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Every year Prague attracts thousands of enthusiastic visitors with its Old World charms. For a millennium this beautiful city in the heart of Central Europe, with its ancient townships set on hills and in valleys overlooking a strategic river, has been at the core of everything both wonderful and terrible in Western history. Prague in Black and Gold strips away the sentimental distortions in a brilliant account that clarifies Prague's true place in world civilization. Throughout, Demetz shows how Czechs, Germans, Italians, and Jews have lived and worked together in Prague for a thousand years - and what their peaceful coexistence can teach us in these days of increased nationalism and xenophobia.
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Prague in Black and Gold, Peter Demetz
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- Released
- 1998
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Peter Demetz
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang
- Released
- 1998
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 411
- ISBN10
- 0809078430
- ISBN13
- 9780809078431
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, Maps & Travel, Travel, Czech Literature, Culture and Society, History of Europe, Prague, Litteraria Pragensia, Cities
- First published
- 2004
- Original title
- Prague in black and gold
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- Every year Prague attracts thousands of enthusiastic visitors with its Old World charms. For a millennium this beautiful city in the heart of Central Europe, with its ancient townships set on hills and in valleys overlooking a strategic river, has been at the core of everything both wonderful and terrible in Western history. Prague in Black and Gold strips away the sentimental distortions in a brilliant account that clarifies Prague's true place in world civilization. Throughout, Demetz shows how Czechs, Germans, Italians, and Jews have lived and worked together in Prague for a thousand years - and what their peaceful coexistence can teach us in these days of increased nationalism and xenophobia.