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

"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 th...

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