The Coasts of Bohemia : : A Czech History / / Derek Sayer.
In The 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...
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Sayer, Derek, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Coasts of Bohemia : A Czech History / Derek Sayer. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021] ©1998 1 online resource (464 p.) : 56 halftones, 3 maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON CZECH PRONUNCIATION -- BEARINGS -- ONE. THE COMPANY OF OUR GREAT MINDS -- TWO. MATERIALS OF MEMORY -- THREE. REBIRTH -- FOUR. MIRRORS OF IDENTITY -- FIVE. MODERNISMS AND MODERNITIES -- SIX. ETERNAL RETURNS -- SEVEN. FUTURE PERFECT -- NOTES -- SOURCES -- INDEX -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In The 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. In The 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 Counter-Reformation; an Austrian imperial province and a proudly Slavic national state; the most easterly democracy in Europe; and a westerly outlier of the Soviet bloc. The complexities of its location have given rise to profound (and often profoundly comic) reflections on the modern condition. Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Hasek, Karel Capek and Milan Kundera are all products of its spirit of place. Sayer describes how Bohemia's ambiguities and contradictions are those of Europe itself, and he considers the ironies of viewing Europe, the West, and modernity from the vantage point of a country that has been too often ignored. The Coasts of Bohemia draws on an enormous array of literary, musical, visual, and documentary sources ranging from banknotes to statues, museum displays to school textbooks, funeral orations to operatic stage-sets, murals in subway stations to censors' indexes of banned books. It brings us into intimate contact with the ever changing details of daily life--the street names and facades of buildings, the heroes figured on postage stamps--that have created and recreated a sense of what it is to be Czech. Sayer's sustained concern with questions of identity, memory, and power place the book at the heart of contemporary intellectual debate. It is an extraordinary story, beautifully told. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) HISTORY / Europe / Eastern. bisacsh Academy of Fine Arts. Agrarian party. Babička (Němcová). Bata company. Brno. Germanization. Gothic architecture. Halas, František. Hussites. Jews. Moravia. Nazis. advertisements. bourgeoisie. cafés. camps. censorship. children's books. colonization. communism. coronations. democracy. economy. elections. ethnicity. fascism. film. functionalism. historiography. identity. illustration. land. monumentalism. opera. parliaments. peasants. poetry. Česká moderna. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691214436?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691214436 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691214436.jpg |
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