The text deals with a complicated period in German history, namely the creation of a unified state in the 19th century. It discusses the relationship of the church and the state from 1815 till the 1980s and focuses on Bismarck's "Kulturkampf" that flared up after the beginning of German empire. The author presents Birmarck's intentions and the positions of other participants, first of all Catholic and Protestant churches.
The study is devoted to the Anglo-French relations in India during the French Revolution, specifically in the years 1787–1794. The author in the introduction recapitulates historiography devoted to the impacts that the French Revolution had in European territorial possessions in India and the Indian Ocean. It refers to dominantly used to date the French sources stored in the National Archives in Paris, and especially the National Archives of Overseas Territories in Aix-en-Provence. On the basis of this analysis, and referring to sources from the office of Governor-Generals of the Presidency of Fort William in Calcutta untapped until now, he tries to reconstruct the Anglo-French relations in this area. In introduction he describes the political situation in India after the American War of Independence and the genesis of the French Company for India and China, the main partner of the British side in the observed period. On the basis of relevant documents analysis he defines two subsequent phases of mutual Anglo-French relationship: the period of friendship, business partnership and mutual assistance, which the French Revolution only disrupted to a limited extent (1786–1792) and the period of hostility after the French declared war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, which, however, for France in India brought about nothing but loss of important trading colonies (1793–1794).
This study examines the issue of British conservatism in the early 19th century. The author first evaluates the role of the founding figure of British conservatism Edmund Burke, his thinking and influence on the tradition of Conservative political thought and in realpolitik in Britain from the end of the 18th century and in the first half of the following century. This topic is set within the context of British foreign and domestic policy.
The study deals with the previously neglected aspects of interwar history of the Department of History in Brno, namely unsuccessful attempts at habilitation, financial provision, process of building the library, lectures and seminar activities and Ph.D. graduates and theirs dissertation thesis.
The study deals with the events related to the last wave of the Nazi courtmartial hearings in Brno in the other half of April 1945 that meant a death penalty for 20 Czech inhabitants of the city. The text also contains a brief genesis of the Nazi courts during the protectorate, taking into account the court in Brno, and the analysis of the post-war investigation of April executions and the trials with the representatives of the court-martials who were members of the Nazi security machinery in 1945–1947.
The town Bzenec as a residence of the Margrave Prokop of Moravia. This article describes Margrave Prokop's stays in the town Bzenec, the circumstances of document's creation and people from Margrave Prokop's sphere who were connected with the town.
During the state socialist era in the GDR, the People's Republic of Poland and Czechoslovakia, care for the elderly and people in need of help was often provided at home. Volunteers from the national Red Cross societies, the East German organization People's Solidarity or neighborhood helpers from the residential area cared for needy people in the place that determined their reality of life – their own home. The way in which the home shaped social voluntary care for helpers and those in need before and after 1989 will be the subject of this paper. Keywords: care, elderly, home, volunteering, state socialism, German Democratic Republic, People's Republic of Poland, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
The study focuses on "pictorial topographies", i.e. series of vedutas, the creators of which aimed, at least to a certain extent, for topographic accuracy. Based on the works mentioned in Přehled vývoje vlastivědného popisu Čech [The development of homeland studies description of Bohemia] by František Roubík and works mostly published in the last 20 years, the author proposes various ways of classifying the series, which facilitates more accurate historical research. It also examines the transformation in their typology, which was compiled at the turn of the 19th century and was influenced by the Enlightenment and Romanticism.
This article examines the Catholic reception of works published in journals in the first half of the 20th century by Orthodox philosophers, theologians and writers, and explains their importance in Czech culture during this period.
After World War II, the declaration of the independent Jewish state started to be discussed again by the international community. In these days, Czechoslovakia supported the Zionist movement/Israel in new-born organization of United Nations, and also provided an unofficial assistance to the Zionist movement through the arm supplies as well as military training to chosen Jewish volunteers. This cooperation was not immediately cancelled after the February coup in 1948 when the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia got a total dominance over politics of the country. In the long run, however, the communist rule in Czechoslovakia led to the growing tension in relations with Israel. Within next few year the mutual cooperation of both states was over and the mutual relations were close to the open hostility. One of the aims of this paper is to introduce the reasons that led to a shift of Czechoslovak attitude towards Israel, as well as the impact of these changes in the international context.