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Meeting the Other in the New World: Jesuit Missionaries from the Bohemian Province in America
Článek v periodiku
Date Issued: 2017
Abstract: 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 ...
The Dutch Colonial Presence in the West Indies in the 17th Century: A Historiographical Overview
Článek v periodiku
Date Issued: 2017
Abstract: 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 ...
New Horizons from Prague to Bucharest: Ethnonational Stereotypes and Regionalist Self-Perceptions in Interwar Slovakia and Transylvania
Článek v periodiku
Date Issued: 2017
Abstract: The paper outlines how the portrayal of “us” and “them” changed during the interwar period in the relational web from Prague to Bucharest. The collapse of the Monarchy had shaken some of the foundations of national ...
Augusta Rozsypalová a Františka Jakubcová v zápase o zastřešující organizaci katolických žen (devadesátá léta 19. století — první světová válka)
Augusta Rozsypalová and Františka Jakubcová in the struggle for an umbrella organisation of catholic women (1890 - WWI)
Článek v periodiku
Date Issued: 2017
Abstract: 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 ...
Hledání ideálního státu. Cesta do Ofírské země M. M. Ščerbatova mezi historickým mýtem a utopií
Looking for an ideal state. Journey to the land of Ophyr by M. M. Shcherbatov between historical myth and utopia
Článek v periodiku
Date Issued: 2017
Abstract: 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
Článek v periodiku
Date Issued: 2017
Abstract: 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 ...
Historiografie hladomoru na Ukrajině v letech 1932–1933. Odraz ukrajinské tragédie v sovětské a západní historiografii v době studené války jako zdroj pro porozumění kontroverzní diskusi o hladomoru v současné historické debatě
Historiography of the famine in Ukraine in 1923-1933. Reflections of the Ukrainian tragedy in the Soviet and Western historiography in times of Cold War as a source for an understanding of the controversial discussion about famine in current historical debate.
Článek v periodiku
Date Issued: 2017
Abstract: The subject matter of this study is an effort to understand how the research on famine in the Western and Eastern milieu in times of the Cold War has influenced the current debate as the topic of famine has become part of ...
Understanding Russia? Helping Ukraine? Poles and Germans on the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict
Článek v periodiku
Date Issued: 2017
Abstract: 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 ...
Robert Knox, transcendentální anatomie a imaginace rasové války
Robert Knox, transcendental anatomy and imagination of racial war
Článek v periodiku
Date Issued: 2017
Abstract: 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 ...
A Structural Assessment of the U.S. Counterespionage Vis-à-vis Chinese Espionage Effort
Článek v periodiku
Date Issued: 2017
Abstract: 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 ...