Habsburg Lemberg: Architecture, Public Space, and Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772-1914

by Markian Prokopovych

When Austria annexed Galicia during the first partition of Poland in 1772, the province's capital, Lemberg, was a decaying Baroque town. By the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Lemberg had become a booming city with a modern urban and, at the same time, distinctly Habsburg flavor. In the process of the "long" nineteenth century, both Lemberg's appearance and the use of public space changed remarkably. The city center was transformed into a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557535108
• ISBN13: 9781557535108
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 357 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"