Česká historiografie na počátku 21. století – mezi příběhem, strukturou a teorií

This study is devoted to the contemporary state of Czech historical science on two levels. 1) It deals with scientific procedures and texts considered to be the contemporary state of historical knowledge, including issues of the interpretation of modern history and the necessity of interpreting world history from a Czech point of view, so that the national history might be interlinked more closely with the general context of world development. It also draws attention to the changing the centres of world events, which shift more markedly to non Euro-Atlantic world thereby changing the total interpretation framework of history as well; 2) It interprets historical science as the institutional background and its transformations, based, to a greater degree, on the legislative framework which also influences the functioning of editorial boards of journals, the holding of conferences and the publishing of studie s and books through the evaluation of the science by the advisory boards of Government.