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Title Galicia : a multicultured land / edited by Chris Hann and Paul Robert Magosci
Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2005]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 259 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Galicia : a European land / Paul Robert Magocsi -- Confessional relations in Galicia / John-Paul Himka -- Ethnic communities in the towns of the Polish-Ukrainian borderland in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries / Jerzy Motylewicz -- Borderland city : Przemyśl and the Ruthenian national awakening in Galicia / Stanisław Stepień -- Orthodoxy and autocephaly in Galicia / Harold H. Jepsen -- Galician identity in Ukrainian historical and political thought / Volodymyr Potulʹnytsʹkyi -- Peasants and patriotic celebrations in Habsburg Galicia / Kai Struve -- Neighbors as betrayers : nationalization, remembrance policy, and the urban public sphere in Lʹviv / Anna Veronika Wendland -- Back to Galicia Felix? / Luiza Bialasiewicz -- Historical memory and regional identity among Galicia's Ukrainians / Yaroslav Hrytsak -- The limits of Galician syncretism : pluralism, multiculturalism, and the two Catholicisms / Chris Hann
Summary Annotation 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
Notes Original versions of most chapters presented at conference held May 1998 in Århus, Denmark
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Cultural pluralism -- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- Congresses
HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
Cultural pluralism
Ethnic relations
SUBJECT Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses
Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- History -- Congresses
Subject Europe -- Galicia
Genre/Form Electronic books
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Hann, C. M., 1953- editor.
Magocsi, Paul R., editor.
ISBN 9781442675148
1442675144