Exploring Transylvania : geographies of knowledge and entangled histories in a multiethnic province, 1790-1918 / / by Borbála Zsuzsanna Török

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822628003321
• Autore: Török Borbála Zsuzsanna <1972->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden : , : Brill, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 90-04-30305-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Collana: National cultivation of culture, , 1876-5645 ; ; volume 10
• Disciplina: 949.8/4
• Soggetti: Learned institutions and societies - Romania - Transylvania - History - 19th century; Learning and scholarship - Romania - Transylvania - History - 19th century; Geography - Social aspects - Romania - Transylvania - History - 19th century; Knowledge, Sociology of - Political aspects - Romania - Transylvania - History - 19th century; Cultural pluralism - Romania - Transylvania - History - 19th century; Nationalism - Romania - Transylvania - History - 19th century; Transylvania (Romania) Intellectual life 19th century; Transylvania (Romania) Relations; Transylvania (Romania) Ethnic relations History 19th century; Transylvania (Romania) Politics and government 19th century
• 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: List of geographical names in Transylvania -- Introduction: Nineteenth-century Transylvanian intellectual milieus; Science in the composite monarchy; Interlocking scientific cultures in the province -- Landeskunde, honismeret-Patriotic scholarship and vernacular languages -- The friends of progress in the Transylvanian age of reform -- The nationalization of Landeskunde and civic ethos after 1848 -- Uneven development during the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867-1914) -- Conclusion: Geographies (and ; temporalities) of polymath learning; What was Landeskunde?; The transformation of the republic of letters in the nation-state.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Exploring Transylvania by Borbála Zsuzsanna Török reconstructs the fissured scholarly landscape in one of the most culturally heterogeneous regions of the Habsburg Monarchy. The author creates an original model of the structure and historical dynamics of an East-Central European province in the republic of letters by tracing the activities of learned societies engaged in the exploration of their fatherland and their connections to national academic centers outside Transylvania. Analyzing the entangled history of the local German, Hungarian, and Romanian scholarly cultures, the book demonstrates how a persisting politics of difference practiced by various political regimes over the long nineteenth century enhanced national hierarchies and endemic tensions both in the Transylvanian intellectual milieus and in scholarship itself"--Provided by publisher.