Exploring Transylvania
Subtitle: geographies of knowledge and entangled histories in a multiethnic province, 1790-1918
By: by Borbala Zsuzsanna Torok
Series: National cultivation of culture -- volume 10
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004303041; 9789004303058
Subjects: Politics and government; Learning and scholarship; Sociology of Knowledge; Intellectual life; Relations; Cultural pluralism; Ethnic relations; Learned institutions and societies; Geography; Nationalism; History
Description: "Exploring Transylvania by Borbála Zsuzsanna Török reconstructs the fissured scholarly landscape in one of the most culturally heterogeneous regions of the Habsburg Monarchy. The author creates an original model of the structure and historical dynamics of an East-Central European province in the republic of letters by tracing the activities of learned societies engaged in the exploration of their fatherland and their connections to national academic centers outside Transylvania. Analyzing the entangled history of the local German, Hungarian, and Romanian scholarly cultures, the book demonstrates how a persisting politics of difference practiced by various political regimes over the long nineteenth century enhanced national hierarchies and endemic tensions both in the Transylvanian intellectual milieus and in scholarship itself"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of geographical names in Transylvania; title: Introduction: Nineteenth-century Transylvanian intellectual milieus; Science in the composite monarchy; Interlocking scientific cultures in the province; title: Landeskunde, honismeret-Patriotic scholarship and vernacular languages; title: The friends of progress in the Transylvanian age of reform; title: The nationalization of Landeskunde and civic ethos after 1848; title: Uneven development during the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867-1914); title: Conclusion: Geographies (and temporalities) of polymath learning; What was Landeskunde?; The transformation of the republic of letters in the nation-state.