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Czechoslovakia, twenty years of independence / chapters by Gerald Druce, Malvone W. Graham [and others] ... edited by Robert J. Kerner ...
LIBRA 943.7 K454
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Czechoslovakia--History.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 504 pages : frontispiece, illustrations (maps) plates, portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1940.
- Contents:
- Czecho-Slovakia, a poem, by Edna St. V. Millay.
- pt. I. Background: The Czechoslovaks
- anthropological notes, by Aleš-Hrdlička. The Czechoslovaks to 1620, by S.H. Thomson. The Czechoslovaks from the battle of White mountain to the world war, by R.J. Kerner. The world war, the revolution, and the Peace conference, by R.J. Kerner. What Woodrow Wilson and America meant to Czechoslovakia, by H.A. Miller.
- pt. II. Political and constitutional development: The historical roots of Czech democracy, by Hans Kohn. Constitutional and political structure, by M.W. Graham. Parties and politics, by M.W. Graham. Czechoslovakia and her minorities, by J.S. Roucek. The problem of sub-Carpathian Ruthenia, by Oscar Jászi.
- Notes:
- --pt. III. Economic, social, and cultural development. Agriculture and agrarian reform, by Lucy E. Textor. Czechoslovakia's economic development and achievements, by Gerhard Schacher. Social reform and social legislation, by Brackett Lewis. Humanitarian progress, by H.A. Miller. The religious situation in Czechoslovakia, by Matthew Spinka. Education in a democracy, by F.H. Stuerm. Czechoslovakia's contributions to science, by Gerald Druce. Czechoslovak music, art, and literature, by J.E. Vojan.--pt. IV. Foreign relations: Diplomatic origins and foreign policy, by F.J. Vondracek. The Little entente and the Balkan entente, by H.N. Howard.--pt. V. The passing of Czechoslovakia: Hitler and Hitlerism, by H.W. Speed. The road to Munich and beyond, by B.E. Schmitt. Czechoslovak democracy: was it worth while? By J.T. Shotwell. A prayer for tonight, by Karle Čapek.--pt. VI. Chronology: Chronology, by H.N. Howard.
- Bibliography at end of most of the chapters.
- OCLC:
- 36010821
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