address books, social history

Studie se zabývá využitím městských adresářů pro poznání sociálních a urbánních dějin druhé poloviny 19. a 20. století.

The study deals with the use of the city address books of the second half of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century in the up-to-date researches of economic and social history. Following the brief outline of history of city address books issuing on the European continent, attention is paid to particular examples of the use of this source of information in the regional historiography, namely from the extant city address books of the cities of Ostrava and Opava.