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A highly influential Czech historian and politician, František Palacký (1798-1876) became in 1825 the first editor of the journal of the Bohemian Museum, a key cultural institution in the development of Czech nationalism. He was actively involved in the nineteenth-century Czech national revival, helping also to found the Czech national theatre. Entering politics in 1848, he served as president of the Prague Slavic Congress, and later became a member of the Austrian senate as a supporter of greater Czech autonomy. In this extensive work, comprising ten separate parts - published in German between 1836 and 1867 - Palacký gives a detailed account of Bohemian history until 1526. It remains an important and ambitious feat of scholarship, still relevant to students of central European history. The third part of Volume 3 (1854) deals with the first years of the Council of Basel from 1431 to 1439.
In the first volume of a two-volume set, Canadian historian Kantowicz describes the events, people, and ideas driving the world's social and political course through two world wars, the Holocaust, revolutions, depressions, and other phenomena. Covers from the beginning of the century through World War II; Coming Apart, Coming Together will presumably take the story from there. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The biography of the leading Czech historian and political thinker of the 19th century, Frantiek Palack, is based upon a thorough analysis of his complete published work and his papers in Czech, Austrian and German archives. Palack was one of the influential European historians of the 19th century who wrote their compendious books for educational purposes. He is, above all, the founder of the Czech vision of history that is effective until our days, because he characterized the Czechs as a constituent part of the European community of nations in the past who should also take a respectable place among the European nations in the future. Small nations that were not able to keep their full inde...