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The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture

Larry Wolff

9780804783125

Stanford University Press


History; European history

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504 pages

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Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning for both the peoples who lived there and the Habsburg government that ruled it. Indeed, its memory continues to exercise a powerful fascination for those who live in its former territories and for the descendants of those who emigrated out of Galicia. <br>The idea of Galicia was largely produced by the cultures of two cities, Lviv and Cracow. Making use of travelers' accounts, newspaper reports, and literary works, Wolff engages such figures as Emperor Joseph II, Metternich, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Ivan Franko, Stanislaw Wyspianski, Tadeusz Boy Zelenski, Isaac Babel, Martin Buber, and Bruno Schulz. He shows the exceptional importance of provincial space as a site for the evolution of cultural meanings and identities, and analyzes the province as the framework for non-national and multi-national understandings of empire in European history.

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By:   Larry Wolff
Imprint:   Stanford University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 226mm,  Width: 150mm,  Spine: 30mm
Weight:   658g
ISBN:  

9780804783125


ISBN 10:   0804783128
Pages:   504
Publication Date:   February 2012
Audience:   General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Wolff leads us through time, as Romanticism gives way to positivism, nationalist uprisings to self-critical historical revisionism, physical anthropology to modernist decadence. He leads us through railway stations and cabarets; political assassinations and marital infidelities; ethnographic expeditions and alcoholic trances; the eternal mud of villages and the condescension of Viennese philanthropy. Throughout, he strikes a masterly balance of animated engagement and critical fair-mindedness. --Marci Shore, Times Literary Supplement

[A] masterful intellectual history of the province. --Timothy Snyder, New York Review of Books

The Idea of Galicia is a magnificent addition to recent works on Galicia . . . [Wolff] brings the work of historians, anthropologists, and cultural critics to bear, always giving credit where it is due and applying arguments gleaned from others in new and original ways. The resulting unexpected juxtapositions and insights are stunning, thought provoking, and inspiring . . . This remarkable book is an impressive achievement. --Daniel Unowsky, H-Net

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