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Crisis of Empire: The Great Britain during Joseph Chamberlaine at the Turn of 19th and 20th Century
Šotolová, Tereza ; Soukup, Jaromír (advisor) ; Kučera, Tomáš (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the person of Joseph Chamberlain, significant radical politician of the second half of 19th Century and early 20th Century. Main task of this thesis is find out, which events formed his political development from the supporter of free trade to strict protagonist of Tariff Reform and which factors led to the failure to his tariff reform campaign. On the basis of studying especially foreign, british, literature and academic articles, I analysis the topic fixed by this bachelor thesis. The campaign for gain support to tariff reform and economic protectionism was most pronounced at the turn of 19th and 20th Century and caused a dispute in the government and also in ruling coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Unionist. A failure of this campaign was at the end of political career one of the most influental politician of viktorian age. In tariff reform he saw an opportunity how could the government financed advanced social reform and esecially chance to strengthen bounds between colonies and the mother land. He trusted that the economic ties are the most infliental ties of basis imperial federation. Joseph Chamberlain was a radical imperialist and an imperial factor was affected in all his political decisions. His political life takes place in age, when the British...
The other life of BOŽENA NĚMCOVÁ
Šotolová, Tereza ; Hrabáková, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Stejskalová, Anna (referee)
The final dissertation deals with the life story of Božena Němcova permeated with several myths of manifold kinds. A large part of the dissertation is focused on the roots of the Czech writer which is still quite undisclosed. Next two chapters treat of her stay in three locations - in Prague, in the region of Chodsko, and in Slovakia. At first it shows the impact of the stays on the personality of Němcova and on the other hand this part presents the contribution of her personality for the region, her influence on the society, the Czech culture and myths incidental to her stays. The last part surveys writer's deeds provoking the endless interest in the personality and work of Bozena Němcova. Above all it is aimed at the present and the relation of Němcova to the region of her childhood and adolescence.

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