Karel Čapek (1890-1938) wrote at the time when the travel writing genre gained some of its most prominent artistic and narrative features, and the theme of travel permeated both literature and visual art. He contributed to its unique legacy founded on modernist, cross-generic and cross-artistic experiments not only in his travel writing opus, but also […]

This book presents the contributions offered to Professor Jan Bouzek at the conference “Contacts, Migrations and Climate Change” in honour of his 80th birthday held in May 2015 in Prague. The konference goal was not only to honour his exceptional professional achievements but also to create a broad forum for discussion across the archaeology of […]

The content of the publication is focused around the analysis of social protection within the territory of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during the National Socialist rule. The collection therefore strives to overcome the limits of current historical research. Instead of the present emphasis on “social demagogy” when conceptualizing a social policy whose goal was […]