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The Czech reader : history, culture, politics / Jan Bazant, Nina Bazantova, and Frances Starn, eds.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- World readers.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- The world readers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Czechoslovakia--History.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Czechoslovakia--Politics and government.
- Czechoslovakia--Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (577 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Introduces the history, culture, and politics of the Czech people through more than 150 primary texts and images.
- Contents:
- Report on a journey to Prague in 965 / Ibrahim ibn Yaqub at-Turtushi
- Legend of saints Cyril, Methodius, Wenceslas and Ludmila / Kristian
- Bohemian chronicle / Cosmas
- Letter to Agnes of Prague / Clare of Assisi
- Chronicle of the Prague church / Benes Krabice of Weitmile
- The ointment seller / Anonymous
- Tkadlecek / Anonymous
- Letter to the Czechs / Jan Hus
- Who are God's warriors? / Hussite hymn
- Letter to the Hussites / Joan of Arc
- The net of faith / Petr Chelcicky
- Dove and picture / Elizabeth Jane Weston
- To the memory of Tycho Brahe / Jan Campanus
- Description of Prague in the time of Rudolph II / Pierre Bergeron
- Letter of majesty of Rudolph II
- Labyrinth of the world and paradise of the heart / Komensky
- Jan of Nepomuk / Bohuslav Balbin
- The Rakovnice Christmas play / Anonymous
- On Slav nations / Johann Gottfried Herder
- Ms. of Zelena Hora (Judgment of Libuse) / Hoax
- Home cookery / Magdalena Dobromila Rettigova
- History of the Czech nation in Bohemia and Moravia / Frantisek Palacky
- May / Karel Hynek Macha
- Where is my home? / Josef Kajetan Tyl
- Water sprite / Karel J. Erben
- Grandmother / Bozena Nemcova
- "Let us rejoice" from Bartered Bride / Bedrich Smetana; libretto by Karel Sabina
- The three lilies / Jan Neruda
- The ballad of Blanik / Jaroslav Vrchlicky
- Late towards morning / Karel Hlavacek
- Letter from the new world / Antonin Dvorak
- Golem / Alois Jirasek
- Report to an academy / Franz Kafka
- Sole work / Otokar Brezina
- Marycka Magdonova / Petr Bezruc
- The fateful adventures of good soldier Svejk / Jaroslav Hasek
- R.U.R. / Karel Capek
- Valerie and her week of wonders / Vitezslav Nezval
- Summer of caprice / Vladislav Vancura
- Munich agreement
- At the tomb of Czech kings / Jaroslav Seifert
- Life with a star / Jiri Weil
- On the elimination of the Czech people / Reinhard Heydrich
- The cowards / Josef Skvorecky
- A little boy's hair was cut right down to the scalp / Josef Kainar
- From the last letters / Milada Horakova
- Cigarette / Ivan Blatny
- Prometheus's liver / Jiri Kolar
- A night with Hamlet / Vladimir Holan
- The garden party / VaclavHavel
- The joke / Milan Kundera
- Two thousand words / Ludvik Vaculik
- Close the gate, little brother / Karel Kryl
- Magic Prague / Angelo Maria Ripellino
- In-house weddings / Bohumil Hrabal
- Head of the Virgin Mary / Jaroslav Seifert
- What are Czechs? / Jan Patocka
- Charter 77
- Czech dream book / Ludvik Vaculik
- Politics and conscience / VaclavHavel
- Culture / Gene Deitch
- Utz / Bruce Chatwin
- City sister silver / Jachym Topol
- Prague 1989, theater of revolution / Michael Andrew Kukral
- Czech-German Declaration
- After the revolution / Erazim Kohak
- Europeana : a brief history of the twentieth century / Patrik Ourednik
- April 5, 2009 speech in Prague / Barack Hussein Obama.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822347998
- 9786613251824
- 9781283251822
- 1283251825
- 9780822393030
- 0822393034
- OCLC:
- 717334811
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