{"product_id":"creolizing-the-modern-transylvania-across-empires-hardback-9781501765728","title":"Creolizing the Modern; Transylvania Across Empires (Hardback) 9781501765728","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCreolizing the Modern\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTransylvania Across Empires\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnca Parvulescu (Author), Manuela Boatcă (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501765728\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 October 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e270 pages, 3 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 3 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCreolizing the Modern\u003c\/i\u003e delivers. This book's crowning achievement is its insertion of East Central Europe, with all its particularities, in the historical development of capitalist modernity. [U]nraveling the threads of its predicament can teach us much about our world.\u003ci\u003e Creolizing the Modern\u003c\/i\u003e does precisely so.\u003c\/p\u003e (Miloš Jovanović, Journal of World-Systems Research) \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCreolizing the Modern\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most important books published in the last years. It is an outstanding book that deserves to be read and discussed widely.\u003c\/p\u003e (José Itzigsohn, Journal of World-Systems Research) \u003cp\u003eInnovative, boldly interdisciplinary, and conceptually ambitious, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă's \u003ci\u003eCreolizing the Modern\u003c\/i\u003e defies easy classification.\u003c\/p\u003e (Austrian History Yearbook)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality entangled?\u003c\/b\u003e Bridging the humanities and social sciences, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă provide innovative decolonial perspectives that aim to creolize modernity and the modern world-system. Historical Transylvania, at the intersection of the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, offers the platform for their multi-level reading of the main themes in Liviu Rebreanu's 1920 novel \u003ci\u003eIon\u003c\/i\u003e. Topics range from the question of the region's capitalist integration to antisemitism and the enslavement of Roma to multilingualism, gender relations, and religion. \u003ci\u003eCreolizing the Modern\u003c\/i\u003e develops a comparative method for engaging with areas of the world that have inherited multiple, conflicting imperial and anti-imperial histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Face of Land: Peasants, Property and the Land Question\u003cbr\u003e 2. Transylvania in the World-System: Capitalist Integration, Peripheralization, Antisemitism\u003cbr\u003e 3. The longue durée of Enslavement: Extracting Labor from Romani Music\u003cbr\u003e 4. (Dis)Counting Languages: Transylvanian Interglotism between Hugo Meltzl and Liviu Rebreanu\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Inter-imperial Dowry Plot: Nationalism, Women's Labor, Violence against Women\u003cbr\u003e 6. Feminist Whims: Women's Education in an Inter-imperial Framework\u003cbr\u003e 7. God Is the New Church: The Ethnicization of Religion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607876333848,"sku":"9781501765728","price":99.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/creolizing-the-modern-transylvania-across-empires-hardback-9781501765728","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}