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Egypt in the years of British patronage, 1882-1899. The contribution to the history of British emipre in the 19th century
Valkoun, Jaroslav ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Skřivan, Aleš (referee)
Primarily, Great Britain occupied Egypt due to strategic and defence reasons (a route to India) in 1882; commercial and financial interests appeared secondary. At first the British Government again and again alleged that soldiers would leave as soon as they would establish the order and tranquillity and would renew the authority of the Khedive. Her Majesty's Government repeated this allegation more then sixty times until the WWI broke out. Between the years 1882 and 1914 Egypt was neither a colony nor protectorate de iure, nevertheless the British Consul-General in Cairo administrated the country in a de facto colonial way; the Khedive symbolised only the formal Head of State. During the ensuing decades, the British realised economic, politic, and administrative reforms. Improvement of irrigation system meant the greatest achievement. In the nineties, the reorganization of the Egyptian Administration caused the rise of the nationalist movement, which in 1906 culminated in Dinshaway Incident that forced the well-known proconsul Lord Cromer to leave Egypt. The Sudan always influenced Egyptian events. In 1885 the Mahdi and his followers conquered Khartoum and the rest of the Sudanese territory. Thirteen years later the Mahdists were routed by the British-Egyptian army at the Battle of Omdurman and than both...
Bosnian crisis 1908-1909
Kodet, Roman ; Skřivan, Aleš (advisor) ; Kovář, Martin (referee)
The Bosnian crisis is one of the most important milestones on the way to the First World War. It is because this act of Austria-Hungary totaly destroyed a chance to create a Austro-Russian rapprochement on the Balkans. From this crisis the rivalry between these two empires fully started and it was this rivalry, which caused the collapse ofEuropean diplomatic system in July 1914. The aim ofthis work is to analyze all the circumstances and conditions, which influenced the decision of Vienna to take this action and how and why this action ruined the long termed policy of Austro-Russian entente.
The immigration to Great Britain in 1945-1971. The contribution to the history of the "island state" in the 20th century
Simonová, Michaela ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Soukup, Martin (referee)
Britain is the country with a long tradition of immigration. Over many years it witnessed the arrival of immigrants and refugees from the whole world. Nevertheless the unprecedented extent of immigration from the Commonwealth countries of the former British Empire after the Second World War was unexpected. It caused profound and irreversible change in the British society as a whole. This thesis deals with a description and interpretation of a series of key issuees related to immigration from New Commonwealth (especially from Indian subcontinent) in 1945-1971. Main reasons for "coloured immigration" were an increasing demand for low skilled and unskilled labour in United Kingdom and the 1948 British Nationality Act, which gave Commonwealth citizens right to enter, work and settle in the British Isles. I am concerned with issues of immigrants' employment, housing, education as well as with the attitudes and responses of indigenous whites. Even though the British consider themselves to be "tolerant people" immigrants faced up to prejudices, discrimination, racism, verbal abuse and physical attacks in Britain. White hostility toward coloured immigrants manifested itself in the form of the Notting Hill Riots in 1958. Racial attacks were explained in terms of the enormous number of "coloured" people and the...
Reversal of alliances. Presidential elections in the USA in 1960-1972
Dundek, Petr ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
States of America, spent thirteen and half years in the White House. He served eight years (1953-1961) as a vice president of president Dwight D. Eisenhower and then four and half years (1969-74) as a president. But there were eight years between these periods, because he lost the presidential election of 1960 to senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy. The democratic candidate won with one of the smallest margin in the history of American presidential elections. The democratic head of the state was assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, Texas. His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, realized all off Kennedy's intentions, which his predecessor couldn't enforce because of the great opposition in the Congress of the United States. But Johnson had (compared to Kennedy) two benefits. He spent six years ( 1955-61) as a leader of majority in the Senate and he was the most successful man, which has ever held this office. Because of this fact Johnson had a lot of experiences with negotiations with the senators and representatives. The second reason was the shock from death of Kennedy, which maintained Johnson' s position. What sets oť acts were conťirmed in this time? At the first place we have to mention the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which extended the civil rights, especially for the black people (mainly in the south)....
The attitude of the conservative Baldwin government towards the attempts to create the system of collective security in the 1920s
Novotný, Lukáš ; Skřivan, Aleš (advisor) ; Kovář, Martin (referee) ; Moravcová, Dagmar (referee)
The postwar Europe was in a complicated position. It was necessary to create a system of a collective security to prevent events similar to the previous war after a period of terror. After a rejection of the United States of America to join the League of Nations, which would provide a functioning of a new order, Great Britain took over a role of the most important subject in creating of a new security system. The Stanley Baldwin Conservative government held a decisive role during negotiations about two essential concepts of the system of collective security (the Geneva Protocol, the Rhineland Pact) in the first half of the 1920s. The Cabinet primarily refused to ratify a document, on which participated a previous Labour government. It had several reasons: unlimited obligations, compulsory arbitration or automatic sanctions. The Rhineland Pact from October 1925 meant a victory of the socalled moderates within the Conservative Party. It refused both a return to the policy of the splendid isolation and an idea of an exclusion of Germany from international relations. The agreement also embodied an idea, which meant the only possible solution on a field of the collective security for Conservatives - an idea of separate treaties that would include limited obligations of Western Europe only. The result of the...
