Literature

Recommended literature

Sociology

  • MARX, Karl a Friedrich ENGELS. Capital. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, c1952. Great books of the western world. (Communist Manifesto)
  • WEBER, Max. The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, c1958. Lyceum editions.
  • ANDERSON, Benedict R. O'G. Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Rev. and extended ed. London: Verso, 1991.
  • BENNETT, Tony. The birth of the museum: history, theory, politics. London: Routledge, c1995. Culture: policies and politics.
  • HALL, Tim, Phil. HUBBARD a John R. SHORT. The SAGE companion to the city. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, 2008.
  • RABINOW, Paul. French modern: norms and forms of the social environment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
  • HALBWACHS, Maurice a Lewis A. COSER. On collective memory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. The Heritage of sociology.
  • ADAMS, Julia, Elisabeth Stephanie CLEMENS a Ann Shola ORLOFF. Remaking modernity: politics, history, and sociology. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. Politics, history, and culture.
  • ERLL, Astrid a Ansgar NÜNNING. A companion to cultural memory studies. Berlin: De Gruyter, c2010.
  • HOLÝ, Ladislav. The little Czech and the great Czech nation: national identity and the post-communist transformation of society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • WAGNER, Peter. A sociology of modernity: liberty and discipline. London: Routledge, 1994.
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison. Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1979.
  • SAYER, Derek. Prague, capital of the twentieth century: a surrealist history. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.
  • GIDDENS, Anthony. The consequences of modernity. Cambridge: Polity press, 1990.
  • ALEXANDER, Jeffrey C. Trauma: a social theory. Cambridge, UK: Polity, c2012.
  • LIÉGEOIS, Jean-Pierre. Roma, gypsies, travellers. Strasbourg: Council of Europe press, 1994.
  • CLIFFORD, James. The predicament of culture: twentieth-century ethnography, literature, and art. 8th print. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.

History

  • Lonnie R Johnson. Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends. Third Edition. Oxford: University Press, 2011.
  • Spiel, Hilda. Vienna's Golden Autumn, 1866-1938. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
  • Dent, Bob. Budapest: A Cultural and Literary History. Oxford: Signal Books, 2007.
  • Berend, Iván, T. Decades of crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II. University of California Press, 2001.
  • Berend, Iván, T. History Derailed. Central and Eastern Europe in the long nineteenth century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
  • Berend, T – Ránki, György. East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1977.
  • Wingfield, Nancy M. Creating the other. Ethnic conflict and nationalism in Habsburg Central Europe. New York: Berghahn Books, 2003.
  • Inglot, Tomasz. Welfare states in East Central Europe, 1919-2004. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • Bideleux, Robert – Jeffries, Ian. A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change. Routledge, 2007.
  • Davis, Norman. Europe: a History. Harper, Perennial, 1998.
  • Johnson, Lonnie. Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends. Oxford University Press, 1996.
  • Magosci, Paul, R. Historical Atlas of Central Europe. University of Washington Press, 2002.
  • Evans, R. J. W. (ed.). The Revolutions in Europe 1848–1849. From Reform to Reaction. Oxford, 2000.
  • Okey, Robin. The Habsburg Monarchy c. 1876–1918: From Enlightenment to Eclipse. London: Macmillan Press LTD, 2001.
  • Macmillan, Margareth.Peacemakers. Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War, 2001.
  • Joll, James – Martel, Gordon. The Origins of the First World War. Pearson Education, 2007.
  • Voráček, Emil – Němeček, Jan. The disintegration of Czechoslovakia in the end of 1930s, policy in the Central Europe. Prague: Institute of History, 2009.
  • Frucht, Richard (ed.). Eastern Europe: an introduction to the people, lands and culture. ABC- Clio, Inc. Santa Barbara, USA, 2005.
  • Tuma, Oldrich – Jindra, Jiri (eds.). Czechoslovakia and Romania in the Versailles System. Prague, 2006.
  • Lukes, Igor. Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler: The Diplomacy of Edvard Beneš in the 1930s. New York, 1996.
  • Lukes, Igor – Golstein, Erich (eds.). The Munich Crisis, 1938: Prelude to WWII. London, 1999.
  • Houžvička, Václav. Czechs and Germans 1848-2004: the Sudeten question and the transformation of Central Europe. Prague: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press, 2015.
  • Pánek, Jaroslav – Tůma, Oldřich and Janeček, Martin. A history of the Czech Lands. 1st English ed. Prague: Karolinum, 2009.

Architecture

  • Zatloukal, Pavel. A guide to the architecture of Brno, 1815-1915. Brno: Obecní dům, 2006.
  • For new Brno: the architecture of Brno, 1919-1939 : catalogue . Brno: Muzeum města Brna, 2000.
  • Toman, Rolf. Vienna: art and architecture. Königswinter: H.F. Ullmann, 2008.
  • Švácha, Rostislav. The architecture of New Prague, 1895-1945. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995.
  • Wittlich, Petr. Art-Nouveau Prague: forms of the style. 1st ed. in English. Prague: Karolinum, 2007.
  • Švácha, Rostislav. The pyramid, the prism & the arc: Czech cubist architecture 1911-1923. Prague: Gallery, 2000.
  • Hnídková, Vendula - Vybíral, Jindřich. Národní styl, kultura a politika. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová, 2013.

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