Coasts of Bohemia A Czech History

Name: Coasts of Bohemia A Czech History
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ISBN: 9780691050522

ISBN-10: 069105052X

ISBN-13: 9780691050522

Edition: 1998

Authors: Derek Sayer

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InThe Winter's Tale, Shakespeare gave the landlocked country of Bohemia a coastline--a famous and, to Czechs, typical example of foreigners' ignorance of the Czech homeland. Although the lands that were once the Kingdom of Bohemia lie at the heart of Europe, Czechs are usually encountered only in the margins of other people's stories. InThe Coasts of Bohemia, Derek Sayer reverses this perspective. He presents a comprehensive and long-needed history of the Czech people that is also a remarkably original history of modern Europe, told from its uneasy center. Sayer shows that Bohemia has long been a theater of European conflict. It has been a cradle of Protestantism and a bulwark of the…

Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/19/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Derek Sayer holds the Canada Research Chair in Social Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. His books include The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History and The Great Arch.



List of Maps and Illustrations


Acknowledgments a Note on Czech Pronunciation Bearings



The Company of Our Great Minds A Great Artist and a Great Czech The End of Culture Faithful We Shall Remain



Materials of Memory The Crown of Saint Wenceslas Against All Three Hundred Years We Suffered



Rebirth The Count's National Theater Enlightenment Home Cooking



Mirrors of Identity A Burghers' Banquet The Affordable National Library Little Golden Chapel on the Vltava A Cathedral and a Fortress A Procession of Servant Girls Palacky's Looking-Glass A Discovery in Dvur Kralove Memories of Ivancice



Modernisms and Modernities Futurist Manifestos Guten Tag und auf Wiedersehen The Completion of Saint Vitus's New Hussite Armies The International Style Emily Comes in a Dream



Eternal Returns The Art of Remaining Standing Grave Far Away Bila hora Redressed--Again



Future Perfect Neither the Swan nor the Moon Prayer for Marta The Lineup for Meat In the Land Where Tomorrow Already Means Yesterday Father Ales and Old Mr. Jirasek Children's Eyes and Fiery Tongues Love Is at Work It Is Tireless


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