Reflections of social and political conditions of late Tudor and early Stuart England in the work of William Shakespeare
Zemanová, Michaela ; Skřivan, Aleš (referee) ; Kovář, Martin (advisor)
The aim of the dissertation was understanding and explaining historical plays of the most famous Elizabethan dramatists - namely William Shakespeare - in the context of the time the plays originated. Shakespeare's historical plays were the main source. Works of Elizabethan and early Jacobite dramatists were influenced by political, economical and religious changes in England of that time. Elizabethan writers were to celebrate and in some way legitimize the dynasty of the Tudors. The right of grandfather of Elizabeth II to English throne was quite problematic from some point of view. In his historical plays William Shakespeare also celebrated English history and he tried to created a picture of an "ideal ruler". First of all, his "Richard III" helped to make a portrait of Henry VII "who saved England from tyrannical rule of Richard III". So Shakespeare legitimized coming of dynasty of the Tudors. Shakespeare's interpretation of the "biggest villain" of English history influenced further generations of writers and historians. On the base of psychological development of historical figures which are complemented by peculiar characters from lower class Shakespeare uncovered religious and political problems of his time and relations between different social classes.
Character and significance of discovery voyages in the era of Elizabeth I
Marková, Veronika ; Kovář, Martin (referee) ; Skřivan, Aleš (advisor)
The English Queen Elizabeth I supported naval exploration. English voyages overseas differed in character according to their destinations. At first, voyages northward had been pure voyages of discovery aimed at finding a northwest passage. Only later on, they also became voyages of colonization. The closer the English colonists approached Florida, which was under Spanish rule, the more danger they faced. Voyages southward had always been voyages of piracy as South America belonged to the Portuguese and Spanish spheres of influence. The character of English naval voyages was also determined by the geographical location of the British Isles. For the English, finding a northwest or a northeast passage would have been very profitable. In the forty years of the reign of Elizabeth I, England evolved into a naval power that could challenge Spanish and Portuguese domination in the New World.
Fall of the German empire and some aspects of the social-cultural development of Weimar Republic on the pages of selected memoir literature
Bříza, Aleš ; Kovář, Martin (referee) ; Tajovský, Ladislav (referee)
Český akademický svět doposud práci, která by komplexně a ve všech aspektech rozkryla (rozkrývala) složitost německých dějin daného období, postrádá; přitom je ale nutno právě v něm hledat příčiny pozdějšího ztroskotání prvního vážně zamýšleného pokusu o demokratické zřízení v nové německé republice. Rok 1918 znamenal mezník v politických, hospodářských a sociálních dějinách Německa. Pro oblast kulturních dějin to neplatí až tak doslova (viz v první kapitole Předmět práce a úvod do teorie memoárové literatury); ty podléhají jiným vlivům, jsou doménou pouze omezené skupinky lidí, kteří jako nositelé určité tradice, mající hluboké kořeny v minulých dobách, zajišťují kontinuitu mezi minulým, přítomným a budoucím a do jisté míry mohou pomáhat zmírnit sociální, hospodářské a politické otřesy. Pojem "na stránkách vybrané memoárové literatury" neznamená, že bych došel kjiným závěrúm, než jaké je možné najít v seriozní odborné literatuře. Jedná se spíše o metodologický problém; moje analýza vybraných událostí vychází ze zápisú memoárového charakteru, jejichž zastoupení je zde v obráceném poměru, tj. převládá nad odbornou literaturou. Úkolem historické vědy však je hledat nové relevantní postupy, metody a rozšiřovat pramennou základnu.
To the question of the French arms export to China, 1919-1929
Pšenka, Lubomír ; Kovář, Martin (referee) ; Skřivan, Aleš (advisor)
V první polovině 20. století procházela Čína velmi nesnadným obdobím. Revoluce roku 1911 neodstranila vleklou vnitřní krizi a spíše než aby zemi sjednotila, umocnila její prohlubující se dezintegraci. Jednotlivé čínské provincie se stávaly doménami vojenských vládců - militaristů, jejichž kliky mezi sebou soupeřily o moc a to prostředky politickými, ale především vojenskými. Tento rozvrat zasáhl také zájmy velmocí, které v průběhu 19. století získaly od císařské vlády řadu privilegií podpisem tzv. nerovnoprávných smluv. V průběhu první světové války byly západní velmoci nuceny věnovat téměř veškerou svou pozornost a prostředky evropskému bojišti, což dočasně oslabilo jejich pozice v Číně. Zmírnění tlaku západních velmocí tlaku přineslo Japonsku nebývalou příležitost k velmi výraznému posílení jeho vlivu v Číně. Západní velmoci tak byly konfrontovány s dvojí nepříjemnou realitou neklidné čínské vnitropolitické situace a mocné japonské expanze, přičemž tyto dva problémy byly do značné míry vzájemně propojené. Především rozháranost vnitřních poměrů v Číně umožňovala Japoncům prosazovat jejich požadavky a tyto japonské zásahy pak zpětně působily rozkladně na vnitřní čínskou situaci. Oba tyto problémy se západní velmoci, především Velká Británie a Spojené státy americké, pokusily řešit tak, že se pokusily Čínu...
Soviet-American relations between détente and the Polish crisis (1977-1981)
Jahoda, Martin ; Kovář, Martin (referee) ; Horčička, Václav (advisor)
This study engage in Soviet - American relations during the Carter's presidency and the first year of Reagan's period. The object of this study was to find reasons and subsequences of events of that time. The autor engage in the Carter's policy of human rights, the normalization of US - Chinese relations, the second round of Strategic arms limitation talks (SALT II), Soviet - American rivalry in the Third world, the problems of intermediate nuclear forces, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Polish crisis. The autor reach the conclusion, that so-called the second cold war began already during the Carter's presidency and that Jimmy Carter wasn't as weak leader as some authors write. Other conlusion is, for example, that the Soviet Union wasn't able to carry out the invasion of Poland, because SSSR of that time was already too weak to fight simultaneously in Afghanistan and Poland.

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