Předmět Modern Hist. of Central Europe 1781-1914 (HIU / EMODE)

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1. Idea of Central Europe in HistoryIs the area we are going to study the centre of Europe, as its inhabitants like to claim, or a part of a periphery, as the West has generally seen it? Is there a difference between the Czech/Polish/Hungarian idea of central Europe, and German Mitteleuropa? Where the Eastern Europe begins? Is there an East-Central Europe or a Central-Eastern Europe? What are the cultural roots of all these concepts? How did the ethnic, religious, geographic, as well as historic structures and processes contributed to its shaping? And what is the general Czech narrative of its past and present?Required reading:Kundera, The Tragedy of Central EuropeSuggested reading:Larry Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe, Introduction2. Birth of a NationWhat were the intellectual roots of Czech national movement? How did it compare and/or connect with other Central European nations, especially with Germans? What were the local "establishing myths"?Required reading:Herder, On Slav NationsPalacky, History of the Czech Nation in Bohemia and MoraviaSuggested readings:Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism (selected chapters)3. Birth of Policywhat were the main ideas, topics, and peculiarities of Czech political thought? How did they project into the 1848 revolution? How that revolution shaped Czech politics for the future?Required reading:Palacky, Letter to FrankfurtBradley, Czech Pan-Slavism before the First World War4. Into ModernityHow did the modernizing process influence life in Central Europe? What made masses of populace to migrate, either to the cities or to foreign countries? How the cities changed under such pressure? How the identity of the migrants changed over time? How the migration wave fit into the more general concept of "elite drain" that according some observers shaped Czech history both modern and pre-modern?Required reading:Rosicky, Introduction to the History of Czechs in NebraskaHanák, Urbanization and Civilization: Vienna and Budapest in the Nineteenth Century5. Anti-Semitism and GenderHow did gender politics shape central European society in late 19th century? How did it connect with attitudes towards Jews? What attitudes held the Czech populace towards Jewish minority and how these connected with gender?Required reading:Weininger, The Nature of Woman and Her Purpose in the UniverseWeininger, JudaismWein, Blood Libels in Bohemian Lands, in A History of Czechs and Jews6. To War!What it meant for Central Europe to go to war in 1914? How did the Czech populace react? What was the experience of the frontline and the home front? How did it shape postwar society?Required reading:Lein, The "Betrayal" of the k.u.k. Infantry Regiment 28: Truth or Legend?Triska, The Great War's Forgotten Front (selected parts)

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Mgr. Jiří Hutečka, Ph.D.

Vyučující

Mgr. Jiří Hutečka, Ph.D.