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Knowledge of a host country’s broader historical context is essential for gaining an understanding that country’s modern-day society, its politics, economy, and interpreting attitudes and behavior of its inhabitants. This course provides an overview of the milestones of the history of the Czech Lands going back to primeval times, exploring the highlights of Czech history, such as the empire under Charles IV, religious wars in the Middle Ages, the impact of world wars and the struggle of the Czech people under the communist regime, in the broader cultural context of Europe. It will examine the different ethnicities that populated the territory, including Celtic, Germanic, and Slavic tribes, Czechs, Germans, Jews and Slovaks and the general features of their political, social, and cultural life, and their impact on historical developments as well as modern-day Czech Republic. Poslední úprava: Kremer Jan, Mgr. (15.02.2021)
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By the end of the course the students will:
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Course Requirements
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Textbooks: ● Agnew H., The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, Stanford 2004. ● Čornej P. – Pokorný J., A Brief History of the Czech Lands to 2004, Prague 2004. ● Crampton R. J., Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century - and After. London, 1997. ● Krejčí J., Czechoslovakia at the Crossroads of European History, London-New York 1990. ● Okey R., The Habsburg Monarchy. From Enlightenment to Eclipse, New York 2001. ● Pánek J. – Tůma O. (Eds.), A History of the Czech Lands, Prague 2009. ● Polišenský J. V., History of Czechoslovakia in Outline, Prague 1991 (2nd edition). ● Teich M. (Ed.), Bohemia in History, Cambridge University Press 1998.
Recommended Readings ● Albright M. (2012). Prague Winter. A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948, New York. ● Berend N. (ed.), Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy. Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus c. 900-1200, Cambridge 2007. ● Blaive M., The 1989 Revolution as a Non-Lieu de Mémoire in the Czech Republic, https://cz.boell.org/sites/default/files/downloads/http___oldmail.otoman(1).pdf ● Bolton J., Worlds of Dissent. Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism. Harvard 2014. ● Bren P., The Greengrocer and His TV. The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring, Ithaca 2010. ● Burian, M. et al. (2002). Assassination. Operation Anthropoid 1941-1942, Prague. ● Cornwall, M. and R. J. W. Evans (eds.), Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe, Oxford 2007. ● Courtois S. et al., The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression. Translated by Jonathan Murphy and Mark Kramer, Cambridge, Mass.; London, England: Harvard University Press, 1999. ● Crowhurst, P., Hitler and Czechoslovakia in WW II, London 2013. ● Crowley D. – Reid S., edd. Socialist Spaces. Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc 2002. ● Černá, M.: Cadre Policy, Cadre Work and Screening in Communist Czechoslovakia. Simple Ideas, Complicated Practice. AUC Studia territorialia, č. 2/2011, pp. 9-28. ● David, Z. V. (2003). Finding the Middle Way. The Utraquist’s Liberal Challenge to Rome and Luther, Washington – Baltimore. ● Demetz, P. (1997). Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes from the Life of a European City, Hill and Wang New York. ● Evans R. J. W., Rudolf II and His World. A Study in Intellectual History 1576-1612, Oxford 1973. ● Evans R. J. W., The Making of Habsburg Monarchy 1550-1700, Oxford 1984. ● Faber D., Munich: The 1938 Appeasement Crisis, London 2008. ● Fajt J., Charles IV: Emperor by the Grace of God, Prague 2006. ● Fudge T. A., The Magnificent Ride. The First Reformation in Bohemia, Aldershot 1998. ● Gellner E., Nations and Nationalism, Oxford 1983. ● Havlíček Borovský, K., The Slav and the Czech, in: Trencsényi