List of maps and illustrations page ix // Notes on contributors xi // Acknowledgements xv // Editorial note xvi // Names of some towns in Czech and German xvii // Introduction 1 - MIKULÁŠ TEICH // 1 Boiohaemum-Cechy 23 - JIŘÍ SLÁMA // 2 The making of the Czech state: Bohemia and Moravia from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries 39 - ZDENĚK MĚŘÍNSKÝ and JAROSLAV MEZNÍK // 3 Politics and culture under Charles IV 59 - FRANTIŠEK KAVKA // 4 The Hussite movement: an anomaly of European history? 79 - FRANTIŠEK ŠMAHEL // 5 The monarchy of the estates 98 - JOSEF MACEK // 6 Rudolfine culture 117 - JOSEF VÁLKA // 7 The White Mountain as a symbol in modern Czech history 143 - JOSEF PETRÁŇ and LYDIA PETRÁŇOVÁ // 8 The alchemy of happiness: the Enlightenment in the Moravian context 164 // JIŘÍ KROUPA // 9 Problems and paradoxes of the national revival 182 - VLADIMÍR MAGURA // 10 Czech society 1848-1918 198 - (+) OTTO URBAN // 11 The university professors and students in nineteenth-century Bohemia 215 - JAN HAVRÁNEK // 12 Science in a bilingual country 229 - IRENA SEIDLEROVÁ // 13 The rise and fall of a democracy 244 - ROBERT KVAČEK // 14 Ehe Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1945): the economic dimension 267 // ALICE TEICHOVÁ // 15 Czechoslovakia behind the Iron Curtain (1945-1989) 306 - MILAN OTÁHAL // 16 Changes in identity: Germans in Bohemia and Moravia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 324 - JAN KŘEN // 17 Czechs and Jews 344 - HELENA KREJČOVÁ // 18 Czechs and Slovaks in modern history 364 - DUŠAN KOVÁČ // Index 380