"Postup probíhal zrychleným krokem", aneb čas a prostor v představách účastníků prusko-rakouské války v roce 1866

Authors of the essay have attempted, based on ego-documents, to reveal the borderlines of the discrepancy between the expected standard of intensity and duration of the Austro-Prussian conflict and the subsequent reality. One of the 19th-century modernizing processes condensed in the short and intense clash in the summer of 1866 when in consequence of increased density of the traffic infrastructure and the introduction of new communication and infrastructure networks, the world seemed ‘smaller’ and ‘faster’. The essay brings an analysis of the period discourse that the authors understand not only as a frame within which memories and events were performed, but also as a product of mnemonic processes.