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Understanding Russia? Helping Ukraine? Poles and Germans on the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2017)The paper analyses public opinion on the Russo-Ukrainian conflict in Germany and Poland in the context of the EU policy responses to it, utilising the concept of “strategic culture”. Seeing Russia as a military threat and ... -
A Structural Assessment of the U.S. Counterespionage Vis-à-vis Chinese Espionage Effort
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2017)This essay examines the historical context, structure and focus of the U.S. counterespionage, or institutionalized capability to detect and neutralize human assets or spies, its strengths and weaknesses; it provides an ... -
Sixteenth-century Mexican Architecture: Transmission of Forms and Ideas between the Old and New World
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2017)This article deals with the subject of 16th century Mexican monastic architecture and its artistic embellishments. Its aim is to present the architecture and its decoration program within an appropriate historical context, ... -
Příběhy falešných mesiášů. Židovská hereze Jakuba Franka a její reflexe v polské literatuře
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2016)This paper examines the reflection of a heretical religious movement of the 18th century created by Jacob Frank in Polish literature, more particularly in the prose of Julian Stryjkowski, Aleksander Wat and Olga Tokarczuk. -
„Němečtí Židé“ v Československu v letech 1945–1948
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2016)This article deals with the situation and legal status of the so-called German Jews in Czechoslovakia during 1945–1948. It focuses on Jewish survivors who declared that they had German nationality in the 1930 census. Not ... -
Robert Knox, transcendentální anatomie a imaginace rasové války
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2017)The main aim of the study is to emphasize the role and contribution of the Scottish physician and surgeon Robert Knox to the emergence and expansion of modern racial thinking and the concept of a racial war which became ... -
Meeting the Other in the New World: Jesuit Missionaries from the Bohemian Province in America
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2017)This paper focuses on the participation of missionaries from the “Bohemian Province“ of the Society of Jesus in the colonization of America in the 17th and 18th century, and the representation of the New World in letters ... -
Válka jako stvořitelka a ničitelka národů, národních států a impérií. Evropská zkušenost od napoleonské éry
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2016)This study examines the role of war in the processes of decay and emergence of nations, nation-states and empires in Europe from the Napoleonic wars to the First World War. Throughout the period under review up to 1914 no ... -
Václav Havel a jeho zápletky
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2016)This paper deals with the genre of biography as a specific mode of organisation of commemoration citing the example of biographies of Václav Havel. The author analyses four biographies of Václav Havel from the perspective ... -
Spotřeba, životní styl a reklama v době státně socialistické diktatury jako identitotvorný prvek
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2016)This paper attempts to show how studying the history of consumer culture can help to reveal identity-forming processes in Czech society. The author first outlines how this topic was highlighted in the German environment ... -
Hledání ideálního státu. Cesta do Ofírské země M. M. Ščerbatova mezi historickým mýtem a utopií
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2017)This paper analyses M. M. Shcherbatov’s unfinished work Journey to the Land of Ophyr. Shcherbatov’s utopia reflects upon his own perception of the Russian history which was based on the myth of historical fracture resulting ... -
„Nejzákeřnější nepřítel je ten, na kterého se zapomíná!“ Krátká analýza albánské komunistické karikatury
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2017)The paper analyses the political and social cartoons in Albania under the Communist regime. Cartoons served as one of the main pillars of propaganda that reflected and publicly presented the political line in different ... -
The Dutch Colonial Presence in the West Indies in the 17th Century: A Historiographical Overview
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2017)This overview summarizes the Dutch presence in the America(s) with special attention focused on the Dutch Caribbean and Suriname, (not exclusively, but with major focus) in the 17th century. The central aim of the text is ... -
Nomádi a usedlíci. Diskuze o „národním charakteru“ mezi osvícenstvím a romantismem
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2016)This study examines, dealing with proto-ethnographic and historiographical texts originated in the 18th and early 19th century, the transformation and displacement of Orientalist discourses on the ‘nomadic national character’ ... -
Od monarchie k republike: Symbolické utváranie verejného priestoru a „nových“ identít na príklade Banskej Bystrice (1918–1922)
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2016)This article explores the issue of symbolic disposition of public space of Banská Bystrica in 1918–1922, describes the representations of the town created by the contemporary press, the attitudes of the local elites towards ... -
Ovlivňování vídeňských Čechů prostřednictvím československých festivit a státních svátků (s těžištěm v prostředí Školského spolku Komenský)
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2016)The present essay does not aim to map in detail the institutional developments within the community of the Viennese Czechs nor does it focus on its social transformation, although it makes use of this broad framework. Its ... -
Antonín Hořejš — neúnavný propagátor nového Slovenska
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2016)During the interwar period Antonín Horejš was an important propagator of modern design in Slovakia. He was the man behind the art magazines Slovenská Grafia (Slovak Graphic Art) and Nová Bratislava (New Bratislava). The ... -
Augusta Rozsypalová a Františka Jakubcová v zápase o zastřešující organizaci katolických žen (devadesátá léta 19. století — první světová válka)
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2017)The article focuses on the way in which social and modernization changes affected the thinking of two remarkable Catholic women. It is about negotiation strategies (for the Union of Catholic Women’s Foundation) pursued by ... -
Svátek práce v Protektorátu Čechy a Morava
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2016)This study deals with celebrations of Labour Day in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Despite the fact that public celebrations of 1 May were forbidden in the Protectorate, it remained a public holiday and attracted ... -
Od (anti)utopistické vize světové války k realitě Velké války z pohledu maďarské literatury
(Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, 2016)This study is devoted to the First World War in Hungarian literature. It mentions the utopian vision (Mór Jókai), works created at the front (Géza Gyóni, Béla Balázs, Józsi Jenö Tersánszky, Zsigmond Móricz), works dedicated ...
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