Research Catalog

Title

A history of the Czech lands / Jaroslav Pánek, Oldřich Tůma, et alii [and others] ; English translation by Justin Quinn, Petra Key, Lea Bennis.

Author

Pánek, Jaroslav

Publication

• Prague : Charles University : Karolinum Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tůma, Oldřich
• Quinn, Justin, 1968-
• Key, Petra
• Bennis, Lea
• Pánek, Jaroslav.

Description

729 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, color maps; 24 cm

Summary

A History of the Czech Lands is an output of long-term project of new paradigmatic textbook of Czech history, written and edited in respect to the important changes the Czech Republic has been going through after the collapse of the Iron curtain.

Uniform Title

Dějiny českých zemí. English

Alternative Title

Dějiny českých zemí.

Subjects

• Czechoslovakia
• Czech Republic
• Czechoslovakia > History
• History
• Czechs > History
• Czech Republic > History

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Translated from the Czech.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction to the second edition -- Territorial development and the transformation of landscape / Eva Semotanová -- Prehistory and beginnings of Slavic settlement (to the 8th century) / Dušan Třeštík -- Great Moravia and the beginnings of the State (9th and 10th centuries) / Dušan Třeštík -- The Czech State in the era of Premyslid princes and kings (from the beginning of the 11th century to 1306) / Dušan Třeštík and Josef Žemlička -- The expansion of the Czech state during the era of the Luxemburgs (1306-1419) / Miloslav Polívka -- The Hussite Revolution (1419-1471) / František Šmahel -- The Bohemian Crownlands under the Jagiellons (1471-1526) / Jaroslav Boubín -- The Czech estates in the Habsburg monarchy (1526-1620) / Jaroslav Pánek -- Baroque absolutism (1620-1740) / Jirǐ ́Mikulec -- Enlightened absolutism and the birth of a modern state (1740-1792) / Martina Ondo Grečenková -- The birth of the modern Czech Nation (1792-1848) / Jan Hájek and Milan Hlavačka -- Czechs during the revolution and Neo-absolutism(1848-1860) / Milan Hlavačka -- The definition of Czech National Society during the period of liberalism and nationalism (1860-1914) / Pavel Cibulka, Jan Hájek, and Martin Kučera -- The Czech Lands during the First World War (1914-1918) / Josef Harna -- First Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938) / Josef Harna -- Czechoslovakia in the years after the Munich Agreement and in the Second World War (1938-1945) / Jan Gebhart -- Czechoslovakia between two totalitarian systems (1945-1948) / Jirǐ ́Kocian -- The establishment and first crisis of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia (1948-1958) / Jirǐ ́Pernes -- Communist Czechoslovakia on a journey from a consolidation of totalitarianism towards a liberalization of the regime (1959-1967) / Jirǐ ́Pernes -- The half-life: the communist regime's greatest crisis (1967-1971) / Oldřich Tůma -- The second consolidation of the communist regime and the descent into collapse (1972-1989) / Oldřich Tůma -- Czechoslovakia's return to democracy (1989-1992) / Jirǐ ́Suk -- Czech Republic (1993-2004) / Tomáš Zahradníček.

Call Number

JFE 20-3878

ISBN

• 9788024622279
• 8024622270

OCLC

874931431

Author

Pánek, Jaroslav, author, editor.

Title

A history of the Czech lands / Jaroslav Pánek, Oldřich Tůma, et alii [and others] ; English translation by Justin Quinn, Petra Key, Lea Bennis.

Publisher

Prague : Charles University : Karolinum Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

Second edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Nationality/regional group: Czechoslovaks

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

TRANSLATED FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIAN.

Added Author

Tůma, Oldřich, author, editor.

Quinn, Justin, 1968- translator.

Key, Petra, translator.

Bennis, Lea, translator.

Translation of: Pánek, Jaroslav. Dějiny českých zemí.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3878