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The course is designed as a introduction for foreign history students who are interested in studying Czech history. It is focused on explaining basic geographical and chronological concepts as well as national metanarratives and Czech historical stereotypes. It also presents topics and methods of contemporary Czech historiography. Poslední úprava: Kremer Jan, Mgr. (15.02.2021)
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Written essay. Poslední úprava: Kremer Jan, Mgr. (15.02.2021)
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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. ● 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 (Course Reader).
Recommended Readings ● 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. ● Cornwall, M. and R. J. W. Evans (eds.), Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe, Oxford 2007. ● Crowley D. – Reid S., edd. Socialist Spaces. Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc 2002. ● Demetz, P. (1997). Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes from the Life of a European City, Hill and Wang New York. ● Gellner E., Nations and Nationalism, Oxford 1983.
● Novák J. (Ed.), On Masaryk, Amsterdam 1988. ● Pehe J. (ed.), The Prague Spring: A Mixed Legacy, London 1988. ● Ripellino A. M., Magic Prague, UCP 1993. ● Rupnik J., The Other Europe, New York 1989.
● Sayer D., The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Princeton University Press 1998. ● Svobodný P., Historical Institutes, History Departments, Archives, Museums in the Czech Republic. A Guide, Prague 2000. ● 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. Poslední úprava: Kremer Jan, Mgr. (15.02.2021)
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