Essays on the history of the Czech lands from the ninth century to the fall of socialism in 1989.

Introduction Mikulás Teich; 1. Boiohaemum - Cechy Jirí Sláma; 2. The making of the Czech state: Bohemia and Moravia from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries Jaroslav Mezník and Zdenek Merínsky; 3. Politics and culture under Charles IV Frantisek Kavka; 4. The Hussite movement: an anomaly of European history? Frantisek Smahel; 5. The monarchy of the estates Josef Macek; 6. Rudolfine culture Josef Válka; 7. The White Mountain as a symbol in modern Czech history Josef Petrán and Lydia Petránová; 8. The alchemy of happiness: the Enlightenment in the Moravian context Jirí Kroupa; 9. Problems and paradoxes of the national revival Vladimír Macura; 10. Czech society 1848-1918 Otto Urban; 11. The university professors and students in nineteenth-century Bohemia Jan Havránek; 12. Science in a bilingual country Irena Seidlerová; 13. The rise and fall of a democracy Robert Kvacek; 14. The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-45): the economic dimension Alice Teichova; 15. Czechoslovakia behind the Iron Curtain (1945-89) Milan Otáhal; 16. Changes in identity: Germans in Bohemia and Moravia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Jan Kren; 17. Czechs and Jews Helena Krejcová 18. Czechs and Slovaks in modern history Dusan Kovác.