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