Exploring Transylvania: Geographies of Knowledge and Entangled Histories in a Multiethnic Province, 1790–1918: 10 (National Cultivation of Culture, 10) - Hardcover

Török, Borbála Zsuzsanna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004303049 ISBN 13: 9789004303041

Publisher: Brill, 2015

Synopsis

Exploring Transylvania by 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, solidified national hierarchies and exacerbated endemic tensions both in the Transylvanian intellectual milieus and in scholarship itself.

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About the Author

Borbála Zsuzsanna Török is Associated Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz. As a historian of modern Europe, her research analyzes the configuration of scholarship in imperial settings, including her co-edited volume Negotiating Knowledge in Early Modern Empires (Palgrave, 2014).

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004303049
• ISBN 13: 9789004303041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300