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Author Paces, Cynthia, author.

Title Prague panoramas : national memory and sacred space in the twentieth century / Cynthia Paces
Published Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations, photographs, maps
Series Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies
Series in Russian and East European studies
Contents Prague: panoramas of history -- Preserving the national past for the future -- Art meets politics -- Generational approaches to national monuments -- World War I and the Jan Hus Jubilee -- Toppling columns, building a capital -- Catholic Czech nationalism in the early 1920s -- Religious heroes for a secular state -- Modern churches, living cathedrals -- National heroes and Nazi rule -- God's warriors on Vítkov Hill -- Rebuilding Bethlehem Chapel -- Old symbols to oppose the new regime -- Religious and national symbols in post-Communist Prague -- Epilogue: new times, new monuments
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject National monuments -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History -- 20th century
Sacred space -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History -- 20th century
Church buildings -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History -- 20th century
Collective memory -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History -- 20th century
Nationalism -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
HISTORY -- General.
Church buildings
Collective memory
National monuments
Nationalism
Sacred space
Czech Republic -- Prague
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009014286
ISBN 9780822977674
0822977672
0822943751
9780822943754