Foreword (Petr Vorei) 7 // Introduction 11 // I. Organisational foundations for activities of historians at the turn of the millennium // Open university: Charles University and its foreign relations 19 // Global network of Charles University 19 // Annex 1 : Foundations for building of Charles University’s global network 26 // Annex 2: Contractual partners of Charles University 34 // Contacts of Charles University with foreign partners 40 // Institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences: The Institute of History 127 // Transformations of the Institute of History 127 // Annex: We also have shared responsibility for science // (Polemic with Prime Minister Jan Fischer) 167 // National professional organisation: The Association of Historians of the Czech Republic 171 // Between the Historical Club and the Association of Historians ( 1996-1997) 171 // The Association of Historians at the end of the millennium (1996-1999) 178 // The Association of Historians on the threshold of the 21st century ( 1999-2001 ) 183 // The Association of Historians at the turn of the millennium ( 1996-2002) 189 // Foreign research base: The Czech Historical Institute in Rome 199 // The Czech Historical Institute in Rome on the current of a two-hundred-year-old research tradition 199 // Annex 1: From public lectures in Rome: Regional - National - European. Spontaneous Europeanism and intra-European conflicts in the 16th century and today 235 // Annex 2: Proposal for building of a monument to Karel Capek in Rome 248 // Core periodical of the field: The Czech Historical Review 251 // Rebirth of The Czech Historical Review (Ceský casopis historický) 251 // National historical community: Mutual information 271 // The Lexicon of contemporary Czech historians 271 // Researchers around the world: Connection with the Czech environment 277 // Bio-bibliographic lexicon of foreign historians focusing on Czech studies 277 //
Historical encyclopaedic studies: The Academic Encyclopaedia of the Czech History 287 // Historical Encyclopedias (Current research results - an outline of typology perspectives) 287 // Historical biographic studies: Biographic Dictionary of the Czech Lands 313 // Czech biographic dictionaries 313 // Outline of the history of the Czech Lands: Manual for foreign countries 321 // Introduction to the History of the Czech Lands 321 // History in school: About its respectable place in training and education 325 // Teaching of history as a theme for discussion of the Senate of the Parliament // of the Czech Republic 325 // Standpoint of the Association of Historians of the Czech Republic // to the Outline Education Programme 327 // II. Disputes about history // Czech historical science and Czech historical consciousness 331 // Annex: A caricature for sure, but hate? (Polemic with Zbynek Zeman) 344 // Historiography, historical consciousness and responsibility 347 // Current reinterpretations of the Czech history 359 // Historicising journalism as an instrument of (in)tolerance in current Czech-German relations 369 // Annex: About the superfluous nature of strong words // (Polemic with Emanuel Mandler) 373 // Historians against the Abuse of history 375 // National and religious minorities in the thousand years of history // of the Czech Lands 385 // A reinterpretation of the historic role of John Huss as a path // to understanding 397 // III. International contexts of Czech historiography // Czech historiography and the world 415 // Czech history in current foreign historiography 437 // Czech participation at international congresses of historical sciences in the years 1990-2005 465 // The first historical congress without tension between East and West (Madrid 1990) 487 // Two millennial global congresses of historians (Oslo and Tampere 2000) 491 //
First world congress of historians in the southern hemisphere (Sydney 2005) 499 // Entry to global history (Jinan 2015) 505 // IV. Evaluation of the Humanities // Humanities as a bridge between national identity and global openness 523 // International publication practice in the field of historical sciences 531 // Central and regional historical magazines in the European context 539 // Excursus: Local history and regional historical magazines 548 // Humanities in the Czech Republic in the years 1990-2010 553 // Historiography and historical bibliography 571 // Czech historical Slavonic studies in the context of the Humanities 581 // V. Europe at the crossroads // „In Europe we are all in the same boat“ (Europe at the crossroads between the past and the future) 599 // Between the past and the future of our homeland: A brief deliberation // on Europe 607 // Europe at a Crossroads 615 // An academic discussion about migration without emotion and political correctness 627 // The European migration crisis and its historical roots 635 // VI. Historians between Science and Science Policy (Summary) 651 // Illustrations 655 // Acknowledgement 673 // Abbreviations 675 // Indexes 681 // Index of Persons 683 // Index of Geographical Terms 707 // Contents (in Czech) 723 // Contents (in English) 727