Title:	“The Prague Peace Congress – an event full of paradoxes”
Authors:	Kessler, Vojtěch
Citation:	West Bohemian Historical Review. 2023, no. 1, p. 1-22.
Issue Date:	2023
Publisher:	Západočeská univerzita v Plzni
Document type:	article článek
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/11025/54719
ISSN:	1804-5480
Keywords:	diplomacie;Pražský mírový kongres;Metternich;Napoleonské války;rovnováha sil
Keywords in different language:	diplomacy;Prague Peace Congress;Metternich;Napoleonic wars;balance of power
Abstract in different language:	Often, a particular historical event, phenomenon or process “defies” inclusion in a specific ideal type or terminology which we are used to using to indicate the particular event. One example of note is the Prague Peace Conference of 1813, which does not meet the “requirements” that a historian might make of a typical peace congress. This is even more reason not to be deterred from attempting to describe, structuralise and systematise it. In this regard, three interconnected paradoxical circumstances come to the fore. First of all, the above-noted conflict between expectation and reality. Secondly the paradox of historiographical disinterest in this “crucial event”, and finally the misappropriation of an event taking place on Czech territory from Czech “national history” and our historical consciousness.
Rights:	© Západočeská univerzita v Plzni
Appears in Collections:	Číslo 1 (2023) Číslo 1 (2023)

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