Prague Panoramas : National Memory and Sacred Space in the Twentieth Century.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Language -- Introduction: Prague-Panoramas of History -- Chapter 1: Preserving the National Past for the Future -- Chapter 2: Art Meets Politics -- Chapter 3: Generational Approaches to National Monuments -- Chapter 4: World War I and the Jan Hus Jubilee -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 5: Toppling Columns, Building a Capital -- Chapter 6: Catholic Czech Nationalism in the Early 1920s -- Chapter 7: Religious Heroes for a Secular State -- Chapter 8: Modern Churches, Living Cathedrals -- Chapter 9: National Heroes and Nazi Rule -- Chapter 10: God's Warriors on Vítkov Hill -- Chapter 11: Rebuilding Bethlehem Chapel -- Chapter 12: Old Symbols Oppose the New Regime -- Chapter 13: Religious and National Symbols in Post-Communist Prague -- Epilogue-New Times, New Monuments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Examines the creation of symbols of Czech national identity in the public spaces of the city during the twentieth century. These "sites of memory" were attempts to form a cohesive sense of self for a country and a people torn by war, foreign occupation, and internal strife.

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