Czech Republic / Vladk̕a Edmondson with David Short, compilers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edmondson, Vladk̕a.

Contributor:

Short, David, 1943-

Series:

World bibliographical series ; v. 219.

World bibliographical series ; v. 219

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Czech Republic--Bibliography.

Czech Republic.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

xxv, 430 pages : map ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press, [1999]

Contents:

The Country and Its People 1

Geography and Geology 8

General, physical and demographic 8

Regional 10

Maps and atlases 12

Tourism and Travel Guides 14

Central and Eastern Europe 14

Czech Republic 15

Tourist events 18

Prague and regions 18

Prague 18

Regions 21

Flora and Fauna 23

Flora 23

Fauna 25

Prehistory and Archaeology 27

Heraldry 30

History 32

Central and Eastern Europe 32

Czech Lands 34

Early mediaeval, mediaeval and early modern history 40

Reformation, Jan Hus, Hussitism 41

George of Podebrady 44

Anabaptism and the Czech Brethren 44

Habsburg period (16th century to 1918) 45

16th to 19th century 47

1900-18 52

Independence to Munich (1918-38) 54

Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937) and the Masaryk family 56

Munich and the Second World War (1938-45) 60

The Munich crisis, Edvard Benes 60

Second World War and the Czech resistance abroad 62

Post-war period (1945- ) 65

Prague Spring and Soviet intervention in 1968 69

The Velvet Revolution of 1989 and the dissolution of Czechoslovakia 73

Vaclav Havel 75

Nationalities and Minorities 79

General and historical 79

The Roma (the gypsies) 81

The Jews 86

The Germans 89

Other nationalities and minorities 93

Extraterritorial Populations 94

Folklore and Folk Art 99

Religion and Theology 102

Non-Roman Catholic denominations and ideological groups 107

The issue of the ordination of women 108

Religious orders 109

Modern theologians 110

Religious symbolism 112

Social conditions, Women's Issues, Children's Issues, Health and Welfare 113

Social conditions 113

Women's issues 118

Children's issues 121

Health care 122

Education 125

Comenius 128

Statistics 132

Philosophy 136

Politics 137

Political history 137

The Communist era, 1948-89 141

Contemporary: post-1989 144

Separation of Czechs and Slovaks, 1 January 1993 144

Czech Republic, 1993- 146

International Relations 153

International security 159

Constitution and Law 161

Central and Eastern Europe 161

Czech Republic 164

Business law 165

Local government 166

Economy 168

Economic history 170

Post-1989 173

Central and Eastern Europe 173

Czech Republic 178

The tax system 184

Doing business 185

Periodicals 187

Banking and Finance 189

Central and Eastern Europe 189

Czech Republic 192

The Stock Exchange 195

Agriculture 197

Industry and Trade 200

Retailing and services 204

Industrial sectors 205

Transport 212

Science and Technology 216

Urbanization and Housing Policy 220

The Environment 225

Sport and Recreation 229

Language / David Short 235

General and historical 235

Dictionaries 236

Specialist 242

Grammars and textbooks 245

Literature 253

Central and Eastern European 253

Czech 255

History and criticism 255

Translations and criticism of the works of individual writers 264

Anthologies 277

Emigre literature 281

Literature of other nationalities 289

German 289

Franz Kafka 290

The Arts 298

Visual arts 300

Applied arts 305

Theatre 308

Film 309

Architecture 313

Music 321

Bedrich Smetana 324

Antonin Dvorak 325

Leos Janacek 328

Bohuslav Martinu 333

Food and Drink 336

The Media and Publishing 338

Newspapers and Periodicals 341

Czech-language newspapers and periodicals 341

English-language newspapers and periodicals 342

Scholarly journals 344

Business periodicals 346

Archives, Libraries, Museums and Galleries 348

Archives and libraries 348

Museums and galleries 351.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Revision of Czechoslovakia, compiled by David Short (1986).

ISBN:

1851093044

OCLC:

42003690