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Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe

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An edition of Map Men (2018)

Map Men

Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe

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More than just colorful clickbait or pragmatic city grids, maps are often deeply emotional tales: of political projects gone wrong, budding relationships that failed, and countries that vanished. In Map Men, Steven Seegel takes us through some of these historical dramas with a detailed look at the maps that made and unmade the world of East Central Europe through a long continuum of world war and revolution. As a collective biography of five prominent geographers between 1870 and 1950—Albrecht Penck, Eugeniusz Romer, Stepan Rudnyts’kyi, Isaiah Bowman, and Count Pál Teleki—Map Men reexamines the deep emotions, textures of friendship, and multigenerational sagas behind these influential maps.

Taking us deep into cartographical archives, Seegel re-creates the public and private worlds of these five mapmakers, who interacted with and influenced one another even as they played key roles in defining and redefining borders, territories, nations­—and, ultimately, the interconnection of the world through two world wars. Throughout, he examines the transnational nature of these processes and addresses weighty questions about the causes and consequences of the world wars, the rise of Nazism and Stalinism, and the reasons East Central Europe became the fault line of these world-changing developments.

At a time when East Central Europe has surged back into geopolitical consciousness, Map Men offers a timely and important look at the historical origins of how the region was defined—and the key people who helped define it.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Page XI
Author’s Note Page XV
Introduction Page 1
Argument: A Transnational Love Story Page 2
A Five-Headed Cast: Defining Map Men Page 4
Epistolary Geography Page 6
Triptych Page 8
Chapter 1: Professor Penck’s Pupils Page 11
Saxony, 1858 Page 12
West Galicia, 1871 Page 17
East Galicia, 1877 Page 22
Ontario-Michigan, 1878 Page 27
Budapest-Transylvania, 1879 Page 34
Chapter 2: Objectivity Page 41
WWI Collisions Page 42
Pan-American Careerist Page 47
Out of Eurasia Page 49
Fantasy Easts Page 52
Apotheosis Page 57
Paprika Geography Page 64
Chapter 3: Courtiers Page 71
In Search of Patrons Page 72
Among the Defeated Page 80
Rump State Page 82
Melotrauma Page 86
Victors in Arms Page 89
New Worlds, New Men Page 93
Strings to Pull Page 97
Scenes from a Breakup Page 102
Chapter 4: Beruf
Vienna-Prague-Kharkov Page 108
Bodily Work Page 112
Of Glaciers and Men Page 116
An American in Mosul Page 118
1925: Volks- und Kulturboden Page 121
A Sort of Heimat-coming Page 125
Revision Institutionalized Page 127
Illusions Page 133
Chapter 5: A League of Their Own Page 139
Wissenschaft Wars Page 140
Asymmetry Page 143
Third Reich Page 146
Knocking on Europe’s Door Page 148
Lives of a Salesman Page 154
Boys to Men Page 160
Children of Solovki Page 163
Chapter 6: Ex-Homes Page 165
Old Worlds Page 166
Calling Dr. Love Page 171
You Can’t Go Heimat Again Page 176
Revenge Page 180
Suicide Page 183
Manpower Page 187
Contemplation Page 194
Chapter 7: Twilight Page 201
A Drive to the East Page 202
“Before Death Plucks My Ear” Page 205
Repatriation, in Place Page 206
A Multigenerational Affair Page 209
Freunde und Feinde Page 212
Afterlives Page 216
Conclusion Page 225
Appendix
Abbreviations Page 233
Notes Page 235
Bibliography Page 283
Index Page 339

Edition Notes

Source title: Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe

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Chicago, Illinois, USA

Classifications

Library of Congress
G67.S44 2018

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Pagination
xv, 346 p., [4] c. di tav. ill.
Number of pages
320

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27371651M
ISBN 10
022643849X
ISBN 13
9780226438498
OCLC/WorldCat
1153188810

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