Miloslav Rechcigl 
The Czechoslovak Contribution to World Culture [PDF ebook] 

Frontmatter – Table of Contents – Foreword – Preface – Literature and Literary Criticism – Recent Czech Literary History and Criticism – Humanistic and Democratic Thought in Czech Literature – Two Paradoxes of Czech Literary Evolution – One Hundred and Twenty Years of Slovak Literary Language – Czech Opinion of America in the Mid-Nineteenth Century – The Real Legacy of Karel ?apek – ?apek and Communism – The Art of Jan ?ep – Traditions of Czech Literature and the Writer in Exile – Linguistics – The Czech Contribution to Modern Linguistics – Moravian Codification of the First Slavic Literary Language – The Influence of John of Neumarkt – Music and Fine Arts – Music in Czechoslovakia – The Influence of 18th Century Czech Composers on the Development of Classical Music – Czechoslovak Painting from its Beginning until the Second World War – Illuminator Egregius Temporibus Wenceslai IV in Regno Bohemiae Florens – Frank Kupka (1871-1957) – The Contribution of the Sculpture of Czechoslovakia to the World of Art – History – The First Contact of Czechs with Western Civilization: The Mission of St. Amand in the 7th Century – Dynamics of the Spatial Concept of Czechoslovakia : Persistence of Regional Consciousness and Unity over the Span of Thirteen Centuries – The Religion of Hussite Tabor – George of Pod?brady’s Plan for an International Peace League – The Development of Czechoslovak Historical Writing – Jaroslav Goll and his Historical School – The Success of Professor Dvorník’s Research in the Vindication of the Patriarch Photius – Political Science and Philosophy – Background of Czechoslovak Democracy – Political Science in Czechoslovakia – Masaryk and Plato in the 20th Century – Sociology – The Character of Czech Scholarship: A Contribution to the Sociology of Knowledge – The Role of the Intelligentsia in the Development of the Czechoslovak Society – The Development of Sociology in Czechoslovakia before World War II – Anticipated Changes in Czechoslovakia – Economics – Teleological Construction of Economics: Professor Karel Engliš’ Contribution to Economic Thought – Tomáš Bat’a – Pioneer of Self-Government in Industry – Czechoslovak Grain Monopoly System – Economic and Social Structure of Czechoslovak Society between the Two Wars – Problems of Measuring Industrial Output in Czechoslovakia – Law – The Origins and Development of the Study of History of Law in the Territory of Czechoslovakia (1775-1939) – The Czechoslovak Constitutions of 1920, 1948, and 1960 – The Brno School of Jurisprudence – Election Laws and Democratic Government – Some Criminological and Socio-Political Aspects of Czechoslovak Pre-Communist and Communist Legislation on Abortion – Science and Technology – The Purkinje Effect in the Evolution of Scientific Thought – Jind?ich Matiegka and the Anthropometric Approach to the Study of Body Composition – The Czechoslovak Contribution to the Change in Concept of Circulation of the Blood – Prokop Waldfogel of Prague and the 15th Century Printers of the Kingdom of Bohemia – Czechoslovak Engineering until the Second World War – Five Centuries of Czech Geography, Exploration, and Cartography Comments on Major Trends and Present Status – Czechs and Slovaks Abroad – The Present Day Significance of John A. Comenius – Augustine He?man of Bohemia Manor – Aleš Hrdli?ka, Pioneer American Physical Anthropologist – The Czechs in Texas – Czechs and Slovaks in Latin America – Trends in Czech and Slovak Economic Enterprise in the New World – Czech and Slovak Press Outside Czechoslovakia – Early Czech Journalism in the United States – Bibliography – Czechoslovakia and its Arts and Sciences: A Selective Bibliography in the Western European Languages – Contributors to this Volume – Index