Habsburg Galicia and the Romanian Kingdom: Sociocultural Development, 1866–1914

This comparative attempt, intended for postgraduates and scholars of Eastern-Central Europe, investigates the political, economic, and cultural landscape of Habsburg Galicia and the Romanian Kingdom in the second half of the 19th century.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 01 December 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive comparative study, designed for postgraduates and scholars of Eastern-Central Europe, delves into the political, economic, and cultural landscape of Habsburg Galicia and the Romanian Kingdom in the second half of the 19th century. Often, in historiography and in the public discourse, the two cases under study have been treated as unique contexts that offered atypical responses to modernity, and as parts of a region that has been perceived as atypical in itself.

Recently, efforts have been made to integrate each of the cases within a post-imperial paradigm, recognizing the intricate interplay between their socio-political modernizations and historical memory. This book continues this trajectory by examining the two cases together, as part of a space of alterity, as sites of shifting ideologies and labels.

The public figures and institutions depicted in the book are physically situated in Central and Eastern Europe, yet their experiences sometimes compete, making them illustrative of various identities and historical realms, including local, regional, and continental. Furthermore, the present work addresses dilemmas related to nationalism and nation-building, aiming to distinguish between discourses that reflected on civic nationalism and those that directed the public mind towards the values of ethnic nationalism.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032549057