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Klíč k novověké paleografii

This handbook, "The Key to Modern Palaeography," represents a practical aid in reading Early Modern and Modern palaeographic texts (from ...

Historici, historiografie a dějepis

This book presents nineteen essays in which the scholar addresses issues of modern Czech, and partially also world historiography over an...

The Irish Franciscans in Prague 1629–1786

At the end of the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I forced the Irish Franciscans into exile. Of the four continental provinces to whic...

Hospodářský vzestup českých zemí od poloviny 18. století do konce monarchie

This monographic textbook is based on the second volume of The History of the Economy of the Czech Lands from the Beginning of the Indust...

Reyes, emprendedores, misioneros

In the 19th century, the Mosquito Coast became an area of power struggles between Great Britain, the USA and the countries of Central Ame...

Rivalidad imperial y sincretismo colonial en la Costa de Mosquitia, siglo XIX

Spolkový život českých novinářů v letech 1945-1948

This book describes Czech journalists’ life in professional associations during the relatively democratic period of the "Third Republic."...

Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II

Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II takes readers back to the days of the Habsburg Emperor Rudolph II (1576–1611) when Prague became the me...

Válečný chirurg

War Surgeon presents the professional beginnings of František Burian, the founder of post-traumatic plastic surgery. The book summarizes ...

František Burian a zrození české plastické chirurgie

Československo 38-89: Atentát

An award-winning interactive story from the protectorate period, rendered primarily in the form of graphic comic art by the artist known ...

Interaktivní příběh z období protektorátu

Gotické deskové malířství v severozápadních a severních Čechách, 1340–1550

A remarkable set of altarpieces and individual panel paintings dating from 1340–1550 has been preserved in North-Western Bohemia. Most of...

Novinové zpravodajství a noviny v Čechách od 17. století do roku 1740

News has been spreading among people from time immemorial. Narratives, messages, letters, songs, but also written news, pictures and pamp...

Jan Hus známý i neznámý

In an accessible form, Jiří Kejř renders the story of Master John Huss' life by systematically explaining motives of the behaviour of thi...