Abstract
The book is concerned with the issue of social change and the various research approaches used. It deals with the contribution to the development of the socio-historical perspective, viewed as a multidisciplinary method for recording long term processes and changes.
These are presented in themed chapters detailing political events and their influence on the population (the status of the aristocracy, monetary reform, the division of Czechoslovakia) and also the cultural life of Bohemia (the National theatre during the second world war). The monograph also provides the necessary theoretical framework for research in this.
The framework is then analysed in particular areas which allows the presentation of a wide range of methodological approaches which can then be used in the analysis of the relationship between actors and social change. The aim of the book is to present and develop available methodologies and issues in historical sociology.