The Coasts Of Bohemia

Author : Derek Sayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691050522
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coasts of Bohemia written by Derek Sayer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-19 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of the Czech people, examining the significance of the small central European nation's artistic, literary, and political developments from its origins through approximately 1960.

Author : Derek Sayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691214433
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coasts of Bohemia written by Derek Sayer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Derek Sayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Author : Jiri Janac
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089645012
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Coasts of Bohemia written by Jiri Janac and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal promised to create an integrated waterway system across Europe, linking Black Sea ports to Atlantic markets and giving landlocked Czech nation its own connections to the ocean. The fascinating history of this never-completed project, European Coasts of Bohemia tells the story of the experts who confronted and contributed to different and often conflicting geopolitical visions of Europe. Jíra Janác shows how the canal-backers adapted themselves to various political developments, such as the break-up of the Austrian–Hungarian Empire and the integration into the Soviet Bloc, while still managing to keep the canal project alive.

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849657590
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coast Of Bohemia written by William Dean Howells and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2020 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Howells has always had a pretty taste in titles, and 'The Coast of Bohemia', by its name alone, brings pleasurable anticipations. Nor are they doomed to disappointment in this instance, for the story is pleasing in all its aspects. The Bohemia upon whose coasts it bids us linger is the somewhat sophisticated and denationalized Bohemia of the New York art schools and studios ; the flavor of its life is very different from that of the enchanted region which Murger opened for us, but its ways are engaging if decorous, and its denizens are very much alive while not too much in earnest. We do not discover among them any of the queer creatures that we have rather learned to expect in a novel by Mr. Howells — for once those creatures with their fads seem to have been shelved — but find merely a little group of humanly interesting men and women, leading lives rational in the main, and brought into relations which elicit the author's best powers of serious analysis, relieved by touches of his dry and delightful humor. The manner is still that of real ism, but a realism not too exclusive of the methods of art, and capable of giving the name of Charmian to one of the characters, no slight concession to the enemy. Moreover, the story is essentially a love-story, and it comes to the proper conclusion of love-stories, although there is one period of suspense when, knowing the perverse capabilities of the writer, the reader wonders if it really is going to end anywhere. It is well that there should be searchings of soul, but it is not well that they should rob stories — as Mr. Howells sometimes permits them to — of their legitimate endings.

Author : Derek Sayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691043809
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century written by Derek Sayer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-07 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asserts that Prague could well be seen as the capital of the twentieth century, describing how the city has experienced and suffered more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis.

Author : Page Thomas Nelson
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781318946686
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coast of Bohemia written by Page Thomas Nelson and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Thomas Nelson Page
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.DP/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coast of Bohemia written by Thomas Nelson Page and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coast of Bohemia written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781404732483
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book The Coast of Bohemia written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: