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Author Torok, Borbala Zsuzsanna, 1972- author.

Title Exploring Transylvania : geographies of knowledge and entangled histories in a multiethnic province, 1790-1918 / by Borbala Zsuzsanna Torok.

Publication Info. Leiden : Brill, [2016]
2016

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Description 1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
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Series National cultivation of culture, 1876-5645 ; volume 10
National cultivation of culture ; v. 10.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents List of geographical names in Transylvania -- Introduction: Nineteenth-century Transylvanian intellectual milieus; Science in the composite monarchy; Interlocking scientific cultures in the province -- Landeskunde, honismeret-Patriotic scholarship and vernacular languages -- The friends of progress in the Transylvanian age of reform -- The nationalization of Landeskunde and civic ethos after 1848 -- Uneven development during the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867-1914) -- Conclusion: Geographies (and temporalities) of polymath learning; What was Landeskunde?; The transformation of the republic of letters in the nation-state.
Summary "Exploring Transylvania by Borbala Zsuzsanna Torok 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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Learned institutions and societies -- Romania -- Transylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Learning and scholarship -- Romania -- Transylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Geography -- Social aspects -- Romania -- Transylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Knowledge, Sociology of -- Political aspects -- Romania -- Transylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Cultural pluralism -- Romania -- Transylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Nationalism -- Romania -- Transylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Transylvania (Romania) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Transylvania (Romania) -- Relations.
Transylvania (Romania) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century.
Transylvania (Romania) -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Torok, Borbala Zsuzsanna. Exploring Transylvania : geographies of knowledge and entangled histories in a multiethnic province, 1790-1918. Leiden : Brill, [2016] National cultivation of culture ; volume 10 9789004303041
ISBN 9789004303041 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9789004303058 (e-book)

 
    
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