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The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History.(Brief Article)
Derek Sayer. Princeton Univ., $29.95 (413p) ISBN 0-691-05760-5
Sayer's previous books have carried such fearsome rifles as The Violence of Abstraction: The Analytical Foundations of Historical Materialism, so one can be forgiven for facing this volume with some trepidation. Don't. Sayer doesn't fall into the many traps awaiting cultural histories: he weaves individuals into the larger story, doesn't give in to nationalistic boosterism and doesn't make the messy unnecessarily clean. In readable but never condescending prose, Sayer tries to balance the multiplicity of art forms (although the performing arts do take second place to literature and visual arts) to show how the …
