The STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI issue article summary

The summary of the selected article appears at the bottom of the page. In order to get back to the contents of the issue this article belongs to you have to access the link from the title. In order to see all the articles of the archive which have as author/co-author one of the authors mentioned below, you have to access the link from the author's name.

 
       
         
    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 1 / 2005  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEWS - A NATION DISCOVERED. ROMANIAN INTELLECTUALS IN TRANSYLVANIA AND THE IDEA OF NATION. BY KEITH HITCHINS. BUCHAREST: ENCYCLOPAEDIC PUBLISHING HOUSE, 1999. THE IDENTITY OF ROMANIA. BY KEITH HITCHINS. BUCHAREST: ENCYCLOPAEDIC PUBL..

Authors:  .
 
       
         
  Abstract:   The volume “The Identity of Romania” contains 210 pages and has nine chapters of which only the first four refer to the shaping and building of the Romanian identity. The other work, “A Nation Discovered” dedicates its seven chapters to this aspect. The authors strongly believes that the Romanian identity cannot be limited just to one myth, such as the Dacian-Roman continuity, for example, or to a single image, that of the devout Orthodox peasant, or not even to one century. As philosopher Lucian Blaga also remarked, we can speak about several types of Romania, that is about “consecutive types of Romania”: the Romania of the XVIIIth century, that of 1840, that of the interwar period, and, finally, the one of the postwar communist period. In other words, each of these types, which alternated in time, is a distinct step in the process of maturation of the Romanians’ identity and their national consciousness. Hitchins considers that, in the case of the Romanians, we can speak about several steps in the evolution of the idea of nation: the period 1700-1760, the one between 1770-1820, and period between 1830-1840.  
         
     
         
         
      Back to previous page