B. – Kopeček M. (Eds.): Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770-1945) Vol. II, New York 2007, pp. 250-254. ● Klápště J.: The Czech Lands in Medieval Transformation, 2012. ● Korbel J., Twentieth-Century Czechoslovakia (The Meaning of Its History), New York 1977. ● Kovtun G. J. (ed.), Czech and Slovak History. An American Bibliography, Washington 1996. ● Kusin V. V., From Dubcek to Charter 77: A Study of Normalization in Czechoslovakia 1968-1978, New York 1978. ● Lambert M., Medieval Heresy, London 1977. ● Louthan H., Converting Bohemia: Force and Persuation in the Catholic Reformation, Cambridge 2009. ● Marshall, P. (2006). The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy, Astrology and Magic in Renaissance Prague, New York. ● Masaryk T. G., The New Europe, 1975. ● McDonald C. – Kaplan J., Prague in the Shadow of Swastika, Prague 1995. ● Murray W., Munich at Fifty, Commentary 1988, s. 25-30, https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/munich-at-fifty/ ● Musil J. (ed.), The End of Czechoslovakia, Budapest 1995. ● Neville P., Tomáš Masaryk and Eduard Beneš: Czechoslovakia, London 2010. ● Novák J. (Ed.), On Masaryk, Amsterdam 1988. ● Opat J. – Nový, R. – Žemlička, J. (eds.), Illustrated Czech History 1-4, Prague 1996. ● Opat, J., Nový, R., Žemlička, J. (eds.) (1996). , Illustrated Czech History 1-4, Prague. ● Pehe J. (ed.), The Prague Spring: A Mixed Legacy, London 1988. ● Pešková J. (ed), Homage to J. A. Comenius, Prague 1991. ● Polišenský J. V., Tragic Triangle. The Netherlands, Spain and Bohemia 1617-1621, Prague 1991. ● Poulík J., Great Moravia and the Mission of Cyril and Methodius, Prague 1985. ● Ripellino A. M., Magic Prague, UCP 1993. ● Rosario I., Art and Propaganda: Charles IV and Bohemia, Boydell Press 2000. ● Rupnik J., The Other Europe, New York 1989. Sayer D., Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century, Princeton 2013. ● Sayer D., The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Princeton University Press 1998. ● Šmahel F., Jan Hus - Heretic or Patriot?, History Today, August 1990, pp. 27-33 (Course Reader). ● Smetana, V.: The Czechoslovakia’s Leaning to the USSR during World War II and the Collapse of a ‘Bridge Between West and East’ in the Years 1945-1948, In: At the European Crossroads, Praha 2005, pp. 19-23. ● Suk, Jiří: Czechoslovakia in 1989: Causes, Results, and Conceptual Changes. In: Michael Gehler, Wolfgang Mueller, Arnold Suppan (eds.). Revolutions of 1989. A Handbook. Wien 2015, pp. 137–160. ● Scribner B., Porter R. and Teich M. (eds.), The Reformation in National Context, Cambridge University Press 1994. ● Shepherd R. H. E., Czechoslovakia : the velvet revolution and beyond, Houndsmills: Macmillan Press Ltd.; New York: St. Martin‘s Press, 2000. ● Skilling H. G., T. G. Masaryk: Against the Current 1882-1914, The Macmillan Press 1994. ● Štemberková M., Universitas Carolina Pragensis, Prague 1996. ● Svobodný P., Historical Institutes, History Departments, Archives, Museums in the Czech Republic. A Guide, Prague 2000. ● Thomas A., Anne's Bohemia: Czech Literature and Society, 1310-1420, University of Minnesota Press 1998. ● Trencsényi, B. and Kopeček, M. (eds) (2006-2007). Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770-1945) Vol. I-II, Central European University Press Budapest – New York. ● Wagner M. L., Petr Chelčický. Radical Separatist in Hussite Bohemia, Scottdale 1983. ● Wandycz P. S., The price of freedom: A history of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the present, London 1993. ● Wandycz P., The Price of Freedom, London 1992. ● Wolverton L., Hastening toward Prague : power and society in the medieval Czech lands, Philadelphia 2001. ● Yurchak A., Everything was Forever until it was no more: The last Soviet generation, Princeton 2005. ● Zacek J. F.: Palacký. The Historian as Scholar and Nationalist. Hague 1970. Video Games · Attentat 1942, official web page Poslední úprava: Kremer Jan, Mgr. (15.02.2021)
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