The Idea of Galicia : History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture.
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.
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2010.
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| ISBN: | 9780804774291 0804774293 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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-sicle Galicia: Ghosts and Monsters; 8. The Land of Impossibilities: Another Chapter Beginning.
- 9. Geopolitical Conclusion: The Liquidation of GaliciaNotes; Index.