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Prague panoramas : national memory and sacred space in the twentieth century /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paces, Cynthia
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2009]
Series:Series in Russian and East European studies.
Subjects:
National monuments > Czech Republic > Prague > History > 20th century.
Sacred space > Czech Republic > Prague > History > 20th century.
Church buildings > Czech Republic > Prague > History > 20th century.
Collective memory > Czech Republic > Prague > History > 20th century.
Nationalism > Czech Republic > Prague > History > 20th century.
Political culture > Czech Republic > Prague > History > 20th century.
Historic preservation > Czech Republic > Prague > History > 20th century.
Prague (Czech Republic) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Prague (Czech Republic) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Prague (Czech Republic) > Religion > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Prague : panoramas of history
  • Preserving the national past for the future
  • Art meets politics
  • Generational approaches to national monuments
  • World War I and the Jan Hus Jubilee
  • Toppling columns, building a capital
  • Catholic Czech nationalism in the early 1920s
  • Religious heroes for a secular state
  • Modern churches, living cathedrals
  • National heroes and Nazi rule
  • God's warriors on Vítkov Hill
  • Rebuilding Bethlehem Chapel
  • Old symbols to oppose the new regime
  • Religious and national symbols in post-communist Prague
  • Epilogue: New times, new monuments.