Czech Republic

Titel: Czech Republic
Verfasser:
Beteiligt:
Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Clio, 1999
Umfang: xxv,430p.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
World bibliographical series ; v.219
ISBN: 1851093044
  • Preface
  • p. xv
  • Introduction
  • p. xix
  • The Country and Its People
  • p. 1
  • Geography and Geology
  • p. 8
  • General, physical and demographic
  • p. 8
  • Regional
  • p. 10
  • Maps and atlases
  • p. 12
  • Tourism and Travel Guides
  • p. 14
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • p. 14
  • Czech Republic
  • p. 15
  • Tourist events
  • p. 18
  • Prague and regions
  • p. 18
  • Prague
  • p. 18
  • Regions
  • p. 21
  • Flora and Fauna
  • p. 23
  • Flora
  • p. 23
  • Fauna
  • p. 25
  • Prehistory and Archaeology
  • p. 27
  • Heraldry
  • p. 30
  • History
  • p. 32
  • General
  • p. 32
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • p. 32
  • Czech Lands
  • p. 34
  • Early mediaeval, mediaeval and early modern history
  • p. 40
  • General
  • p. 40
  • Reformation, Jan Hus, Hussitism
  • p. 41
  • George of Podebrady
  • p. 44
  • Anabaptism and the Czech Brethren
  • p. 44
  • Habsburg period (16th century to 1918)
  • p. 45
  • General
  • p. 45
  • 16th to 19th century
  • p. 47
  • 1900-18
  • p. 52
  • Independence to Munich (1918-38)
  • p. 54
  • General
  • p. 54
  • Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937) and the Masaryk family
  • p. 56
  • Munich and the Second World War (1938-45)
  • p. 60
  • The Munich crisis, Edvard Benes
  • p. 60
  • Second World War and the Czech resistance abroad
  • p. 62
  • Post-war period (1945- )
  • p. 65
  • General
  • p. 65
  • Prague Spring and Soviet intervention in 1968
  • p. 69
  • The Velvet Revolution of 1989 and the dissolution of Czechoslovakia
  • p. 73
  • General
  • p. 73
  • Vaclav Havel
  • p. 75
  • Nationalities and Minorities
  • p. 79
  • General and historical
  • p. 79
  • The Roma (the gypsies)
  • p. 81
  • The Jews
  • p. 86
  • The Germans
  • p. 89
  • Other nationalities and minorities
  • p. 93
  • Extraterritorial Populations
  • p. 94
  • Folklore and Folk Art
  • p. 99
  • Religion and Theology
  • p. 102
  • General
  • p. 102
  • Non-Roman Catholic denominations and ideological groups
  • p. 107
  • The issue of the ordination of women
  • p. 108
  • Religious orders
  • p. 109
  • Modern theologians
  • p. 110
  • Miscellaneous
  • p. 111
  • Religious symbolism
  • p. 112
  • Social conditions, Women's Issues, Children's Issues, Health and Welfare
  • p. 113
  • Social conditions
  • p. 113
  • Women's issues
  • p. 118
  • Children's issues
  • p. 121
  • Health care
  • p. 122
  • Education
  • p. 125
  • General
  • p. 125
  • Comenius
  • p. 128
  • Statistics
  • p. 132
  • Philosophy
  • p. 136
  • Politics
  • p. 137
  • Political history
  • p. 137
  • The Communist era, 1948-89
  • p. 141
  • Contemporary: post-1989
  • p. 144
  • General
  • p. 144
  • Separation of Czechs and Slovaks, 1 January 1993
  • p. 144
  • Czech Republic, 1993-
  • p. 146
  • International Relations
  • p. 153
  • General
  • p. 153
  • International security
  • p. 159
  • Constitution and Law
  • p. 161
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • p. 161
  • Czech Republic
  • p. 164
  • Business law
  • p. 165
  • Local government
  • p. 166
  • Economy
  • p. 168
  • Reference
  • p. 168
  • Economic history
  • p. 170
  • Post-1989
  • p. 173
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • p. 173
  • Czech Republic
  • p. 178
  • The tax system
  • p. 184
  • Doing business
  • p. 185
  • Miscellaneous
  • p. 186
  • Periodicals
  • p. 187
  • Banking and Finance
  • p. 189
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • p. 189
  • Czech Republic
  • p. 192
  • General
  • p. 192
  • The Stock Exchange
  • p. 195
  • Agriculture
  • p. 197
  • Industry and Trade
  • p. 200
  • General
  • p. 200
  • Retailing and services
  • p. 204
  • Industrial sectors
  • p. 205
  • Transport
  • p. 212
  • Science and Technology
  • p. 216
  • Urbanization and Housing Policy
  • p. 220
  • The Environment
  • p. 225
  • Sport and Recreation
  • p. 229
  • Language
  • p. 235
  • General and historical
  • p. 235
  • Dictionaries
  • p. 236
  • General
  • p. 236
  • Specialist
  • p. 242
  • Grammars and textbooks
  • p. 245
  • Miscellaneous
  • p. 249
  • Literature
  • p. 253
  • Central and Eastern European
  • p. 253
  • Czech
  • p. 255
  • History and criticism
  • p. 255
  • Translations and criticism of the works of individual writers
  • p. 264
  • Anthologies
  • p. 277
  • Emigre literature
  • p. 281
  • Literature of other nationalities
  • p. 289
  • German
  • p. 289
  • General
  • p. 289
  • Franz Kafka
  • p. 290
  • Other
  • p. 296
  • The Arts
  • p. 298
  • General
  • p. 298
  • Visual arts
  • p. 300
  • Applied arts
  • p. 305
  • Theatre
  • p. 308
  • Film
  • p. 309
  • Architecture
  • p. 313
  • Music
  • p. 321
  • General
  • p. 321
  • Bedrich Smetana
  • p. 324
  • Antonin Dvorak
  • p. 325
  • Leos Janacek
  • p. 328
  • Bohuslav Martinu
  • p. 333
  • Food and Drink
  • p. 336
  • The Media and Publishing
  • p. 338
  • Newspapers and Periodicals
  • p. 341
  • Czech-language newspapers and periodicals
  • p. 341
  • English-language newspapers and periodicals
  • p. 342
  • Scholarly journals
  • p. 344
  • Business periodicals
  • p. 346
  • Archives, Libraries, Museums and Galleries
  • p. 348
  • Archives and libraries
  • p. 348
  • Museums and galleries
  • p. 351
  • Bibliographies
  • p. 355
  • Index of Authors
  • p. 361
  • Index of Titles
  • p. 375
  • Index of Subjects
  • p. 403
  • Map of the Czech Republic
  • p. 431