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Teologie ve stínu

This collection of essays outlines selected historical facts about the Catholic theological reflection in the Czech Lands in the second h...

Prolegomena k dějinám české katolické teologie druhé poloviny 20. století

The Birth of the State

In the book titled Birth of the State, readers learn what researchers nowadays think about the rise and stabilization of the oldest state...

Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China

The Cathedral of St. Vitus at Prague Castle

The Cathedral of St. Vitus at Prague Castle is one of the symbols of the Czech statehood; it is the coronation and burial site of Bohemia...

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

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...

The Mining Towns of the Bohemian Ore Mountains

The book offers a summary of the social, economic and cultural aspects of metal mining in the Bohemian Erzgebirge. Individual chapters de...

in the Early Modern Period and Their Impact on Cultural History

The Parisian Summit, 1377–78

The Czech king and Roman Emperor Charles IV met with the French king Charles V in Paris in 1378. Reconstructing the journey to this meeti...

Emperor Charles IV and King Charles V of France

The Rise and Fall of the International Organization of Journalists Based in Prague 1946–2016

This is a unique history of what in the 1980s was the world’s largest association in the media field. However, the IOJ was embroiled in t...

Useful Recollections, Part III

The Roma as Agents of the “G*psy Question”

The story of Romani people in communist Czechoslovakia has long been framed by a discriminatory policy of assimilation, and thus by fatal...

Belonging, Mobility and Resettlement Policy in Socialist Czechoslovakia

The Stojka family

The book traces the history of a Romani family from the territory of today’s Slovakia across the 19th and 20th centuries. Working with a ...

Spatial mobility and territorial anchoredness of Lovara Vlax Roms in the former Czechoslovakia

The Velvet Revolution 30 Years After

Thirty years after the Velvet Revolution brought down the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, this book uses interviews, photographs, and...

Totalismus a holismus

This book, written by his student, Radim Palouš, and published on the anniversary of Jan Patočka’s death, contemplates on existence both ...