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The icon curtain : the Cold War's quiet border / Yuliya Komska.
LIBRA DD78.S77 K66 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Komska, Yuliya, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sudeten Germans--History--20th century.
- Sudeten Germans.
- Boundaries.
- History.
- Religion.
- Travelers' writings, German.
- Bohemian Forest--Description and travel.
- Bohemian Forest.
- Travelers' writings, German--History and criticism--20th century.
- Bohemian Forest--Church history--20th century.
- Sudeten Germans--Religion.
- Bohemian Forest--In art.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1945-1992.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Germany (West)--Boundaries--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.
- Germany (West).
- Czechoslovakia--Boundaries--Germany (West)--History--20th century.
- Cold War.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- Conditions: ruins of the Cold War
- Cornerstones: iconoclasm and the making of the prayer wall
- Infrastructure: civilian border travel and travelogues
- Uses: visual nostalgia at the prayer wall
- Epilogue: tragic frames.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226154190
- 022615419X
- OCLC:
- 871670544
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