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The Idea of Galicia
Language: en
Pages: 502
Authors: Larry Wolff
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-09 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning
One Hundred Years in Galicia
Language: en
Pages: 140
Authors: Dennis Ougrin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-12 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Ukrainian Galicia was home to Poles, Jews and Ukrainians for hundreds of years. It was witness to both World Wars, starvation, mass killings and independence mo
Inventing Eastern Europe
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: Larry Wolff
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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Wolff explores how Western thinkers contributed to defining and characterizing Eastern Europe as half-civilized and barbaric.
Galicia, A Sentimental Nation
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Helena Miguélez-Carballeira
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-15 - Publisher: University of Wales Press

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This is the first feminist and postcolonial analysis of Galician cultural nationalism and its relation to the Spanish state and Spanish centralism.
Two Sides of One River
Language: en
Pages: 406
Authors: António Medeiros
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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Galicia, the region in the northwest corner of Spain contiguous with Portugal, is officially known as the Autonomous Community of Galicia. It is recognized as o