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Bohemia’s Jews and Their Nineteenth Century

This book on Jewish culture and literature focuses on the “quiet” decades of the nineteenth century, a scarcely written-about period of t...

Texts, Contexts, Reassessments

Bohumil Hrabal

Described as “one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century,” Bohumil Hrabal ranks among the most important and widely transla...

A Full-length Portrait

Boj za právo

The new edition of the documents from 1848–1860 (first edition in 1893), prepared by the writer and secretary of the Museum of Czech King...

Část I.

Brány pekelné ji nepřemohou

This book contains papers from the academic colloquium, The Persecution of the Roman-Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia in 1948–1960, orga...

Kapitoly z pronásledování církví v Československu kolem roku 1950

Budování národních organizací YMCA v Československu a Polsku

This monograph focuses on the history of physical education and sport in the YMCA organization in Czechoslovakia and Poland. It primarily...

Rozvoj tělesné kultury v letech 1918–1939

Burgundský stát

Bertrand Schnerb's book presents a synthesis of the Burgundian state at the end of the Middle Ages. Alongside parts of northern Italy, th...

1363–1477

Bylo to na věčné časy, dokud to neskončilo

The collapse of socialism was absolutely unexpected for the inhabitants of the Soviet Union, but at the same time, it was absolutely inev...

Poslední sovětská generace

Caribe hispano y Europa. Siglos XIX y XX

The scholar analyzes the diverse relations between the Spanish-speaking part of the Caribbean region, including the islands and surroundi...

Dos siglos de relaciones

Cestovní ruch pod dohledem třetí říše

Tourism and the Second World War seems to be a paradoxical juxtaposition at first sight. Historians Ivan Jakubec and Jan Štemberk however...

Cesty české historiografie 1945 – 1989

Hanzal, Josef: Cesty české historiografie (The Paths of Czech Historiography 1945?1989) This account of the development of Czech historio...

Courtrai

The Battle of Courtrai fought in 1302 by the Flanders army against the army of the King Philip IV of France became a key part first of th...

11. července 1302

Czech Action Art

This is the first ever in-depth interpretation of Czech Action Art as a vast and very original stream of Czech post-war art within the co...

Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art behind the Iron Curtain