From Borderland to Burgenland : Science, Geopolitics, Identity, and the Making of a Region

• Autore: Jankó Ferenc
• Pubblicazione: 2024; Budapest : , : Central European University Press, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (381 pages)
• Disciplina: 943.615
• Soggetto topico: Geopolitics - Austria - Burgenland; Germans - Austria - Burgenland; HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary
• Soggetto geografico: Burgenland (Austria) History; Burgenland (Austria) Politics and government; Burgenland (Austria) Historiography; Hungary Boundaries Austria; Austria Boundaries Hungary
• Classificazione: SOC015000
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Approaches of the book -- Pictures of Burgenland -- Chapter 2. The Romance of the Monarchy -- Seen from Cisleithania -- Seen from Transleithania -- Chapter 3. Discoverers -- From language territory to territorial claim -- A tentative boundary recommendation -- The most Austrian geographer -- Burgenlandarbeit -- Pionierarbeit -- Explorers of north and south -- Chapter 4. Discoverers of Burgenland and German Geopolitics -- The Empire comes back -- Hands up, yogi! -- A German borderland in the southeast -- Chapter 5. Identity and Tourism -- Burgenland idyll -- Landeskunde, Heimatkunde -- Chapter 6. The Discovery of Burgenland in the Spatial and Temporal Perspective -- We came to bid our farewells -- Grenzland reloaded -- Chapter 7. Private Discovery
• Sommario/riassunto: The area that constitutes the Austrian federal province of Burgenland belonged to the Hungarian part of the Habsburg empire until the end of World War I. This book helps us realize that geographical knowledge does not come ready-made. Instead, it is created by knowledge makers: geographers, historians, statisticians etc. This knowledge-making helped to legitimatize the area transferred between Austria and Hungary, shape the Burgenland identity, and depict its geopolitical role in the rise of national socialism. This book is about how those studying Burgenland, the creators of its geographical knowledge, saw and represented the province. It explores how they grasped the geographical characteristics of the region through their own perspective, influenced by their own professional positions, individual careers, motivations, and by the broader historical and social medium. The way the area between the provinces of Lower Austria and Styria came about as Burgenland is enthralling, as is how the people there experienced this change of sovereignty and how everyday social and economic relationships were transformed. Tracing the geographical discourses in the interwar period and beyond, the book argues that Burgenland became a successful geographical project, and departs from thoughts of subdivision, unviability, and backwardness, concentrating instead on fertility, unity, and modernization.
• Titolo autorizzato: From Borderland to Burgenland
• ISBN: 1-003-71974-0; 963-386-650-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910874701003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II