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Iron Landscapes
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia built an ambitious national rail network out of what remained of the obsolete Habsburg system. While conceived as a means of knitting together a young and ethnically diverse nation-state, these railways were by their very nature a transnational phenomenon, and as such they simultaneously articulated and embodied a distinctive Czechoslovak cosmopolitanism. Drawing on evidence ranging from government documents to newsreels to train timetables, Iron Landscapes gives a nuanced account of how planners and authorities balanced these two imperatives, bringing the cultural history of infrastructure into dialogue with the spatial history of Central Europe.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
A Bibliography of East European Travel Writing on Europe
The bibliography volume of the three-volume East Looks West: East European Travel Writing in Europe collates travel writing published in book form by east Europeans travelling in Europe from ca. 1550 to 2000. It is intended as a fundamental research tool, collecting together travel writings within each national/linguistic tradition, and enabling comparative analysis of such material. It fills an important gap in the existing reference literature, both in western and east European languages, and will be of use to those working in the growing fields of comparative travel writing, regional and national identities, and postcolonialism.These texts exist in surprisingly large numbers, and include ...
Lidová píseň a sborová tvorba
Publikace zobrazuje široké spektrum vlivů hudebního folkloru na českou klasickou hudbu 19. a 20. století. Zabývá se sběratelstvím lidových písní a různými formami tzv. druhotné existence lidové písně v městském prostředí. V druhé části přináší analýzy sborových úprav lidových písní a sborových skladeb na lidové texty. Jejich bohatá typologie je demonstrována na ukázkách z tvorby deseti předních českých skladatelů (A. Tučapský, O. Mácha, J. Málek, J. Feld, P. Eben, J. Křička, Z. Lukáš, J. Laburda, Z. Šesták, C. Kohoutek).
Lid na Hlinecku
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