Abstract: In the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the small and easternmost crownland of Bukovina was exceptional in many ways. It was a new addition to the Imperial territory and very much a Habsburg creation: never before had the area been a separate entity. Colonisation efforts added a large number of immigrants to the uneducated peasant population. During the final decades of the Empire’s existence, Bukovina was consciously deployed as a pars pro toto for a utopian Austria in which interethnic harmony and tolerance prevailed: both in- and outside the crownland, the commonplace of ‘Little Austria’ with its Viennese orientation and its vibrant cultural life gained ground. During and after the Habsburg era, numerous studies have appeared on the ethnical composition of Bukovina, the dominance of nationalist theory has led to separate analyses of Habsburg Bukovina’s ‘nationalities’. Ironically, the binding element, the ‘Bukovinianness’ of the crownland and its inhabitants is thus ignored. This particular study focuses on the different identification processes at work and on the question what ‘Bukovinianness’ really encompassed.
- Thesis
- Cover
- Title pages
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Research and writing accountability
- Preface
- Contents
- Part I - Introduction and theoretical framework, 1: Historical overview
- Part I - Introduction and theoretical framework, 2: Theoretical framework
- Part I - Introduction and theoretical framework, 3: Literature survey
- Part II - Bukovinians, 1
- Part II - Bukovinians, 2
- Part II - Bukovinians, 3
- Part III - Elements of regional identification, 1: Introduction and structure
- Part III - Elements of regional identification, 2: Key institutions of Habsburg Bukovina: Landtag and Franz Joseph University
- Part III - Elements of regional identification, 3: The empire, the nation and the region: Competing identifications in Bukovina
- Part III - Elements of regional identification, 4: The myth of Habsburg Bukovina and its terminological difficulties
- Part III - Elements of regional identification, 5: ‘Bukovinian diseases’: Images, allegories and stereotypes
- Part III - Elements of regional identification, 6: Displaying Bukovinian identity: Parades, exhibitions and commemorations
- Summary
- Conclusion
- Summary in Dutch
- Appendix I: Chronology of Habsburg Bukovina with paragraph references
- Appendix II: Bukovinian toponyms
- Appendix III: Sources
Courtesy: University of Amsterdam - Digital Academic Repository
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