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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459184203321

Autore

Wolff Larry

Titolo

The idea of Galicia [[electronic resource] ] : history and fantasy in Habsburg political culture / / Larry Wolff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8047-7429-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (502 p.)

Disciplina

943.8/603

Soggetti

Political culture - Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) - History

Electronic books.

Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) Intellectual life

Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Inventing Galicia: The Josephine Enlightenment and the Partitions of Poland; 2. Galicia Restored: The Politics of Metternich and the Comedies of Fredro; 3. The Galician Childhood of Sacher-Masoch: From Folk Songs to Massacres; 4. Galician Vertigo: The Meaning of the Massacres; 5. After the Revolution: The Rise of Czas and the Advent of Franz Joseph; 6. The Average Galician in the Age of Autonomy: Fantasies and Statistics of the Slavic Orient; 7. Fin-de-siècle Galicia: Ghosts and Monsters; 8. The Land of Impossibilities: Another Chapter Beginning

9. Geopolitical Conclusion: The Liquidation of GaliciaNotes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Idea of Galicia analyzes the intellectual and cultural history of a place as an idea:  how Galicia, invented in the late eighteenth century as a geopolitical artifice, gradually acquired complex meaning over the course of its historical existence (and even beyond) for the peoples- Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews- who lived there and for the political culture of the Habsburg monarchy.