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14. "Obecný lid nejvíc ziskem k činům se popuzuje": záchrany lidí před utonutím v Čechách na konci 18. století

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Hudeček, Ondřej
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utonutí, drowning, Česko, Czechia, zdravotní policie, remunerace, drowning people, remuneration, medical police, 8, and 94(437)
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Czech and English
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This article examines the administration of rescue operations to save people from drowning and the distribution of rewards to rescuers in Bohemia during the 1780s and 1790s. Based on documented interrogations and official records, the article looks at the investigatory process, the conditions rescuers had to fulfil in order to apply for a reward from the Bohemian Gubernium, and the role of other actors in this process, such as witnesses and doctors. The study departs from the concept of biopolitics developed by French philosopher Michel Foucault and shows how the state authorities tried to foster mutual solidarity among town dwellers. While Enlightenment thinkers continued to stress the role of "love for human beings" (Menschenliebe), i.e. universal interpersonal solidarity, the elites held the view that the biggest motivation for anyone to save a person from drowning was monetary reward. The aim of the enlighteners, however, was to encourage people to embrace the ideal of "Menschenliebe" and to fully identify with it - hence their emphasis on cases of selfless acts, especially in newspapers and popular literature. Besides that, the article analyses the trend towards the medicalization of society in the Enlightenment period and changes in attitudes to death., Ondřej Hudeček., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
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16. "Sine respectu personarum"? The creation of a new citizen by policing the population. Habsburg Monarchy, 1750-1820

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Himl, Pavel
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státní správa, policie, aristokracie, state administration, police, aristocracy, social equality, 8, and 94(437)
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Czech
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The declared aim of enlightened administrative reforms was to provide security and aid the whole population, i.e., all social classes. Executive powers of the newly introduced police institutions covered - and defined - the whole public sphere and measures such as census or obligation to have a passport applied, at least in theory, to persons from all walks of life. This article examines how and to what extent were these ambitions applied in practice and whether these measures had an equalising effect on the society. The author concludes that unequal, in this case preferential, administrative treatment of especially the aristocracy was still widespread at the beginning of the nineteenth century. On the one hand, persons of a higher social status - who often held public offices - were supposed to embody the new civil virtues and set an example. On the other hand, however, it was feared that any public punishment or police treatment of such persons would undermine public authority and social order in general., Pavel Himl., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
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17. "They now have to create an entirely different vehicle, if they want to catch up with other nations...": Prague literary culture in enlightenment-era travelogues

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Dobiáš, Dalibor
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osvícenství, enlightenment, Rakousko (1526-1804), Austrian monarchy (1526-1804), travelogues, literacy criticism, Habsburg Monarchy, 8, and 94(437)
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Czech
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This article deals with the representation of literary culture in the Bohemian lands in late 18th and early 19th century travelogues as an influential literary genre of the late Enlightenment period. Against the background of their authors’ (mostly North and Central German travellers’) views on the Habsburg monarchy, the Bohemian lands and Prague in particular, as well as their education and art, the article seeks to analyse the variety of perspectives and the clash of external and domestic perspectives, as well as their description strategies. It draws attention both to the ideologisation and interconnection of the travelogue discourse and to the reactions of domestic authors to the travellers’ generalizing criticisms and their forms. To summarize, the article argues that the traditional classification of travelogues as predominantly pro- or anti-Slavic does not exactly hit the mark in this period, for travelogues do reflect the discussion on Czech literary culture in the Bohemian lands in statu(re-)nascendi in the context of local history and the enlightenment of the common folk., Dalibor Dobiáš., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
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18. "Vás o, svatí patronové, pobožně vzýváme" aneb poslední epidemie moru z let 1713-1714 v myšlení a jednání obyvatel města Písku

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Duda, Zdeněk
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mor, plague, Písek (Česko), Písek (Czechia), disciplinační opatření, barokní zbožnost, baroque piety, disciplinary measures, 8, and 94(437)
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Czech and English
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The Black Death plague constituted a major disruption of the ordinary pace of life of the society in early modern period. As such it attracted interest and drew attention. The Black Death menace caused panic and fear, and therefore various measures and actions which were supposed to prevent the outbreak of the plague or at least considerably limit its consequences were defined and carried out. Such practices were shaped by contemporary ideologies and mentalities and reflected everyday experience. The study of various means of dealing with the Black Death menace may be like looking in a mirror in which the curves of the quotidian lifestyle of the period are reflected. The present paper which analyses the last Black Death plague of 1713-1714 in the environment of a south­Bohemian town offers one such view. The mechanisms which the inhabitants of the regional capital Písek formulated and applied in the attempt to confront the iimpending Black Death menace, are specifically examined. The bearing of these mechanisms on contemporary devoutness is also problematized at the level of so­called semi­folk discourse., Zdeněk Duda., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
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20. ''Američan - a musí emigrovat do Československa!'': Škvoreckého jazzman Herbert Ward optikou zpráv FBI

