Abstract
A new large historical atlas on the Czech and Czechoslovak history of the 20th century is currently being prepared under the project of the Czech Historical Atlas. In this article, the authors introduce the basic research-analytic part of preparation of this cartographic work. It is based on the extensive research and subsequent analysis of the already published and similarly focused Czech (Czechoslovak) and foreign historical atlases, which gave the team sources of inspiration for processing the concept of the new atlas. The choice, the subsequent description and the analysis were achieved by the application of predetermined criteria. The result is a large database of selected historical atlases produced in the whole world after 1950, which contains more than 400 items. In addition to the standard bibliographic description, it contains a series of further characteristics (methods of thematic cartography, applied scale series, etc.) and references to the excerpts. The authors have decided to make the database freely available on a web portal, because they assume that it can be broadly used for research leading to development in the area of atlas cartography.
Highlights
In the wake of the successful project of the Academic Atlas of Czech History (Semotanová, Cajthaml et al 2014) and the publication Frontiers, massacres and replacement of populations in cartographic representation (Semotanová et al 2015), in 2015 the project of the Czech Historical Atlas was successfully submitted.1The Academic Atlas of Czech History sought to introduce a collection of selected, hierarchically arranged findings on the modern Czech historical science after the year 1989, which covered the Czech and Czechoslovak history with links to the European, but mainly the Central European space on maps, cartographic models, illustrations, charts and choropleth maps
As a work based on basic research, the Academic Atlas of Czech History can be compared with numerous British Times atlases, namely for example The Times Atlas of the Second World War (Keegan 1989)
The implemented research and the subsequent analysis clearly confirmed that the Czech (Czechoslovak) and foreign historical atlases have a rich tradition from which the current researchers can draw inspiration for their scientific work
Summary
In the wake of the successful project of the Academic Atlas of Czech History (Semotanová, Cajthaml et al 2014) and the publication Frontiers, massacres and replacement of populations in cartographic representation (Semotanová et al 2015), in 2015 the project of the Czech Historical Atlas was successfully submitted.. A significant proportion of historical atlases published in the last quarter century, much like the previous period, consists of works for school education – e.g. the five-volume set Dějepisné atlasy pro základní školy a víceletá gymnázia (1995–2001) by Helena Mandelová et al, which covers the period from primeval times to the present or the two-volume Atlas českých dějin (1998 and 2003) by Eva Semotanová et al. The work worth mentioning is the two-volume Ottův historický atlas by Eva Semotanová (the Czechia volume – 2007, the Praha volume – 2016) and above all the mentioned large Akademický atlas českých dějin (2014, second edition 2016), which the Czech historiography had long been missing
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