Galicia: A Multicultured land - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080203781X ISBN 13: 9780802037817

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2005

Synopsis

Habsburg Galicia was an area in central Europe covering territory presently occupied by Poland and Ukraine that was distinctive for its multi-ethnic character. With the unraveling of the Austro-Hungarian Empire following the First World War, a new political map of Europe emerged, one based on the principle of the nation-state. The very concept of the nation-state, however, was problematic in culturally pluralistic regions like Galicia.

The essays in this volume examine Galicia beyond the traditional paradigm of national history, in an effort to better understand the region as a place where different ethnic communities - Poles, Ukrainians, Jews, Austro-Germans - lived in peaceful co-existence. As expansion of the European Union proceeds, as migration becomes increasingly prevalent, and as the very concept of the nation-state is called into question, a look back to see how cultural diversity was managed in a pre-nationalist age is of more than antiquarian interest. The contributors to this multidisciplinary volume pursue a wide range of approaches to shed fresh light on this unique region.

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About the Author

Christopher Hann is a director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Ethnologische Forschung in Halle/Saale, Germany.

Paul Robert Magocsi is a professor in the Departments of History and Political Science at the University of Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 080203781X
• ISBN 13: 9780802037817
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Hann Christopher, Magocsi Paul Robert