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Cold War Books in the ‘Other’ Europe and What Came After
Drawing on analyses of the socio-cultural context of East and Central Europe, with a special focus on the Czech cultural dynamics of the Cold War and its aftermath, this book offers a study of the making and breaking of the centrally-controlled system of book production and reception. It explores the social, material and symbolic reproduction of the printed text, in both official and alternative spheres, and patterns of dissemination and reading. Building on archival research, statistical data, media analyses, and in-depth interviews with the participants of the post-1989 de-centralization and privatization of the book world, it revisits the established notions of ‘censorship’ and ‘revolution’ in order to uncover people’s performances that contributed to both the reproduction and erosion of the ‘old regime’.
Noble Nationalists
This illuminating study examines the dramatic transformation of Bohemian noble identity from the rise of mass politics in the late nineteenth century to the descent of the Iron Curtain after World War II. At the turn of the twentieth century, some 300 noble families owned over a third of the Habsburg Bohemian Crownlands. With the Empire's demise in 1918, the once powerful Bohemian nobility quickly became a target of the nationalist revolution sweeping the new Czechoslovak state. Eagle Glassheim traces the evolving efforts of the nobles to define their place in this revolutionary new order. Nobles saw little choice but to ally with Czech and German national parties, initially in the hopes of ...
From Peoples Into Nations
"This book is a history of East Central Europe since the late eighteenth century, the region of Europe between German central Europe and Russia in the East. Connelly argues the region, for which it is frequently hard to define exact boundaries and which is sometimes treated country-by-country in a way seemingly separate from the broader trends of European history, was one of shared experience despite most of the peoples being divided by linguistic, geographic, and political barriers. Beginning in the 1780s, an unwitting Habsburg monarch -- Joseph II -- decreed that his subjects would use only German, as he hoped to mold a common nationality using German over the disparate subjects. Instead, ...
A Nation of Bookworms?
Nation of Bookworms takes an in-depth look at the reading culture of the Czech Republic--the country with the highest number of libraries per capita worldwide. Drawing on studies and oral interviews of Czech readers conducted by the National Library of the Czech Republic and the Institute of Czech Literature between 2007 and 2018, the book presents intriguing new research on Czech readership and society. Jiří Trávníček deftly sifts through hard data and first-person reportage, illuminating the myriad components that make up reading culture, such as print-reading, screen-reading, libraries, book sales, the social lives of readers, time spent reading, and reading preferences. Trávníček also takes a global look at literary love, exploring the parallels between the reading cultures of other countries and the Czechs’ unique fervor for the written word. Nation of Bookworms is essential reading for bibliophiles on every continent.
Privatization and Culture
CARlA BODO Board Member of the Cultural Information and Research Centres liaison in Europe (CIRCLE) and Director of the Observatory for the Performing Arts at the Department of the Performing Arts of the Italian Prime Minister's Office, Roma The relation between the public and the private sector in the field of culture, the central theme of this publication, was thoroughly debated during the 1997 CIRCLE Round Table in Amsterdam. It was not the first time CIRCLE addressed this issue. In 1988 CIRCLE'S Bureau was invited to participate in a seminar in Budapest on The State, the Market and Culture. I will never forget the emotional impact of Sacha Rubinstein's demonization of state sup port and his apotheosis of the role of the market in the cultural field in Russia. So, in ad vance of actual events, we suddenly had a premonition of what was going to happen, ofthe turmoil which was about to radically change the socio-political scene of Central and East ern Europe. Six years later, in 1994, we met again in Budapest for a Conference on The Distribu tion of Roles between Government and Arts Councils, Associations and Foundations.
The Domain of Images
In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. This original and brilliant book calls upon art historians to look beyond their traditional subjects—painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking—to the vast array of "nonart" images, including those from science, technology, commerce, medicine, music, and archaeology. Such images, James Elkins asserts, can be as rich and expressive as any canonical painting. Using scores of illustrations as examples, he proposes a radically new way of thinking about visual analysis, one that relies on an object's own internal sense of organization.Elkins begins by demonstrating the arbitrariness of current criteria used by art historians for selecting images for study. He urges scholars to adopt, instead, the far broader criteria of the young field of image studies. After analyzing the philosophic underpinnings of this interdisciplinary field, he surveys the entire range of images, from calligraphy to mathematical graphs and abstract painting. Throughout, Elkins blends philosophic analysis with historical detail to produce a startling new sense of such basic terms as pictures, writing, and notation.
Marketingová komunikace a public relations
Slovník kolektivu autorů z Fakulty sociálních věd Univerzity Karlovy tvoří pendant k úspěšné Praktické encyklopedii žurnalistiky, jež se dočkala několika vydání. Obsahuje přes dvě stě padesát výkladových hesel, která umožňují základní orientaci v klíčových konceptech oboru. Je určen jak studentům, tak těm, kteří s pojmy marketingové komunikace přicházejí do styku v rámci své profese.
Povstání Bohdana Chmelnického
Velké povstání Bohdana Chmelnického představuje neskutečně krvavý a zničující konflikt druhé poloviny 17. století. Svým průběhem a důsledky ovlivnil vnitropolitický vývoj Polsko-litevské unie a změnil mocenskou rovnováhu v celé východní Evropě, protože moskevský stát začal na pozvolném úpadku Rzeczpospolité a rozdělení ukrajinského území výrazně profitovat, rozšířil svůj vliv dále na západ a čím dál výrazněji zasahoval do evropského dění. V tom je také aktuální zajímavost těchto dramatických událostí pro dnešního čtenáře, prožívajícího současné válečné události na Ukrajině. Autor prostřednictvím historických příběhů z bojišť a politických jednání objasňuje nejen Chmelnického povstání, ale také analyzuje předchozí vývoj kozáckého hnutí. Zároveň bortí zažité stereotypy historického myšlení, do jisté míry zkreslené slavným románem Ohněm a mečem Henryka Sienkiewicze a filmovým dílem Jerzyho Hoffmana. Kniha obsahuje velké množství doprovodných ilustrací a unikátních map zachycujících bitvy a vojenská tažení.
Husajn kontra Chomejní
Vysokou aktuálnost tohoto tématu lze doložit výrokem Zbigniewa Brzezinského (Lidové noviny, 11. 8. 2006): “Novým prvkem dnes je, že je stále obtížnější od sebe oddělovat izraelsko-palestinský problém a problém Iráku a Íránu. Ani Spojené státy, ani Izrael nemají potenciál prosadit na Blízkém východě jednostranné řešení. Možná existují lidé, kteří klamou sami sebe a mylně si to myslí.” Tento svazek edice Polozapomenuté války zachycuje hlavní momenty historického pozadí konfliktu, příčiny a průběh bojových operací, včetně jejich zvláštností (vlny sebevražedných íránských bojovníků i navzájem k sobě připoutaných dětí, nas...
