Department of Historical Sciences Faculty of Philosophy and Arts University of West Bohemia in Pilsen Tylova 18 301 25 Pilsen

Department of Historical Sciences Faculty of Philosophy and Arts University of West Bohemia in Pilsen Tylova 18 301 25 Pilsen Department of History Faculty of Humanities University of Hamburg Von-Melle-Park 6 D-20146 Hamburg Czech Republic Federal Republic of Germany

West Bohemian Historical Review 02 2014 Department of Historical Sciences Faculty of Philosophy and Arts University of West Bohemia in Pilsen Tylova 18 301 25 Pilsen Department of History Faculty of Humanities University of Hamburg Von-Melle-Park 6 D-20146 Hamburg Czech Republic Federal Republic of Germany

Editors-in-Chief: Ivo Budil, Gabriele Clemens Redaction: Roman Kodet, Lukáš Novotný Editorial Board: Stanislav Balík (Plzeň), Ivo Budil (Plzeň), Gabriele Clemens (Hamburg), Anselm Doering-Manteuffel (Tübingen), Ewald Frie (Tübingen), Radek Fukala (Ústí nad Labem), Frank Golczewski (Hamburg), László Gulyás (Szeged), Arno Herzig (Hamburg), Hermann Joseph Hiery (Bayreuth) Václav Horčička (Praha), Ivan Jakubec (Praha), Drahomír Jančík (Praha), Zdeněk Jirásek (Opava), Dušan Kováč (Bratislava), Richard Lein (Budapest), Hermann Mückler (Wien), Martin Nejedlý (Praha), Monica Rüthers (Hamburg), Aleš Skřivan, Jr. (Praha), Aleš Skřivan, Sr. (Praha), Arnold Suppan (Wien), Miroslav Šedivý (Plzeň), Andrej Tóth (Opava), Marija Wakounig (Wien), Jan Županič (Praha). The journal is abstracted in The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (CEJSH) Journalʼs title abbreviation: WBHR ISSN 1804-5480 MK ČRE 19550

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studies Markéta Kadlecová England and the Promotion of Trade in 16 th and 17 th Centuries 13 Jana Borodáčová Thomas Paine or the Defender of the World Revolution 29 Ivo Budil Alfred Russel Wallace, William Rathbone Greg and the Origin of Social Darwinism 59 Aleš Skřivan, Sr. Aleš Skřivan, Jr. Die Stellung des Hafens Triest und die Bedeutung des Österreichischen Lloyd für den Transport aus der Habsburgermonarchie nach Übersee 77 Marcela Šubrtová La France et l occupation anglaise d Égypte, 1882 1888 93 Géza Gecse Russian Expansion, Self-reflection, and its Absence from Russian Policy from Sarajevo to the Princes Islands (1914 1919) 127 Jaroslav Valkoun Great Britain, the Dominions and the Paris Peace Conference 145 Kathleen Geaney The World of American Communism: Ups and Downs 1918 1945 163 Csaba Máté Sarnyai We do not want Foreign Strongholds within Our National State the Romanian Educational Policy and the Historically Established Churches between the Two World Wars 179 Michal Rak The Perspectives of the Archaeological Knowledge of the American Military Activities during World War II 195

Andrej Tóth On the Situation of Workers of German and Hungarian Nationality in Czechoslovakia in the Period Immediate after World War II on the Background of Restrictive Legislative Measures (1945 1946) 211 József Deák The Police, then Interior Review for the Forming of the Science of Law Enforcement; from its Beginning to the Change of the Political System 237 discussion Vira Burdiak Parliamentary Democracy of the Republic of Bulgaria as an Important Factor of Community Development 255 reviews Stehlík, Michal, Sprengnagel, Gerald M., (Eds.), Kreiského éra v Rakousku a období normalizace v ČSSR, Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Filozofická fakulta, 2013, ISBN 978-80-7308-480-6, 245 p. 275 Gruner, Wolf D., Der Wiener Kongress 1814/1815, Stuttgart: Reclam, 2014, ISBN 978-3-15019-252-8, 261 p. 279 Phillipson, David W., Foundations of an African Civilisation. Aksum and the Northern Horn, 1000 BC AD 1300, Woodbridge: James Currey, 2012, ISBN 978-1-84701-088-9, 294 p. 283

Authors/Authoren Markéta Kadlecová (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) Jana Borodáčová (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) Ivo Budil (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic) Aleš Skřivan, Sr. (Charles University, Prague/ University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic) Aleš Skřivan, Jr. (University of Economics, Prague/ University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic) Marcela Šubrtová (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) Géza Gecse (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary) Jaroslav Valkoun (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) Kathleen Geaney (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) Csaba Máté Sarnyai (Károli Gáspár University, Budapest, Hungary) Michal Rak (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic) Andrej Tóth (Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic) József Deák (National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary) Vira Burdiak (National University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine)

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