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Automobiles and the nobility in the Czech lands 1894-1945 M. Hořejš, J. Křížek and colleagues

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The connection between the nobility and the automobile is surprising and unexpected for many people. The nobility is perceived as a conservative community, living in its own world of conservative rituals and completely closed, not only to new advances in science and technology. This myth is only slowly being dispelled and the nobility is being imagined as an independent factor in both the economic sphere and the field of science and technology.

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The connection between the nobility and the automobile is surprising and unexpected for many people. The nobility is perceived as a conservative community, living in its own world of conservative rituals and completely closed, not only to new advances in science and technology. This myth is only slowly being dispelled and the nobility is being imagined as an independent factor in both the economic sphere and the field of science and technology.
Hardcover, format 17 x 20.5 cm, 309 pages
Published by the National Technical Museum Prague

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