Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past

Bartov, Omer

ISBN 10: 0300259964 / ISBN 13: 9780300259964

Published by Yale University Press, 2022

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Synopsis:

The story of the diverse communities of Eastern Europe’s borderlands in the centuries prior to World War II<br /><br /> Focusing on the former province of Galicia, this book tells the story of Europe’s eastern borderlands, stretching from the Baltic to the Balkans, through the eyes of the diverse communities of migrants who settled there for centuries and were murdered or forcibly removed from the borderlands in the course of World War II and its aftermath.<br />  <br /> Omer Bartov explores the fates and hopes, dreams and disillusionment of the people who lived there, and, through the stories they told about themselves, reconstructs who they were, where they came from, and where they were heading. It was on the borderlands that the expanding great empires―German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman―overlapped, clashed, and disintegrated. The civilization of these borderlands was a mix of multiple cultures, languages, ethnic groups, religions, and nations that similarly overlapped and clashed. The borderlands became the cradle of modernity. Looking back at it tells us where we came from.

About the Author: Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. He is the author of Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz. He lives in Cambridge, MA.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Tales from the Borderlands: Making and ...
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket