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Title: Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes from the Life of a European City by Peter Demetz ISBN: 0-8090-1609-5 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A comprehensive piece on Czech people and history
Comment: I have just returned from my first trip Prague and Ostrava. The history of the region is a bit confusing to us who are not familiar with this part of the world. This is an important part of the world, after all the genesis of the First World War is connected to the Bohemian Prince who was also a successor to the Habsburg throne.
Professor Demetz provides a comprehensive background to the history of the country, the intrigues and policitical fights that went on this part of the world. He provides a lively discussion of a serious subject. Prague went through a great number of battles and the people here were well involved with many events that rocked the European politics and religion.
Demetz is from Prague where he grew up and was a victim of anti-semitic tide that swept across Europe. This makes his story so human. This is not a dispassionate history book. I recommend this book to you, if are interested to know a bit more about the Czech republic and its people.
Rating: 3
Summary: Informative in Parts, But a Bit Dense
Comment: As with some of the other reviewers, I am glad I read this AFTER I visited Prague. It is best not read cover to cover, but use the index to read about the things you want to learn more about. Otherwise, you will be overwhelmed by personal names and places in a language most of us are unaccustomed to. Don't lie to me & tell me you will remember it all! (smile). (Unless you are an expert in Slavic languages).
Rating: 2
Summary: Pretentious history
Comment: To write a history text which is so broad in definition but so inaccessible to the casual reader makes this a pretentious read. As a historian, there is much that is up for debate in his first three chapters - and that is not always clear. And some of his points, (eg. that the root of Slav is from the word "sklavenoi", meaning slave) has long been out of vogue among Slavic historians. Parts are fun to read, but I believe the greatness of the text is hyperbolic.
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Title: Prague: A Traveler's Literary Companion by Paul Wilson ISBN: 1883513014 Publisher: Whereabouts Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History by Derek Sayer ISBN: 069105052X Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 28 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Prague: A Cultural and Literary History by Richard Burton ISBN: 1566564905 Publisher: Interlink Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Spirit of Prague and Other Essays by Ivan Klima, Paul Wilson ISBN: 0964561123 Publisher: Granta (NY) Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture by John Lukacs ISBN: 0802132502 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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