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Paper analyses the road network development in 18th century Hungary, mainly on the territory of today’s Slovakia. It summarizes and explains the circumstances accompanying its modernization since the first half of the 18th century. In the first part, the authors interpret the transport infrastructure development in a broader socio-economic and geographical context. In the second part, they detailed the historical-geographical aspects of road construction in the 18th century. The solved section of the road between Trakovice and Leopoldov is unique because Samuel Mikovíni planned it. They built the road between 1735 and 1737. We want to answer the question to what extent we can consider this road as a model example of the construction of other roads and if the road was somehow specific due to the work of Mikovíni. We are also interested in how Mikovíni was affected by the know-how of building modern roads, which penetrated the Habsburg monarchy as a French technological import.
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1980s Czechoslovakia provides the backdrop for an emergence of an approach to social change conceptualized within sociology as a positive deviance. The term is used to describe individuals and communities which defy negative behaviour patterns in society. The Normalization period in Czechoslovakia was generally characterized by passivity and reluctance to engage in public matters. It was within this atmosphere that the so-called “islands of positive deviance” became antidotes to general resignation and proved to be hotbeds of citizen activism, later paving the way for the emergence of civil society. One such example of activism within the setting of devastated nature in Slovakia was the Slovak environmental movement formally constituted under the Slovak Union of Nature and Landscape Protectors (SZOPK). The aim of this paper is to analyse the factors leading up to the transformation of an official, state-controlled organization into a well-respected social movement. Due to the broad scope of their pursuits, the paper mainly focuses on activities which raised their public profile and contributed to the spread of positive behaviour patterns in society.
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