ISBN: HB: 9788024637945,
Karolinum Press,
December 2018
224 pp.,
27.9x24.1 cm, 40 colour plates, 116 maps, 4 tables
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic!
"The Atlas of Religions in Czechia" represents the first comprehensive geographical analysis of the religious landscape of Czechia and its transformation since the fall of communism in 198...
ISBN: PB: 9788024622279,
Karolinum Press,
November 2018
650 pp.,
24x16.5 cm, 80 halftones, 23 colour maps, 8 tables
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic!
Born January 1, 1993 after the split with Slovakia, the Czech Republic is one of the youngest members of the European Union. Despite its youth, this new state and the areas just outside it...
ISBN: PB: 9788024632933,
Karolinum Press,
November 2018
300 pp.,
20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic!
The first installment in Karolinum's new Vaclav Havel Series – which aims to continue the philosophical discourse of that thinker, playwright, dissident, and president – this book asks whe...
ISBN: PB: 9788024637006,
Karolinum Press,
November 2018
160 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic!
In "Fragmented Lives", Gulag survivor Jacques Rossi opens a window onto everyday life inside the notorious Soviet prison camp through a series of portraits of inmates and camp personnel ac...
ISBN: PB: 9788024638515,
Karolinum Press,
October 2018
350 pp.,
20.3x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 35 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic!
Every five years from 1955 to 1985, mass Czechoslovak gymnastic demonstrations and sporting parades called Spartakiads were held to mark the 1945 liberation of Czechoslovakia. Featuring h...
ISBN: PB: 9788024638799,
Karolinum Press,
October 2018
300 pp.,
20.3x12.7 cm, 25 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic!
In this book, Milos Pojar traces the development and transformation of the opinions about Jews and Judaism of the first Czechoslovak president, T. G. Masaryk. Pojar describes the key event...
ISBN: PB: 9788024635804,
Karolinum Press,
September 2018
350 pp.,
20.3x12.7 cm, 20 halftones, 3 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic!
An outspoken opponent of pro-Russian, authoritarian, and far-right streams in contemporary Czech society, Martin C. Putna received a great deal of media attention when he ironically dedica...
ISBN: PB: 9788024635903,
Karolinum Press,
May 2018
180 pp.,
20.3x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic!
Following the so-called "Material Turn" of historiography, this book explores the materialization of identity in urban space – specifically in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Urban spaces...
ISBN: PB: 9788024634401,
Karolinum Press,
May 2018
125 pp.,
19x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic!
For "The Pied Piper", Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon legend of the villainous, pipe-playing rat-catcher. Dyk uses the tale as a loose frame for hi...
ISBN: PB: 9788024637013,
Karolinum Press,
May 2018
350 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic!
During World War II, London experienced not just the Blitz and the arrival of continental refugees, but also an influx of displaced foreign governments. Drawing together renowned historian...