From Borderland to Burgenland Science, Geopolitics, Identity, and the Making of a Region
The area that constitutes the Austrian federal province of Burgenland belonged to the Hungarian part of the Habsburg empire until the end of World War I. This book helps us realize that geographical knowledge does not come ready-made. Instead, it is created by knowledge makers: geographers, historia...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Budapest :
Central European University Press
2024.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009840639906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Front matter
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Approaches of the book
- Pictures of Burgenland
- Chapter 2. The Romance of the Monarchy
- Seen from Cisleithania
- Seen from Transleithania
- Chapter 3. Discoverers
- From language territory to territorial claim
- A tentative boundary recommendation
- The most Austrian geographer
- Burgenlandarbeit
- Pionierarbeit
- Explorers of north and south
- Chapter 4. Discoverers of Burgenland and German Geopolitics
- The Empire comes back
- Hands up, yogi!
- A German borderland in the southeast
- Chapter 5. Identity and Tourism
- Burgenland idyll
- Landeskunde, Heimatkunde
- Chapter 6. The Discovery of Burgenland in the Spatial and Temporal Perspective
- We came to bid our farewells
- Grenzland reloaded
- Chapter 7. Private Discovery
