The politics of cultural retreat

Iryna Vushko

The politics of cultural retreat : imperial bureaucracy in Austrian Galicia, 1772-1867 /Iryna Vushko - New Haven : Yale University Press , 2015 - xii,311 p. ;24 cm.

Bureaucratic enlightenment and Galicia --
Civilizers at work, 1772-1794 --
The Napoleonic test, 1792-1815 --
Between Vienna, St. Petersburg, and Warsaw, 1826-1832 --
Austrian bureaucracy and Polish aristocracy --
Literature, politics, and Galician Ruthenians --
Administering the Jews --
Bureaucracy and revolutions, 1846-1848 --
Conclusion: 1848, 1867, and beyond.


This study recounts how an international cohort of Austrian officials administered Galicia from the time of its annexation from Poland-Lithuania in 1772 up until the beginning of Polish autonomy in 1867. The author examines the interactions between these German-speaking bureaucrats and the local Galician population of Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews, and reveals how Enlightenment-inspired theories of modernity and supra-national uniformity essentially backfired, ultimately bringing about results that starkly contradicted the original intentions and ideals of the imperial governors

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Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- Politics and government -- 19th century.--Bureaucracy

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