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No 30	Internal Colonialism in Austria-Hungary
Institution	Johns Hopkins University: Baltimore, MD 21218
Publication (Journal)	Ethnic and Racial Studies 2 no.3 (July 1979): 378-99
Published in	U.K., 1979
Language	English
Abstract	Strong ethnic tensions were present in Hungary and Transylvania under Hapsburg rule. These two regions were separated by Hapsburg rule after reconquest of the Ottoman Empire; both were areas with substantial ethnic diversity. In the late eighteenth century Hungary experienced administrative changes imposed by Austria which weakened the position of the Hungarian gentry, who then reacted by trying to restrengthen themselves at the expense of other ethnic groups. Transylvania was strongly affected by Austrian and Hungarian capitals in the nineteenth century. There was, however, ambiguity regarding of which nation it was a colony and which ethnic groups within Transylvania gained or lost by this development. Both cases differ substantially from those of the U.K.'s relations with Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, due largely to differing positions in the world economy occupied by the U.K. and by Austria-Hungary.
Availability	Szabo Ervin Library, Budapest
Discipline(s)	political sociology , political anthropology
Source(s)	fieldwork , survey

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