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Queer Encounters with Communist Power
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Queer Encounters with Communist Power

How did the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia approach non-heterosexuality? How did young girls and boys come to realize their queer desires and identities within a state known for repressing individuality? What did they do with that self-awareness—and later on, as adults, what strategies did they employ in their everyday dealings with a state that defined homosexuality as a medical diagnosis? Queer Encounters with Communist Power answers these questions as it interweaves groundbreaking queer oral history with meticulous archival research into the discourses on homosexuality and transsexuality in Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1989.

The Cycles of American History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 515

The Cycles of American History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999-06-16
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  • Publisher: HMH

A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian discusses “the Cold War, political parties, the presidency, and many broader philosophical issues [with] incisive wit” (Library Journal). A celebrated historian, speechwriter, and adviser to President Kennedy, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. draws on decades of astute observation to construct a dialectic of American politics, or as Time magazine called it, a “recurring struggle between pragmatism and idealism in the American soul.” The Cycles of American History traces two conflicting visions of America—Experiment vs. Destiny—through two centuries of political evolution, conflict, and progress. In this updated edition, Schlesinger reflects on the da...

Historica
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Historica

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A History of the Czech Lands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 745

A History of the Czech Lands

Born January 1, 1993 after it split with Slovakia, the Czech Republic is one of the youngest members of the European Union. Despite its youth as a nation, this land and the areas just outside its modern borders boasts an ancient and intricate past. With A History of the Czech Lands, editors Jaroslav Pánek and Oldrich Tuma—along with several scholars from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Charles University—provide one of the most complete historical accounts of this region to date. Pánek and Tuma’s history begins in the Neolithic era and follows the development of the state as it transformed into the Kingdom of Bohemia during the ninth century, into Czechoslovakia aft...

Historical Bibliography as an Essential Source for Historiography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

Historical Bibliography as an Essential Source for Historiography

This volume brings together papers presented at the Fifth International Conference of the European Historical Bibliographies Project, held in Prague on November 7 - 8, 2013, under the auspices of the Department of Historical Bibliography of the Institute of History of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic. The conference attracted bibliographers, historians and librarians from Denmark, France, Ireland, Lithuania, Germany, Switzerland and from a number of Czech institutions and libraries, who gathered to discuss a wide range of topics. The main theme of the conference was the significance of historical bibliography for historical science. Given the diversity of professional focus among...

Sacri canones servandi sunt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 736

Sacri canones servandi sunt

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Scholars of Early Modern Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

Scholars of Early Modern Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Historical Sciences in Czechoslovakia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Historical Sciences in Czechoslovakia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Z dějin české každodennosti
  • Language: cs
  • Pages: 430

Z dějin české každodennosti

Kniha Z dějin české každodennosti přináší objevný pohled na život v Čechách 19. století. Práce na pomezí historie kultury, antropologie a dějin všedního dne opouští pole velkých, politických dějin a sleduje "mikrohistorii" vrstev společnosti, jednotlivců a každodenního běhu jejich života. Autoři se snažili zachytit z této široké oblasti vše podstatné: prolínání soukromého a veřejného, profánního a zčásti náboženského, jednotlivé úkony, rituály, činnosti a stereotypy. Popisují a z hlediska problematiky historického poznání také kriticky vykládají proměny společnosti, jež dosud žije ? alespoň pokud se většiny obyvatelstva týče ? skromně, ale kterou obklopuje stále rozsáhlejší svět předmětů a která už má nakročeno ke konzumnímu způsobu života. Třetí dotisk prvního vydání

Principy reprezentativní vlády
  • Language: cs
  • Pages: 260

Principy reprezentativní vlády

Reprezentativní vládu mnozí z nás považují bezmála za synonymum demokracie. Francouzský politolog Bernard Manin ve své studii ukazuje, že historicky tvořil princip reprezentace naopak protiváhu k demokracii jakožto vládě shromážděného lidu. Vysvětluje, jak se principy reprezentace vyvíjely v politických zřízeních antických Atén, Říma, italských renesančních republik i moderních států, a jak se proměňovaly formy výběru reprezentantů – mimo jiné věnuje pozornost i dnes téměř zapomenuté volbě losem. Zaměřuje se rovněž na proměny reprezentativní vlády od klasického parlamentarismu po dnešní populismem ovládanou demokracii publika. Maninova práce je cenným zdrojem pro každého, kdo chce lépe porozumět výzvám, jimž demokratické režimy musely čelit a čelí jak v minulosti, tak přítomnosti.