The Idea of Galicia History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture |
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| Author:
| Wolff, Larry |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8047-6267-0 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2010 |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $130.00 |
Book Description:
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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 even beyond) for the peoples-- Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews-- who lived there and for the political culture of the Habsburg monarchy.
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 even beyond) for the peoples-- Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews-- who lived there and for the political culture of the Habsburg monarchy.