Galicia

by Hann, Chris; Magocsi, Paul Robert

• ISBN13: 9780802039439
• ISBN10: 080203943X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-15
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Christopher Hann is a director of the Max-Planck-Institut fnr Ethnologische Forschung in Halle/Saale, Germany. Paul Robert Magocsi is a professor in the Department of History and the Department of Political Science and the chair of the Ukrainian Studies Program at the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
1 Galicia: A European Land	3	(19)
PAUL ROBERT MAGOCSI
2 Confessional Relations in Galicia	22	(14)
JOHN-PAUL HIMKA
3 Ethnic Communities in the Towns of the Polish-Ukrainian Borderland in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries	36	(16)
JERZY MOTYLEWICZ
4 Borderland City: Przemygl and the Ruthenian National Awakening in Galicia	52	(19)
STANISLAW STEPIEN
5 Orthodoxy and Autocephaly in Galicia	71	(11)
HARALD H. JEPSEN
6 Galician Identity in Ukrainian Historical and Political Thought	82	(21)
VOLODYMYR POTUL'NYTS'KYI
7 Peasants and Patriotic Celebrations in Habsburg Galicia	103	(36)
KAI STRUVE
8 Neighbors as Betrayers: Nationalization, Remembrance Policy, and the Urban Public Sphere in L'viv	139	(21)
ANNA VERONIKA WENDLAND
9 Back to Galicia Felix?	160	(25)
LUIZA BIALASIEWICZ
10 Historical Memory and Regional Identity among Galicia's Ukrainians	185	(25)
YAROSLAV HRYTSAK
11 The Limits of Galician Syncretism: Pluralism, Multiculturalism, and the Two Catholicisms	210	(29)
CHRIS HANN
Contributors	239	(2)
Index	241