The history of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
By: William M. Mahoney
Series: The Greenwood histories of the modern nations
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780313363061; 9780313363054
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Timeline of historical events; title: The Czech Republic and Slovakia today; title: Origins and medieval legacies; title: The late Middle Ages; title: Religious controversies and military conflicts (1400's-1700's); title: Into the modern era : reform, revolution, and national awakening (1740-1914); title: The First World War and the first Czechoslovak Republic (1914-1938); title: The Munich Settlement and the Second World War (1938-1945); title: The postwar era and the communist regime (1945-1989); title: From the velvet revolution and the "velvet divorce" and the two republics (1989-2009); title: Notable people in the history of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.