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How architecture was understood and interpreted by scholars of different ethnicity and public agenda.
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The article critically examines several national historical traditions which offered subjective and distorted visions of the city history due to being influenced by nationalism.
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The article is equally critical of superficial assumptions of Lemberg serving as “crossroads of civilizations” and “little Vienna of the East,” which often overlooked significant local phenomena that evolved independently from Viennese or other influence. In arguing against these simplistic assumptions, this paper suggests an alternative, syncretic approach that combines entangled history and a careful treatment of the ethnic dimension in Lemberg's history.
Professor Markian Prokopovych
Durham University
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This page is a summary of: Lemberg (Lwów, L'viv) Architecture, 1772–1918: If Not the Little Vienna of the East, or the National Bastion, What Else?, East Central Europe, January 2009, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/187633009x411502.
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