The idea of Galicia : history and fantasy in Habsburg political culture / Larry Wolff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolff, Larry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)--History.

Political culture.

Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)--Intellectual life.

Galicia (Poland and Ukraine).

Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (502 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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-siècle Galicia: Ghosts and Monsters; 8. The Land of Impossibilities: Another Chapter Beginning

9. Geopolitical Conclusion: The Liquidation of GaliciaNotes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804774291

0804774293

OCLC:

646788110