Nation-Building and Contested Identities: Romanian and Hungarian Case Studies

C O N T E N T S......Page 4
FOREWORD......Page 6
Searching for Common Grounds:......Page 8
MODERNITY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY: APPROACHES, DILEMMAS, LEGACIES......Page 18
The Intellectual Horizons of Liberal Nationalism in Hungary: The Case of Mihály Horváth......Page 20
The Idea of the “Nation” in Transylvanism......Page 41
The “Münchausenian Moment”: Modernity, Liberalism and Nationalism in the Thought of ªtefan Zeletin......Page 60
The Nationality of Reasoning: Autochthonist Understandings of Philosophy in Interwar Romania......Page 80
National Prejudices, Mass Media and History Textbooks: The Mitu Controversy......Page 92
PART 2. NATION-BUILDING AND REGIONALISM IN A MULTI-ETHNIC CONTEXT......Page 118
“The California of the Romanians”: The Integration of Northern Dobrogea into Romania, 1878-1913......Page 120
Contrasting/Conflicting Identities: Bessarabians, Romanians, Moldovans......Page 152
The Dislocated Transylvanian Hungarian Student Body and the Process of Hungarian Nation-Building after 1918......Page 178
Transylvania Revisited: Public Discourse and Historical Representation in Contemporary Romania1......Page 196
PART 3. NATIONALIZING MAJORITIES AND MINORITIES......Page 206
The Idea of Independent Romanian National Economy in Transylvania at the Turn of the 20th Century......Page 208
Nationhood and Identity: Romanians and Hungarians in Transylvania......Page 226
Nationalizing Minorities and Homeland Politics: The Case of the Hungarians in Romania......Page 248
Can Democracy Work in Southeastern Europe? Ethnic Nationalism vs. Democratic Consolidation in Post-Communist Romania......Page 274
A F T E RWORD......Page 301
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 306
NOTES ON AUTHORS......Page 372