23.2 – Spring 2010: Table of Contents

NOTES FROM THE EDITOR, by Clinton Machann

ARTICLES

  • Otakar Odlozilik and His Work Prior to His Arrival in the U.S.A.
    By Jaroslav Panek
  • Alfred Paul Peres: A Little-Known Anti-Fascist Sudeten German Exile Leader in London
    Francis D. Raska
  • Cech Roots of the American Dollar
    By Petr Vorel
  • Czech Soldiers in the American Civil War: Previous Research and New Perspectives
    By Marek Vlha
  • Kovar, Texas, in 1910: A Historical Snapshot of the Texas Czech Community
    By Robert Janak

ESSAYS

  • Safety and Nutrition in the Socialist Outdoors: Improving Conditions for Communist-Era Youth Hops Brigades in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s
    By Ellen Paul
  • Ilya’s Identity Crisis in Jachym Topol’
    Gargling With Tar By Tracy A. Burns
  • Who Was Kosmas?
    By Zdenek Salzmann

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Vojtech Novotny. Notebooks from New Guinea: Fieldnotes of a Tropical Biologist. Translated by David Short. Illustrated by Benson Avea Bego. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-956165-0.
    By Tracy A. Burns
  • Victor Verney. Warrior of God: Jan Zizka and the Hussite Revolution. London: Frontline Books, 2009. xv, 240 pp. ISBN 978-1-84832-516-6.
    By Robert A. Fudge