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The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation : Czech Culture and the Rise of Communism
Bradley F. Abrams
Paperback - $71.95
This original study revisits the critical historical and cultural debates in Czech society immediately following World War II. Bradley F. Abrams discovers that communist public figures were largely successful in controlling the discourse over the nat ...
Prague Pictures : A Portrait of the City
John Banville
Hardcover - $27.95
The fourth book in Bloomsbury's Writer and the City series. From one of the foremost chroniclers of the modern European experience, this is a panoramic view of a city that has seduced and bewitched visitors for centuries.
Prague : A Cultural and Literary History
Richard D. E. Burton
Paperback - $24.95
A treasure house of gothic, baroque, and modernist architecture, Prague is also a city of icons and symbols. Burton explores this metropolis of theatrical illusion, where politics and drama intertwine. Illustrations.
The Politics of Ethnic Survival : Germans in Prague, 1861-1914
Gary B. Cohen
Paperback - $75.95
This book examines how one of Imperial Austria's principal ethnic conflicts, that between Czechs and Germans, developed in one of the major cities during the era of industrialization and urban growth. It shows how the inhabitants of Prague, the capit ...
Prague in Black and Gold : Scenes from the Life of a European City
Peter Demetz
Paperback - $26.95
Prague is at the core of everything both wonderful and terrible in Western history, but few people truly understand this city's unique culture. In "Prague in Black and Gold, Peter Demetz strips away sentimentalities and distortions and shows how Czec ...
Czechoslovakia
Maria Dowling
Paperback - $96.95
Located at the heart of Europe between east and west, Czechoslovakia was the pivot of twentieth-century European history. Created in 1918 out of the ruins of an empire, it remained a beacon of democracy in a continent darkened by fascism and communis ...