Bohemia and the Cechs, the History, People, Institutions and the Geography of the Kingdom, Together with Accounts of Moravia and Silesia
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dave Rasdal
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1467117617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning in the 1870s, thousands of Bohemians flocked to Cedar Rapids in search of a better life. Czech immigrants courageously overcame the difficult conditions of the local packinghouse and the challenge of creating a new home. They maintained a strong cultural identity with Czech music, literature and an undying dedication to family. In the wake of a devastating flood in 2008, the people of Czech Village and New Bohemia re-imagined traditional principles to forge a remarkable resurgence toward a promising future. Author Dave Rasdal travels from the Charles Bridge to the Bridge of Lions in a celebration of Czech heritage and history in Cedar Rapids.
Author: Hugh LeCaine Agnew
Publisher: Hoover Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 620
ISBN-13: 0817944923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this first up-do-date, single volume history of the Czechs, Agnew provides an introduction to the major themes and contours of Czech history for the general reader from prehistory and the first Slavs to the Czech Republic's entry into the European Union."
Author: Thomas Capek
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 314
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mikuláš Teich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-10-29
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780521431552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays on the history of the Czech lands from the ninth century to the fall of socialism in 1989.
Author: Hugh Agnew
Publisher: Hoover Press
Published: 2013-09-01
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 0817944931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this chronicle of a fascinating people, Hugh Agnew offers a single-volume survey of Czech history, providing an introduction to its major themes and contours. Agnew presents a detailed chronology of the region, from prehistory and the first Slavs to the Czech Republic's entrance into the European Union. Taking into account both Western and Marxist insights—as well as the input of the newest generation of Czech historians—he furnishes a comprehensive fusion of three different aspects of Czech history: a political-diplomatic view, a social-economic view, and a cultural-intellectual view.
Author: Derek Sayer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-06-30
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 0691214433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare gave the landlocked country of Bohemia a coastline—a famous and, to Czechs, typical example of foreigners' ignorance of the Czech homeland. Although the lands that were once the Kingdom of Bohemia lie at the heart of Europe, Czechs are usually encountered only in the margins of other people's stories. In The Coasts of Bohemia, Derek Sayer reverses this perspective. He presents a comprehensive and long-needed history of the Czech people that is also a remarkably original history of modern Europe, told from its uneasy center. Sayer shows that Bohemia has long been a theater of European conflict. It has been a cradle of Protestantism and a bulwark of the Counter-Reformation; an Austrian imperial province and a proudly Slavic national state; the most easterly democracy in Europe; and a westerly outlier of the Soviet bloc. The complexities of its location have given rise to profound (and often profoundly comic) reflections on the modern condition. Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Hasek, Karel Capek and Milan Kundera are all products of its spirit of place. Sayer describes how Bohemia's ambiguities and contradictions are those of Europe itself, and he considers the ironies of viewing Europe, the West, and modernity from the vantage point of a country that has been too often ignored. The Coasts of Bohemia draws on an enormous array of literary, musical, visual, and documentary sources ranging from banknotes to statues, museum displays to school textbooks, funeral orations to operatic stage-sets, murals in subway stations to censors' indexes of banned books. It brings us into intimate contact with the ever changing details of daily life—the street names and facades of buildings, the heroes figured on postage stamps—that have created and recreated a sense of what it is to be Czech. Sayer's sustained concern with questions of identity, memory, and power place the book at the heart of contemporary intellectual debate. It is an extraordinary story, beautifully told.
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Published: 1910
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Capek
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 438
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe emigration of the Czechs to America and their cultural gifts to the new nation.
Author: Will Seymour Monroe
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 634
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