Since the end of the 19th century, and throughout the 20th century, the world has undergone profound changes. But it was at the end of the 20th century, a new world emerged, where the advances of global capitalism and the free market - as a homogenizing project - had profound impacts on society, politics and culture, questioning the conception of identity, especially those historically rooted identities, that is, national identities. Like the concept of nationalism, globalization is not a recent phenomenon. However, the rapid changes experienced in the last decade of the century brought new problems for the nation-states. Faced with an increasingly multinational (or transnational) logic, the concept of nation was put into question, as well as the concept of individual. On the other hand, the idea of a worldwide network brought a supposed sense of homogenization of culture, politics, and, of course, economics. If, on the one hand, the globalizing discourse appears as a homogenizing process, on the other, it opens up the fragmentation of identities. Thus, discussing the national question in a world that is increasingly fragmented, and at the same time homogeneous, is a challenge for researchers in the humanities in general. If, on the one hand, the globalizing discourse appears as a homogenizing process, on the other, it opens up the fragmentation of identities. In this way, the book in the readers hands is a long term, in which it is possible to perceive the contradictions of this extremely integrated, and at the same time fragmented world.
“AND NOW THERE ARE CZECH SETTLEMENTS, I.A. IN THE CAUCASUS”
