals with the period from the mid-eighteenth century...

From the 1750s to the End of World War I

Konec mýtu o věčném přátelství

The myth of the 'eternal friendship' between Bulgaria and Russia is still today one of the generally accepted myths, in Bulgaria and in o...

K charakteristice ruské politiky v Bulharsku v letech 1876–1887

La sociedad checa y México, 1821–1939

The book deals with the historiographically neglected relations between Czech society and Mexico from the year 1821, when this Latin-Amer...

Chronologie a slovník moderních japonských dějin

The modern history of Japan represents an unusually clearly defined period. On the one hand, it begins with a sharp revolutionary start i...

Dekadence a obrození

The discourse of an alleged 'decadence' of European culture at the end of 19th century was often connected with the idea that the cause o...

Krize evropského liberalismu a „židovská otázka“

Amerika v proměnách staletí

K svobodě je dlouhé putování

Život Českobratrské církve evangelické v letech 1968–1989

Betrug der Allamoda in Prag 1660 / Podvod Allamody v Praze 1660

The comic allegory Betrug der Allamoda from the pen of Viennese-Prague Barnabite preacher Costanza Arzonni was staged twice in 1660 at th...

Václav Havel’s Meanings

No one in Czech politics or culture could match the international stature of Václav Havel at the time of his death in 2011. In the years ...

His Key Words and Their Legacy

Myšlenky pražského frankismu

In an attempt at the depoliticization of research in the field of Jewish mysticism the authors devote their attention to the community of...

Kritické studium židovské mystiky

Mezi Markem Marci a Löwem z Erlsfeldu: Myšlení a výuka na pražské lékařské fakultě v době barokní

The book Between Marek Marci and Löw of Erlsfeld is the first monograph treatment on the content of teaching at the Prague Medical Facult...

Mluvit mlčky

Sign language is an important phenomenon of monasticism which has existed for thousand years. The signs enable monks to pass an important...

Znaková řeč ve středověkých klášterech