What determines the shape and texture of life in small communities in Eastern Europe? How do historical processes of change determine the social forms of the present? What forms of ethnic identifications take in Eastern Europe? This first English-language work on Transylvanian rural society approaches these questions by weaving together history, sociology, and ethnography.
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Seller: MARK POST, BOOKSELLER, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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Seller: Eyebrowse Books, MWABA, Dearborn, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Hardcover, First Edition University of California Press 431 pages. Near Fine, in a VG+ DJ. Medium blue cloth boards with silver titles - one corner has a tint bump. Minor shelf/edge wear and one closed tear to unclipped DJ - now in mylar. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and crisp. The first english language work on Transylvanian rural society and all the different nationalities (Magyar, Romanian and others). 27 pages of notes, 19 pages of cited references plus index. Very well done history. ISBN-0520048792. LOC SSS-05. Seller Inventory # 181016004
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Inscribed by Katherine Verdery on front end page. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xvii, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. *Autographed by author.*. Signed. Seller Inventory # 2310200068
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Tall 8vo. xvii, [1], 431, [1] pp. Photos, tables, maps. Blue cloth, silver lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition of this unusual history of a micro-society, the village of Bintinti in Transylvania from the 17th century to the 20th. The author posits that the underdevelopment of villages like Bintinti in Romanian Transylvania can be traced to medieval feudalism, and the state-building processes of the Habsburgs. Seller Inventory # 40776
Seller: Hockley Books, Palgrave, ON, Canada
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Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xvii, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents: Part I: Transylvanian Villagers in the Socialist Present Part II: Transylvanian Villagers in the Habsburg Political Economy Part III: The Climax of Nationalism and Transylvania Under Hungarian Rule Part IV: Transylvanian Peasants in Pre-Communist Romania. Seller Inventory # cb718
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