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Petr Vidomus
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historiografie, imigranti, jazzoví hudebníci, historiography, immigrants, jazz musicians, 8, and 93/94
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Czech
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a1_Jednou z klíčových postav povídky Josefa Škvoreckého Malá pražská matahára (1955) je americký hudebník Robert Bulwer. Jeho statutu politického azylanta ,,vyhladovělí pražští fandové'' dovedně využijí k propašování jazzové revue na pražská pódia v době, kdy je tento žánr stále ještě považován za podezřelý. Fiktivní postava Bulwera má reálný předobraz v americkém jazzovém hráči na kontrabas Herbertu Wardovi (1921-1994), který spolu s manželkou, tanečnicí a choreografkou Jacqueline Wardovou (1919-2014) a dvěma syny požádal v roce 1954 o politický azyl v socialistickém Československu a poté do roku 1964 žil v Praze. Autor na základě odtajněných spisů amerického Federálního úřadu pro vyšetřování (FBI), ale i českých a jiných archivních pramenů a dobového tisku vykresluje životní příběh manželů Wardových, zejména jejich působení v Evropě, okolnosti získání azylu a život v Československu. Tento příběh zasazuje do kontextu pronásledování takzvané neamerické činnosti (mccarthismu) ve Spojených státech po vypuknutí studené války, kterým byla vedle jiných levicových umělců postižena také řada jazzových hudebníků a v němž shledává motivy k odchodu Wardových z Ameriky do Dánska v roce 1950. Značnou pozornost věnuje otázce členství Wardových v Komunistické straně USA a spřízněných levicových organizacích a důvodům zájmu FBI o jejich činnost., a2_V líčení jejich autora života v Praze poutá umělecké působení obou manželů, zejména Wardova revuální pásma přibližující pražskému publiku historii jazzu, a později v šedesátých letech jejich narůstající deziluze z pobytu v Československu, která je přivedla k návratu do USA. Stať je mimo jiné příspěvkem do nedávno započaté diskuse o anglicky mluvící levicové komunitě v Československu po začátku studené války a zároveň ilustruje práci FBI v době amerického mccarthismu., a1_One of the key characters of Josef Škvorecký´s short story Prague´s Little Mara Hara (1955) is an American musician named Robert Bulwer. ''Music-hungry fans of Prague'' skillfully use his political refugee´s status to smuggle a jazz revue onto stages of Prague at the time the music style is still viewed as something suspicious. The fictitious character of Bulwer was based on a realistic archetype, American double-bass jazz player Herbert Ward (1921-1994), who together with his wife, dancer and choreographer Jacqueline Ward (1919-2014) and two sons asked for political asylum in socialist Czechoslovakia in 1954 and then lived in Prague until 1964. Using declassified files of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), but also information from Czech and other archival sources and period press, the author depicts the life story of the Wards, in particular their presence in Europe, circumstances under which the asylum was granted, and their life in Czechoslovakia. He sets the story into the context of persecution of so-called un-American activities (McCarthyism) in the United States after the outbreak of the Cold War; in addition to other left-wing artists, the campaign also affected many jazz musicians, and Petr Vidomus sees motives for the 1950 departure of the Wards from the USA to Denmark in it. He pays a lot of attention to the issue of the Wards´ membership in the Communist Party of the USA and related left-wing organizations and reasons of the FBI´s interest in their activities. Insofar as their life in Prague is concerned, the author is interested primarily in their artistic activities, in particular Herbert Ward´s revues describing the history of jazz to Prague´s audience, and later, in the 1960s, their disillusionment with the life in Czechoslovakia, which made them return to the United States., a2_The article is, inter alia, a contribution to a recently started discussion about the English-speaking left-wing community in Czechoslovakia after the beginning of the Cold War, and also illustrates the work of the FBI during the era of McCarthyism in the United States., Petr Vidomus., and Obsahuje bibliografii a bibliografické odkazy
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