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Transylvania, History and Reality
History of Transylvania
Author: Béla Köpeczi
Publisher: East European Monographs
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 898
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These volumes of a three-volume history of Transylvania are designed to present Transylvanian history in a European context and with due attention to Transylvania's links to Hungary, the Habsburg Empire, the Romanian Principalities, Turkey and other states of Europe. The comparative approach is also prominent in the presentation of Transylvania's internal affairs in that the authors address the history--demographic, economic, social, political and cultural--of the three major national groups: Romanian, Hungarian, and Saxon.
Dacia
Author: Ion Grumeza
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2009-05-16
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 076184466X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book tells the little known story of Dacia, the powerful and rich land that became Transylvania and Romania. This kingdom was once the cornerstone of Eastern Europe. By A.D. 1, Dacia was the third largest military power in Europe, after the Romans and Germans. Most historians mistook the Dacians for Sarmatians, Scythians, even Slavs. This book revives the Dacian history and contributes to our understanding of the region as it is today. The wars, economy, and traditions of this Transylvanian land permeate the geopolitics of today's Balkan countries. To understand what is happening today in Modern Europe, we need to return to the study of this area. This book provides the context for the invasions that molded the Balkan and Eastern European nations that continue to redraw their borders and impose ethnic domination on each other.
The Saxons of Transylvania
Author: Pascual Martínez
Publisher:
Published: 2019-10-21
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781999446833
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Saxons of Transylvania' documents a fading civilization with a mix of archival images, new photographs, illustrations and storytelling. In their second book photographed in Romania, Martínez + Sáez focus on ethnic German Saxons returning to Transylvania to preserve their distinct culture and heritage built over eight centuries. Indigenous to the region, their conflicted story is told through legend and history, and with current texts, revealing an uncertain future for what is now a dispersed group of people.
Paul Kovi's Transylvanian Cuisine
Author: Paul Kovi
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kovi first learned to know and love food in his native Transylvania, a region rich in folklore and food-lore. In this book, he has collected essays by Transylvanian writers, illustrating the history of Transylvanian cuisine and extolling the more poetic aspects of its cooking. Then he presents recipes collected from villages and hearths to rediscover the lost art of the original Transylvanian cooking and flavors.
Out of the Transylvania Night
Author: Aura Imbarus
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2012-08-14
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1936332205
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"I'd grown up in the land of TRANSYLVANIA, homeland to Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, and, worse, the Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu--who turned Romania into a land of gray-clad zombies who never dared to show their individuality, and where neighbors became informants, and the Securitate made people disappear," writes the author. "Daylight empowered the regime to encircle us like starved wolves, and so night had always been the time to steal a bit of freedom. As if bred into our Transylvanian blood, we were like vampires who came to life after sundown. I buried the family jewels and left my outpost to join the action . . . tonight Ceausescu would die!"Known for using stand-ins to pose for him, Aura doubts if it was even Ceausescu himself who was killed that night. Nevertheless, when her countrymen topple one of the most draconian regimes in the Soviet bloc, Aura Imbarus tells herself that life post-revolution will be different. But little in the country changes. With two pieces of luggage and a powerful dream, Aura and her new husband flee to America. Through sacrifice and hard work, the couple acquire the "American Dream"--but discover that straddling two cultures is much more complicated than they expect.
Between States
Author: Holly Case
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009-05-05
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0804787557
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the 2010 George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association. The struggle between Hungary and Romania for control of Transylvania seems at first sight a side-show in the story of the Nazi New Order and the Second World War. These allies of the Third Reich spent much of the war arguing bitterly over Transylvania's future, and Germany and Italy were drawn into their dispute to prevent it from spiraling into a regional war. But precisely as a result of this interaction, the story of the Transylvanian Question offers a new way into the history of how state leaders and national elites have interpreted what "Europe" means. Tucked into the folds of the Transylvanian Question's bizarre genealogy is a secret that no one ever tried to keep, but that has remained a secret nonetheless: small states matter. The perspective of small states puts the struggle for mastery among its Great Powers into a new perspective.
The Land Beyond the Forest
The Ethnic History of Transylvania
Author: Endre Haraszti
Publisher: Astor Park, Fla. : Danubian Press
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13:
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