Exploring Transylvania : : geographies of knowledge and entangled histories in a multiethnic province, 1790-1918 / / by Borbala Zsuzsanna Torok.

• Superior document: National cultivation of culture, volume 10
• VerfasserIn: Torok, Borbala Zsuzsanna, 1972-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2016]; 2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: National cultivation of culture ; v. 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 pages) :; illustrations (some color), maps (some color)

"Exploring Transylvania by Borbala Zsuzsanna Torok reconstructs the fissured scholarly landscape in one of the most culturally heterogeneous regions of the Habsburg Monarchy. The author creates an original model of the structure and historical dynamics of an East-Central European province in the republic of letters by tracing the activities of learned societies engaged in the exploration of their fatherland and their connections to national academic centers outside Transylvania. Analyzing the entangled history of the local German, Hungarian, and Romanian scholarly cultures, the book demonstrates how a persisting politics of difference practiced by various political regimes over the long nineteenth century enhanced national hierarchies and endemic tensions both in the Transylvanian intellectual milieus and in scholarship itself"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

List of geographical names in Transylvania -- Introduction: Nineteenth-century Transylvanian intellectual milieus; Science in the composite monarchy; Interlocking scientific cultures in the province -- Landeskunde, honismeret-Patriotic scholarship and vernacular languages -- The friends of progress in the Transylvanian age of reform -- The nationalization of Landeskunde and civic ethos after 1848 -- Uneven development during the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867-1914) -- Conclusion: Geographies (and temporalities) of polymath learning; What was Landeskunde?; The transformation of the republic of letters in the nation-state.