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  • Critical Thinking in Slovakia after Socialismby Jonathan L. Larson

    Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 90.00

    Critical Thinking in Slovakia after Socialism interrogates the putative relationship between critical thought and society through an ethnographic study of civic discourse in post-1989 Slovakia. Drawing on original fieldwork as well as on anthropological theories of language and culture, Jonathan Larson uncovers traces of patterned elements of criticism... more...

  • Czech Republicby Rick Fawn

    Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 160.00

    Czechoslovakia has captured the nation's imagination throughout the twentieth century. The Allied betrayal of the country to Nazi Germany in 1938 was to demonstrate the appalling consequences of naive appeasement of aggression. The wholesale reform of Soviet communism in the Prague Spring of 1968 won western support, and sympathy when it was crushed... more...

  • Czechoslovakiaby Robin Shepherd

    Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 48.00

    Czechoslovakia, one of the most rigid and authoritarian of the former Soviet Union's satellite states, started the transition from communism with high hopes. But a decade of change has exposed the full extent of the damage wrought to the country through decades of communist rule. For one thing, the country could not hold together, splitting apart into... more...

  • Czechoslovakia, 1918-92by Professor Jaroslav Krejcí; Pavel Machonin

    Palgrave Macmillan 1998; US$ 196.00

    Following World War 1 a unique experiment in state-building took place between two closely kindred nations in Eastern Europe; an attempt to build up a composite ethnic - Czechoslovak-nation and provide it with an adequate political framework. This book gives the reader a succinct account of this experiment by means of ethnopolitical, economic and sociological... more...

  • Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitlerby Igor Lukes

    Oxford University Press, USA 1996; US$ 74.99

    The Munich crisis of 1938, in which Great Britain and France decided to appease Hitler's demands to annex the Sudentenland, has provoked a vast amount of historical writing. The era has been thoroughly examined from the perspectives of Germans, French, and British political establishments. But historians have had, until now, only a vague understanding... more...

  • The Emergence of the Bohemian Stateby Petr Charvát

    BRILL 2010; US$ 154.00

    Drawing especially on new data from archaeology, history, art history and cultural or social anthropology, this book offers a new vision of the origins of the Bohemian state. It is based both on interpretation of evidence not sufficiently taken into consideration up to now, and on research results of a wide range of international scholarship. more...

  • Heimweh nach Pragby Joseph Roth; Helmuth Nürnberger

    Wallstein Verlag 2012; US$ 34.50

    Hauptbeschreibung Für keine andere Zeitung hat Joseph Roth so lange geschrieben wie für das seinerzeit weit über die Grenzen der Tschechoslowakei hinaus gelesene "Prager Tagblatt": Der erste Beitrag des damals noch ganz unbekannten Germanistikstudenten, ein Gedicht, erschien 1917, der letzte 1937, als der mittlerweile berühmte Journalist und Romancier... more...

  • The History of the Czech Republic and Slovakiaby William Mahoney

    ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 50.00

    This survey of Czech and Slovak history traces the development of two neighboring peoples through the creation of a common Czechoslovakian state in 1918 to the founding of the independent Czech and Slovak Republics in 1993 and beyond. more...

  • The Prague Spring and its Aftermathby Kieran Williams

    Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 34.00

    An analysis of the Prague Spring using sources which have become available since the 1989 revolution. more...

  • The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968by Gunter Bischof; Stefan Karner; Peter Ruggenthaler

    Lexington Books 2009; US$ 49.99

    The essays of a dozen leading European and American Cold War historians analyze the 'Prague Spring' and the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in light of new documentary evidence from the archives of two dozen countries and explain what happened behind the scenes. They also reassess the weak response of the United States and consider whether Washington... more...