A1 Czech History

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Zdeněk Kučera, Pavel Chromý

Wednesday, March 29 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Lecture provides students with basic information on the history and historical geography of Czechia. Throughout the lecture image, identity and heritage of the present country will be discussed in connection to its historical origins and in the context of long-term historical developments in the region of Central Europe. Major phases of the history of Czechia and driving forces of transformations of its historical landscape will be described.

Readings:


Glassheim, E. (2006): Ethnic cleansing, Communism, and environmental devastation in
Czechoslovakia’s Borderlands, 1945–1989. The Journal of Modern History, 78(1): 65–92.


Janík, T., Bičík, I., Kupková, L. (2022): Transformation of Czech cultural landscapes over the past two
centuries: typology based on model areas. Geografie, 127(3): 241–269.


Kučera, Z., Kučerová, S. (2012): Historical geography of persistence, destruction and creation: The
case of rural landscape transformations in Czechiaʼs resettled borderland. Historická geografie, 38(1):
165–184.


Kučerová, S. R., Kučera, Z., Novotná, K. (2018): Formation of a regional image through geography
textbooks: The case of northwest Bohemia. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift–Norwegian Journal of
Geography, 72(3): 176–195.


Magocsi, P. R. (2002): Historical Atlas of Central Europe: A History of East Central Europe, Vol. 1.
University of Washington Press, Seattle.


Pánek, J., Tůma, O. et al. (2009): A History of the Czech Lands. Karolinum, Prague.