The Rumanian National Movement In Transylvania, 1780-1849
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: worn/faded. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
At the crossroads of empire and identity, The Rumanian National Movement in Transylvania, 1780-1849 chronicles one of Eastern Europe's most consequential yet underexamined struggles for cultural and political self-determination. Set against the backdrop of the Habsburg Empire's rigid social hierarchies, Keith Hitchins details the remarkable awakening of Rumanian national consciousness among a peasant majority long suppressed beneath layers of feudal obligation and ethnic marginalisation, tracing the intellectual, religious, and political currents that transformed a scattered population into a unified national movement. Hitchins argues with scholarly precision that the movement was not merely a political revolt but a profound cultural renaissance — rooted in the Orthodox and Greek Catholic churches, galvanised by Enlightenment ideals filtering in from Vienna and beyond, and crystallised in the revolutionary year of 1848. Drawing on exhaustive archival research, his work presents a nuanced portrait of nationalist ideology in formation, illuminating how language, history, and religion became instruments of liberation. For anyone seeking to understand the deep roots of Romanian national identity and the complex interplay of ethnicity and empire in modern European history, this landmark study raises questions whose echoes have never fully faded.
Author: Keith Hitchins
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, Harvard University Press
Genre: European history
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: worn/faded. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
At the crossroads of empire and identity, The Rumanian National Movement in Transylvania, 1780-1849 chronicles one of Eastern Europe's most consequential yet underexamined struggles for cultural and political self-determination. Set against the backdrop of the Habsburg Empire's rigid social hierarchies, Keith Hitchins details the remarkable awakening of Rumanian national consciousness among a peasant majority long suppressed beneath layers of feudal obligation and ethnic marginalisation, tracing the intellectual, religious, and political currents that transformed a scattered population into a unified national movement. Hitchins argues with scholarly precision that the movement was not merely a political revolt but a profound cultural renaissance — rooted in the Orthodox and Greek Catholic churches, galvanised by Enlightenment ideals filtering in from Vienna and beyond, and crystallised in the revolutionary year of 1848. Drawing on exhaustive archival research, his work presents a nuanced portrait of nationalist ideology in formation, illuminating how language, history, and religion became instruments of liberation. For anyone seeking to understand the deep roots of Romanian national identity and the complex interplay of ethnicity and empire in modern European history, this landmark study raises questions whose echoes have never fully faded.