Privacy Information and Technology or Flag Wars and Stone Saints

Privacy, Information, and Technology

Author: Daniel J Solov

Privacy, Information, and Technology, with its comprehensive approach, is ideal for use in cyberlaw, law and technology, privacy law, and information law courses and seminars.

Features include:

Perfect addendum for instructors wanting to cover information privacy issues in more depth in their courses and provides material for one to three weeks worth of class instruction. It is a great addition to courses in communications, media, cyberspace, information society, and technology

Extensive and clear background about the law and policy issues relating to information privacy and computers, databases, and the Internet Useful in undergraduate and graduate courses for an introduction to information privacy and technology issues because it explains the law clearly for the layperson

Introductory chapter provides comprehensive thought-provoking philosophical discussion of information privacy

Covers emerging information technologies: computer databases, RFID, cookies, spyware, and data mining

Covers new issues such as privacy and access to public records, government access to personal information, airline passenger screening and profiling, data mining, identity theft, consumer privacy issues, and financial privacy

New interesting book: The Forme of Cury or The Salad Book

Flag Wars and Stone Saints: How the Bohemian Lands Became Czech

Author: Nancy Merriwether Wingfield

In a new perspective on the formation of national identity in Central Europe, Nancy Wingfield analyzes what many historians have treated separately—the construction of the Czech and German nations—as a larger single phenomenon.

Czech and German nationalism worked off each other in dynamic ways. As external conditions changed, Czech and German nationalists found new uses for their pasts and new ways to stage them in public spaces for their ongoing national projects. These grassroots confrontations transformed public culture by reinforcing the centrality of nationality to everyday life and by tying nationalism to the exercise of power. The battles in the public sphere produced a cultural geography of national conflict associated with the unveiling of Joseph II statues that began in 1881, the Badeni Language Ordinances of 1897, the 1905 debate over a Czech-language university in Moravia, and the celebration of the emperor's sixtieth jubilee in 1908. The pattern of impassioned national conflict would be repeated for the duration of the monarchy and persist with even more violence into the First Czechoslovak Republic.

Numerous illustrations show how people absorbed, on many levels, visual clues that shaped how they identified themselves and their groups. This nuanced analysis is a valuable contribution to our understanding of Central European history, nationalism, and the uses of collective memory.

Table of Contents:

List of Maps and Illustrations     xi
List of Abbreviations     xv
A Note on Language     xvii
Introduction     1
Imagining the Emperor: Statues of Joseph II as Sites of German Identity     17
The Battle Joined: Protesting the Badeni Language Ordinances     48
The Moravians Compromise? Czechs, Germans, and the Question of a Second Czech University     79
Centers and Peripheries: The Francis Joseph Jubilees     107
National Myths and the Consolidation of the Czechoslovak State     135
Pomp and Circumstances: Commemorations and the Construction of National Memory     170
The Politics of Sound: "Talkies" and Anti-German Demonstrations in Prague     199
The Attempt to Construct a German Community     231
The Politics of Memory in Postwar Czechoslovakia     261
Conclusion     291
Notes     303
Index     345