Historica Olomucensia vol. 37 (2010), 11-16
Article analyses the methodology of both the German and Austrian historical writings regarding research on township and civil society, with additional information on the up-to-date state of research in the Czech Republic. The author works with the traditional triad (Stadtbürgertum - Wirtschaftsbürgertum - Bildungsbürgertum), focusing his attention on differences in social and cultural profile of the Czech Lands in comparison to Germany, as well as on the process of mixing the old burgher classes with the newly rising liberal society, a process that highly contributed to severe failings in Austrian liberalism. Kleinstadtbürgertum and Kleinstadtbildungsbürgertum...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 37 (2010), 17-42
The purpose of this article is to summarize the process of change as it developed in European warfare during the "long" 19th century. As it is impossible to make a deep analysis of the whole problem in such a short space, the text is much more of a general survey, with necessary albeit important omissions of the non-European warfare, including the colonial experience. At the beginning, a starting point for the whole essay is established with survey of war in the so-called Age of Reason. Connection between war and society as well as military thinking and theories (the so-called "military enlightenment") are given the primary attention. Then, the flow...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 37 (2010), 43-57
Women's history started in connection with the development of academic feminism in the post-marxist and post-structuralist era. Women were implanted into history as a part of political history. In Czech historical writing, these topics were somewhat scarcely present already at the end of 19th century, however, they never constituted an integral part of historiography. Original studies of "history of women" used to be based either on social sciences or on historical demography. However, there were several conferences about this problem held during the last twenty years. Women's history is being constantly developed here these days, although still struggling...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 37 (2010), 59-68
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, the commander-in-chief of allied armies at Leipzig in 1813, was one of the most popular celebrities of his time, this popularity encompassing even the first proponents of Czech nationalism. After his death, he was mourned as a great Czech captain by the Czech nationalist press, one who had spread national glory throughout the whole Europe. However, his memory slowly waned into oblivion, a process supported by the fact that Czech nationalism turned towards liberal worldview during 1840s, acquiring liberal interpretations of the past (the Revolution and Bonaparte included) along the way. Thus, while contemporaries...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 37 (2010), 69-76
Olomouc malt houses used to be owned almost exclusively by Jewish businessmen. These malt houses belonged among the oldest and largest in Austria and they owners were, through their business and political connections, quite powerful citizens. They were seated in important economic and political offices (in Olomouc as well as at state level), were involved in religious life (not only) of Olomouc, and were important participants in the process of industrialization and urbanization of the city. This article deals with life and public involvement of three (four) generations of Olomouc maltsters.
Historica Olomucensia vol. 37 (2010), 77-84
Since the Middle Ages, nobility constituted a privileged social elite. Its social standing was codified through many legal documents. These documents reflected specific developments of many European countries and therefore it is not very surprising that they were rather different from one another. Thanks to this, there were countries with numerous noble class (Hungary or Poland, for example), and, on the other hand, countries where noblemen were rather scarce, as is the case of the Czech Lands - here the rate of noblemen to commoners was 828:1 (about 1850). The main reason is that since the Middle Ages, numbers especially of lower nobility were in...
Historica Olomucensia vol. 37 (2010), 87-90
Historica Olomucensia vol. 37 (2010), 91-92
