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 and 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 relatively
peaceful coexistence can teach us in
these days of increased nationalism
and xenophobia.
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