4 results for '"Derek Sayer"'

A sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy—with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorshipPostcards from Absurdistan is a cultural and...

"This book is the third in a trilogy that looks at the cultural history of Prague in order to tell the larger story of competing notions of European modernity-Reformation and Counter-Reformation,...

The story of modernity told through a cultural history of twentieth-century PragueSetting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light,"...

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...