The Idea of Galicia
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The Idea of Galicia

History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture

  1. 504 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Idea of Galicia

History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture

About this book

Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning for both the peoples who lived there and the Habsburg government that ruled it. Indeed, its memory continues to exercise a powerful fascination for those who live in its former territories and for the descendants of those who emigrated out of Galicia.

The idea of Galicia was largely produced by the cultures of two cities, Lviv and Cracow. Making use of travelers' accounts, newspaper reports, and literary works, Wolff engages such figures as Emperor Joseph II, Metternich, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Ivan Franko, Stanis?aw Wyspia?ski, Tadeusz "Boy" ?ele?ski, Isaac Babel, Martin Buber, and Bruno Schulz. He shows the exceptional importance of provincial space as a site for the evolution of cultural meanings and identities, and analyzes the province as the framework for non-national and multi-national understandings of empire in European history.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. Inventing Galicia: The Josephine Enlightenment and the Partitions of Poland
  5. 2. Galicia Restored: The Politics of Metternich and the Comedies of Fredro
  6. 3. The Galician Childhood of Sacher-Masoch: From Folk Songs to Massacres
  7. 4. Galician Vertigo: The Meaning of the Massacres
  8. 5. After the Revolution: The Rise of Czas and the Advent of Franz Joseph
  9. 6. The Average Galician in the Age of Autonomy: Fantasies and Statistics of the Slavic Orient
  10. 7. Fin-de-siècle Galicia: Ghosts and Monsters
  11. 8. The Land of Impossibilities: Another Chapter Beginning
  12. 9. Geopolitical Conclusion: The Liquidation of Galicia
  13. Notes
  14. Index