Although the lands that were once the Kingdom of Bohemia lie at the heart of Europe, Czechs are usually encountered only in the margins of other people's stories. In this book, Sayer reverses this perspective. He presents a comprehensive history of the Czech people that is also a remarkably original history of modern Europe, told from its uneasy center. 56 illustrations. 3 maps.
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Although the lands that were once the Kingdom of Bohemia lie at the heart of Europe, Czechs are usually encountered only in the margins of other people's stories. In this book, Sayer reverses this perspective. He presents a comprehensive history of the Czech people that is also a remarkably original history of modern Europe, told from its uneasy center. 56 illustrations. 3 maps.
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Add this copy of The Coasts of Bohemia: a Czech History to cart. $3.98, fair condition, Sold by Goodwill of Greater Milwaukee rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Milwaukee, WI, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Princeton University Press.
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Very good(+) in very good(+) jacket. Translations from the Czech by Alena Sayer. Illustrated in black and white. xv, 442 pages. 8vo, tan cloth, d.w. (spine sunned, some minor edgewear). Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1998). Two pages with minor inking and dogearred, otherwise fine. A very good(+) copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 850grams, ISBN: 0691057605.
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Good jacket. Princeton. 1998. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Faded Dustjacket. 0691057605. 443 pages. hardcover. Cover design by Frank Mahood. keywords: History Art Bohemia Czech. DESCRIPTION-In The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare gave the landlocked country of Bohemia a coastline-a famous and, to Czechs, typical example of foreigners' ignorance of the Czech homeland. Although the lands that were once the Kingdom of Bohemia lie at the heart of Europe, Czechs are usually encountered only in the margins of other people's stories. In The Coasts of Bohemia, Derek Sayer reverses this perspective. He presents a comprehensive and long-needed history of the Czech people that is also a remarkably original history of modern Europe, told from its uneasy center. Sayer shows that Bohemia has long been a theater of European conflict. It has been a cradle of Protestantism and a bulwark of the Counter-Reformation; an Austrian imperial province and a proudly Slavic national state; the most easterly democracy in Europe; and a westerly outlier of the Soviet bloc. The complexities of its location have given rise to profound (and often profoundly comic) reflections on the modern condition. Franz Kafka, Jaroslav HaSek, Karel Capek and Milan Kundera are all products of its spirit of place. Sayer describes how Bohemia's ambiguities and contradictions are those of Europe itself, and he considers the ironies of viewing Europe, the West, and modernity from the vantage point of a country that has been too often ignored. The Coasts of Bohemia draws on an enormous array of literary, musical, visual, and documentary sources ranging from banknotes to statues, museum displays to school textbooks, funeral orations to operatic stage-sets, murals in subway stations to censors' indexes of banned books. It brings us into intimate contact with the ever changing details of daily life-the street names and facades of buildings, the heroes figured on postage stamps-that have created and recreated a sense of what it is to be Czech. Sayer's sustained concern with questions of identity, memory, and power place the book at the heart of contemporary intellectual debate. It is an extraordinary story, beautifully told. inventory #15487.
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Very Good in Near Fine jacket. Book 443 pp, notes, sources, index, b/w illustrations, 8vao, tan cloth. Small library stamp title page, no other marks, very good+; dust jacket no marks, near fine.
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