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41. European Culture and Heritage a Destination Specialist Course Part 2 (central europe belgium, netherlands, luxenbourg, germany, switzerland, and austria. Eastern Europe- Poland, czech republic, slovakia, and hungary) by the travel institute | |
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(2004)
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42. Stránská skála: Origins of the Upper Paleolithic in the Brno Basin, Moravia, Czech Republic (Bulletin (American School of Prehistoric Research)) | |
Paperback: 232
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(2005-04-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description In this volume, an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars—Czech and American archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, geologists, and biologists—report on the results of the investigations from 1980 through the 1990s at Stránská skála, a complex of open-air loess sites on the outskirts of the Brno Basin in the Czech Republic. The volume presents in-depth studies of the geology, paleopedology, frost processes, vegetation, fauna, and archaeological features of Stránská skála that break new ground in our understanding of early modern humans in central Europe. |
43. Local Democracy and the Processes of Transformation in East-Central Europe (Urban Policy Challenges) | |
Hardcover: 257
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(1996-02)
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44. Battle for the Castle: The Myth of Czechoslovakia in Europe, 1914-1948 by Andrea Orzoff | |
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(2009-07-21)
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45. Pink Tanks and Velvet Hangovers by Douglas Lytle | |
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(1995-03-07)
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46. Prague Panoramas: National Memory and Sacred Space in the Twentieth Century (Pitt Russian East European) by Cynthia Paces | |
Hardcover: 352
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(2009-09-28)
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Editorial Review Product Description Prague Panoramas examines the creation of Czech nationalism through monuments, buildings, festivals, and protests in the public spaces of the city during the twentieth century. These “sites of memory” were attempts by civic, religious, cultural, and political forces to create a cohesive sense of self for a country and a people torn by war, foreign occupation, and internal strife. The Czechs struggled to define their national identity throughout the modern era. Prague, the capital of a diverse area comprising Czechs, Slovaks, Germans, Poles, Ruthenians, and Romany as well as various religious groups including Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, became central to the Czech domination of the region and its identity. These struggles have often played out in violent acts, such as the destruction of religious monuments, or the forced segregation and near extermination of Jews. During the twentieth century, Prague grew increasingly secular, yet leaders continued to look to religious figures such as Jan Hus and Saint Wenceslas as symbols of Czech heritage. Hus, in particular, became a paladin in the struggle for Czech independence from the Habsburg Empire and Austrian Catholicism. Through her extensive archival research and personal fieldwork, Cynthia Paces offers a panoramic view of Prague as the cradle of Czech national identity, seen through a vast array of memory sites and objects. From the Gothic Saint Vitus Cathedral, to the Communist Party's reconstruction of Jan Hus's Bethlehem Chapel, to the 1969 self-immolation of student Jan Palach in protest of Soviet occupation, to the Hosková plaque commemorating the deportation of Jews from Josefov during the Holocaust, Paces reveals the iconography intrinsic to forming a collective memory and the meaning of being a Czech. As her study discerns, that meaning has yet to be clearly defined, and the search for identity continues today. |
47. Flag Wars and Stone Saints: How the Bohemian Lands Became Czech by Nancy M. Wingfield | |
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(2007-10-31)
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Editorial Review Product Description In a new perspective on the formation of national identity in Central Europe, Nancy Wingfield analyzes what many historians have treated separately--the construction of the Czech and German nations--as a larger single phenomenon. Czech and German nationalism worked off each other in dynamic ways. As external conditions changed, Czech and German nationalists found new uses for their pasts and new ways to stage them in public spaces for their ongoing national projects. These grassroots confrontations transformed public culture by reinforcing the centrality of nationality to everyday life and by tying nationalism to the exercise of power. The battles in the public sphere produced a cultural geography of national conflict associated with the unveiling of Joseph II statues that began in 1881, the Badeni Language Ordinances of 1897, the 1905 debate over a Czech-language university in Moravia, and the celebration of the emperor's sixtieth jubilee in 1908. The pattern of impassioned national conflict would be repeated for the duration of the monarchy and persist with even more violence into the First Czechoslovak Republic. Numerous illustrations show how people absorbed, on many levels, visual clues that shaped how they identified themselves and their groups. This nuanced analysis is a valuable contribution to our understanding of Central European history, nationalism, and the uses of collective memory. (20080901) |
48. Magic Prague by Angelo Maria Ripellino | |
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(1993-12-10)
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