1st Edition
From Borderland to Burgenland Science, Geopolitics, Identity, and the Making of a Region
By Ferenc Jankó
Copyright 2024
382 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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, historians, statisticians etc. This knowledge-making helped to legitimatize the area transferred between... Read more
List of Figures Acknowledgements, Chapter 1. Introduction, Chapter 2. The Romance of the Monarchy, Chapter 3. Discoverers, Chapter 4. Discoverers of Burgenland and German Geopolitics, Chapter 5. Identity and Tourism, Chapter 6. The discovery of Burgenland in the Spatial and Temporal, Chapter 7. Private Discovery, Chapter 8. Summary, References, List of figures, Index
Biography
Ferenc Jankó is associate professor at the Department of Social and Economic Geography, Eötvös Loránd University.
