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Galicia: A Multicultured Land
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Christopher Hann and Paul Robert Magocsi, eds. Galicia: A Multicultural Land, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 259. Illustrations, index. Paper.
"Galicia nostalgia"-that passion tor remnants of the short-lived Polish-Ukrainian province of Habsburg memory-seems to be in vogue these days among scholars and contemporary actors alike. But of what lasting significance is a geo-political entity that existed in its most recent incarnation for 136 short years and collapsed w...
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