Central European History Compared - JMMZ111
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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Václav Šmidrkal, Ph.D. (24.10.2019)
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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Václav Šmidrkal, Ph.D. (27.09.2018)
Recommended literature
Austria Beller, Steven. A Concise History of Austria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Rathkolb, Oliver. The Pradoxical Republic: Austria 1945–2010. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010.
Czechia/Czechoslovakia Agnew, Hugh LeCaine. The Czechs and the lands of the Bohemian crown. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2004. McDermott, Kevin. Communist Czechoslovakia, 1945–89: A Political and Social History. London: Palgrave, 2015. Pánek, Jaroslav, Oldřich Tůma et al., A history of the Czech lands. Prague: Karolinum, 2009.
East-Central Europe Pittaway, Mark. Eastern Europe, 1939–2000. London: Hodder Arnold, 2004. Rothschild, Joseph and Nancy M. Wingfield. Return to diversity: a political history of East Central Europe since World War II, 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Ther, Philipp. Europe since 1989: A History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Wandycz, Piotr S. The Price of Freedom: A History of East Central Europe from Middele Ages to the Present. London: Routledge, 2001.
Europe Jarausch, Konrad H. Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. Judt, Tony. Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945. London: Vintage, 2010. Kaelble, Hartmut. The social history of Europe, 1945–2000: recovery and transformation after two World Wars. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. Kershaw, Ian. To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914–1949. London: Penguin Books, 2016. Kershaw, Ian. Roller-Coster: Europe, 1950–2017, London: Penguin Books, 2018.
(East) Germany Fulbrook, Mary. A History of Germany: 1918–2008: The Divided Nation. Malden, Mass: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Grieder, Peter. The German Democratic Republic. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Historical Geography Magocsi, Paul R. Historical atlas of Central Europe. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.
Hungary Kontler, Laszló. A History of Hungary. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Poland Davies, Norman. God’s Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 2 1795 to present. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Kemp-Welch, Anthony. Poland under communism: a Cold War history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Slovakia Kirschbaum, Stanislav J. Historical Dictionary of Slovakia. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2007. Kirschbaum, Stanislav J. A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2005. |
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Poslední úprava: PhDr. Václav Šmidrkal, Ph.D. (27.09.2018)
JMMZ111 - Modern Central European History Compared
PLEASE NOTE: This course is only for the English speaking master's programme Central European Comparative Studies (CECS).
Course Structure
The course is made up by double lessons, each of which is divided into a lecture and a seminar.
1. Introduction to the course 2. What is Central Europe? Definition, geography, identity 3. La Belle Époque: Central Europe at the beginning of the 20th century 4. Nation, War and Revolution: Downfall and reconstitution of Central Europe, 1914–1918 5. Democracy, autocracy and minorities in interwar Central Europe, 1918–1939 6. Occupation, resistance and collaboration in Central Europe, 1938–1945 7. Forced migrations, transitional justice and the “Iron Curtain”, 1945–1950 8. Central European Stalinism(s), 1950–1956 9. On different paths towards 1968 10. The limits of growth: consumer society in Central Europe in the 1970s and 1980s 11. Annus mirabilis 1989: Why so easy? 12. Neoliberal Central Europe, 1989–2008 |
