CONTENTS
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
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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
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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
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