TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paces,Cynthia
TI  - Prague Panoramas: National Memory and Sacred Space in the Twentieth Century
T2  - Russian and East European Studies
SN  - 9780822977674
AV  - DB2632 
U1  - 363.6/909437120904 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - PIttsburgh
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - National monuments-Czech Republic-Prague-History-20th century
KW  - Sacred space-Czech Republic-Prague-History-20th century
KW  - Church buildings-Czech Republic-Prague-History-20th century
KW  - Collective memory-Czech Republic-Prague-History-20th century
KW  - Nationalism-Czech Republic-Prague-History-20th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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