Paul Robert Magocsi

With Their Backs to the Mountains (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a history of a stateless people, the Carpatho-Rusyns, and their historic homeland, Carpathian Rus', located in the heart of central Europe. At the present, when it is fashionable to speak of nationalities as "e;imagined communities"e; or as transnational constructs "e;created"e; by intellectuals\ elites who may live in the historic "e;national"e; homeland or in the diaspora, Carpatho-Rusyns provide an ideal example of a people made-or some would say still being made-before our very eyes. The book traces the evolution of Carpathian Rus' from earliest pre-historic times to the present and the complex manner in which a distinct Carpatho-Rusyn people, since the mid-nineteenth century, came into being, disappeared, and then re-appeared in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the collapse of Communist rule in central and eastern Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Central European University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789633861073
• Artikelnr.: 66238610

Autorenporträt

Paul Robert Magocsi is professor of history and political science at the University of Toronto, where since 1980 he also holds the John Yaremko Chair of Ukrainian Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps, List of Tables, Introduction, Chapters 1. Carpatho-Rusyns and
the land of Carpathian Rus' Human geography No shortage of names Physical
geography A borderland of borders 2. Carpathian Rus' in prehistoric times
Earliest human settlements The Iron Age and the Celts Early peoples in
Carpathian Rus' The Roman Empire and the Dacians 3. The Slavs and their
arrival in the Carpathians The Huns and the displacement of peoples The
origin-of-peoples fetish Is DNA the reliable way? The Slavs and Carpathian
Rus' Dwellings of the early Slavs The White Croats and the Avars 4. State
formation in central Europe The Pax Romana and the Byzantine Empire Greater
Moravia Saints Constantine/Cyril and Methodius Christianity becomes our
religion Contents Who among the East Slavs first received Christianity? The
Magyars and Hungary Historical memory and political reality The rise of
Poland Kievan Rus' The Great Debate: the origin of Rus' 5. Carpathian Rus'
until the early 16th century The formation of the Hungarian Kingdom A
medieval Carpatho-Rusyn state: fact or fiction? The Mongol invasion and the
restructuring of Hungary The Vlach colonization Kings, nobles, and the
implementation of serfdom Poland: administrative and socioeconomic
structure The fall of Constantinople and the decline of Orthodoxy 6. The
Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, and Carpathian Rus' The Ottoman
Empire in central Europe The Protestant Reformation The Catholic Counter
-Reformation Poland and church union Transylvania and church union in
Hungary The Union of Uzhhorod Uniates/Greek Catholics: A new church or a
return to the old? 7. The Habsburg restoration in Carpathian Rus' Rákóczi's
War of Liberation Habsburg Austria's transformation of Carpathian Rus' The
Bachka-Srem Vojvodinian Rusyns Poland and Galicia's Lemko Region 8.
Habsburg reforms and their impact on Carpatho-Rusyns The reforms of Maria
Theresa and Joseph II Uniate/Greek Catholics and the Enlightenment in
Carpathian Rus' Carpatho-Rusyns become an historical people 9. The
Revolution of 1848 and the Carpatho-Rusyn national awakening The
multicultural Austrian Empire Kakania's emperors and kings What is
nationalism and what are national movements? Nationalism in Hungary From
inferiority to superiority: the transformation of a dangerous complex
Revolution in the Austrian lands and Hungary The Carpatho-Rusyn national
awakening: politics The first Carpatho-Rusyn political program The
Carpatho-Rusyn national awakening: culture Did Carpatho-Rusyns really love
the Russians?1 0. Carpathian Rus' in Austria-Hungary, 1868-1914 The Dual
Monarchy and Austrian parliamentarism In search of a Rus' national identity
The national awakening in the Lemko Region Hungary and its magyarization
policies Magyarization despite the letter of the law Carpatho-Rusyns in
Hungarian politics Carpatho-Rusyns and national survival Socioeconomic
developments Was life in pre-World War I Carpathian Rus' so destitute? 11.
Carpatho-Rusyn diasporas before World War I Migration to the Srem, Banat,
and Bachka Emigration abroad to the United States Rusyn-American religious
and secular organizations Rejected Greek Catholics and the return to
Orthodoxy You are not a proper priest Ruthenians become Uhro
(Hungarian)-Rusyns, or Russians, or Ukrainians Rusyn Americans and
international politics 12. Carpathian Rus' during World War I, 1914-1918
The end of ....