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Modern technology and historical method
Sommer, Petr
Contemporary tendency to involve new technologies and methods into the historical research head towards extraordinary enlargement possibility to work on great collections of sources, but it is constantly important to formulize clear research questions and prospective aims.
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The Image of Czechoslovakia in Contemporary English-Language Historiography
Smetana, Vít
This study analyzes the treatment of Czechoslovak history by historians writing in English during the past two decades, with the emphasis on political history as an axis of contemporary history. The author describes historians' approaches to major 20th-century events in Czechoslovakia, evaluating and summarizing their findings. The second part of the study focuses on Czech historiography of contemporary Czechoslovak history and its reception by the international historiographic community. The author emphasizes the need for mutual cooperation regardless of language barriers.
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20th-Century History. Czech, Czechoslovak or Böhmisch?
Kopeček, Michal
This study explores the possibility of alternative approaches to the history of contemporary states formed on national principles. The author assesses the positive and negative aspects of transnational and entangled history and the possible application of such an approach to Czech history, working with the concepts "Czech", "Czechoslovak" and "Böhmisch".
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