Galicia : A Multicultured land /
Galicia : A Multicultured land /
ed. by Paul Robert Magocsi, Christopher Hann.
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780802037817 9781442675148
10.3138/9781442675148 doi
Cultural pluralism--Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)--Congresses.
HISTORY / Europe / Eastern.
DK4600.G34 ǂb G34 2005eb
943.86004
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780802037817 9781442675148
10.3138/9781442675148 doi
Cultural pluralism--Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)--Congresses.
HISTORY / Europe / Eastern.
DK4600.G34 ǂb G34 2005eb
943.86004