Academic Encyclopaedia of the Czech History. Vol. IX (N: religious emigration – Nymburk program)

The ninth volume of the encyclopaedia, which has been produced by the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the work of its researchers in cooperation with leading experts from other academic institutions and universities, contains approximately 300 entries, some of them very extensive; all entries in categories A, B and C are accompanied by a thorough bibliography. The polythematic set of entries is clearly dominated by two groups, i.e. topics beginning with the letter 'N' – national and German (německý). The first group includes definitions of terms such as nation, nationality, nationalism and their derivatives, and the characteristics and history of institutions of a national character such as the National Archives, the National Bank, the National Theatre, the National Museum, the National Court, the National Party and many others. The second group encyclopaedically treats the role of people of German nationality who made a significant contribution to the history of the Czech lands from the 13th to almost the middle of the 20th century (German political parties, clubs, programs, journalism, higher education institutions, German studies), as well as the attitude of Germans and Germany toward the Czech lands from medieval settlement to Nazism.  Other entries illuminate concepts related to the political, economic, military and diplomatic, cultural, and ecclesiastical history of the Middle Ages, the early modern period, and the 19th, 20th, and early 21st centuries.