{"id":29024,"date":"2021-12-31T18:47:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T18:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=29024"},"modified":"2021-12-31T18:47:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T18:47:37","slug":"chad-bryant-prague-belonging-in-the-modern-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=29024","title":{"rendered":"Chad Bryant, \u201cPrague: Belonging in the Modern City\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A poignant reflection on alienation and belonging, told through the lives of five remarkable people who struggled against nationalism and intolerance in one of Europe\u2019s most stunning cities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does it mean to belong somewhere? For many of Prague\u2019s inhabitants, belonging has been linked to the nation, embodied in the capital city. Grandiose medieval buildings and monuments to national heroes boast of a glorious, shared history. Past governments, democratic and Communist, layered the city with architecture that melded politics and nationhood. Not all inhabitants, however, felt included in these efforts to nurture national belonging. Socialists, dissidents, Jews, Germans, and Vietnamese\u2014all have been subject to hatred and political persecution in the city they called home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chad Bryant<\/strong> tells the stories of five marginalized individuals who, over the last two centuries, forged their own notions of belonging in one of Europe\u2019s great cities. An aspiring guidebook writer, a German-speaking newspaperman, a Bolshevik carpenter, an actress of mixed heritage who came of age during the Communist terror, and a Czech-speaking Vietnamese blogger: none of them is famous, but their lives are revealing. They speak to tensions between exclusionary nationalism and on-the-ground diversity. In their struggles against alienation and dislocation, they forged alternative communities in cafes, workplaces, and online. While strolling park paths, joining political marches, or writing about their lives, these outsiders came to embody a city that, on its surface, was built for others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A powerful and creative meditation on place and nation, the individual and community, <em>Prague<\/em> envisions how cohesion and difference might coexist as it acknowledges a need common to all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chad Bryant<\/strong> is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674034594\">Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism<\/a>, winner of the Hans Rosenberg Book Prize. He is Associate Professor of History at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unc.edu\/\">The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/a> and has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Humanities Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maps<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Central Europe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greater Prague<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Central Prague<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction: Belonging and Imagination<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. German City<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Czech City<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Revolution City<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Communist City<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Global City<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conclusion: The Stones of Old Town Square<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abbreviations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acknowledgments<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674048652\">https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674048652<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Prague.jpg?fit=453%2C680&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54256,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54256","url_meta":{"origin":29024,"position":0},"title":"CfP Seventh biennial conference Past, Present, Future (Pula, Croatia, October 15\u201316, 2026)","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"22. lipnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Call for Papers Bonds of Unity: Solidarity and Society Across History Seventh biennial conference in the series Past, Present, Future Pula, Croatia, October 15\u201316, 2026 In recent years, the concept of solidarity has once again emerged as a central topic in public discourse. 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