1. Finding roles: the participants (Heroic narrating, or: Maria Wysłouchowa and love ; Dramatic directing, or Natalja Kobryns'ka and books ; Theatrical enacting, or: Rosa Pomeranz and charisma) -- 2. Propagating: the plays (Writing collectives into existence ; composing experience ; enacting history) -- 3. Organizing: the stages (Ritualizing education ; Rehearsing nation ; Designing society) -- 4. Mobilizing: the enactments (Recitations about role models ; Monologues about competition ; Dialogues about practice)
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Austrian Empire ranked third among the world's oil-producing states (surpassed only by the United States and Russia), and accounted for five percent of global oil production. By 1918, the Central Powers did not have enough oil to maintain a modern military. How and why did the promise of oil fail Galicia (the province producing the oil) and the Empire? In a brilliantly conceived work, Alison Frank traces the interaction of technology, nationalist rhetoric, social tensions, provincial politics, and entrepreneurial vision in shaping the Galician oil industry. She portrays this often overlooked oil boom's transformation of the environment, and its reorientation of religious and social divisions that had defined a previously agrarian population, as surprising alliances among traditional foes sprang up among workers and entrepreneurs, at the workplace, and in the pubs and brothels of new oiltowns. Frank sets this complex story in a context of international finance, technological exchange, and Habsburg history as a sobering counterpoint to traditional modernization narratives. As the oil ran out, the economy, the population, and the environment returned largely to their former state, reminding us that there is nothing ineluctable about the consequences of industrial development
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Inventing Galicia : the Josephine Enlightenment and the partitions of Poland -- Galicia restored : the politics of Metternich and the comedies of Fredro -- The Galician childhood of Sacher-Masoch : from folk songs to massacres -- Galician vertigo : the meaning of the massacres -- After the revolution : the rise of Czas and the advent of Franz Joseph -- The average Galician in the age of autonomy : fantasies and statistics of the Slavic Orient -- Fin-de-siècle Galicia : ghosts and monsters -- The land of impossibilities : another chapter beginning -- Geopolitical conclusion : the liquidation of Galicia -- Haunted epilogue : Galicia after Galicia
"In the last third of the nineteenth century, the discourse on the "Jewish question" in the Habsburg crownlands of Galicia changed fundamentally, as clerical and populist politicians emerged to denounce the Jewish assimilation and citizenship. This pioneering study investigates the interaction of agitation, violence, and politics against Jews on the periphery of the Danube monarchy. In its comprehensive analysis of the functions and limitations of propaganda, rumors, and mass media, it shows just how significant antisemitism was to the politics of coexistence among Christians and Jews on the eve of the Great War"--
