Anca Parvulescu is a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Laughter and The Traffic in Women's Work.Manuela Boatcă is a professor at the Institute of Sociology and Head of School of the Global Studies Program at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She is the author of Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism and co-editor of Decolonizing European Sociology.

• Introduction1. The Face of Land: Peasants, Property and the Land Question2. Transylvania in the World-System: Capitalist Integration, Peripheralization, Antisemitism3. The longue durée of Enslavement: Extracting Labor from Romani Music4. (Dis)Counting Languages: Transylvanian Interglotism between Hugo Meltzl and Liviu Rebreanu5. The Inter-imperial Dowry Plot: Nationalism, Women's Labor, Violence against Women6. Feminist Whims: Women's Education in an Inter-imperial Framework7. God Is the New Church: The Ethnicization of Religion

Creolizing the Modern delivers. This book's crowning achievement is its insertion of East Central Europe, with all its particularities, in the historical development of capitalist modernity. [U]nraveling the threads of its predicament can teach us much about our world. Creolizing the Modern does precisely so.(Miloš Jovanović, Journal of World-Systems Research) Creolizing the Modern is one of the most important books published in the last years. It is an outstanding book that deserves to be read and discussed widely.(José Itzigsohn, Journal of World-Systems Research) Innovative, boldly interdisciplinary, and conceptually ambitious, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă's Creolizing the Modern defies easy classification.(Austrian History Yearbook)

Anca Parvulescu is a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Laughter and The Traffic in Women's Work.Manuela Boatcă is a professor at the Institute of Sociology and Head of School of the Global Studies Program at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She is the author of Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism and co-editor of Decolonizing European Sociology.

• Introduction1. The Face of Land: Peasants, Property and the Land Question2. Transylvania in the World-System: Capitalist Integration, Peripheralization, Antisemitism3. The longue durée of Enslavement: Extracting Labor from Romani Music4. (Dis)Counting Languages: Transylvanian Interglotism between Hugo Meltzl and Liviu Rebreanu5. The Inter-imperial Dowry Plot: Nationalism, Women's Labor, Violence against Women6. Feminist Whims: Women's Education in an Inter-imperial Framework7. God Is the New Church: The Ethnicization of Religion

Creolizing the Modern delivers. This book's crowning achievement is its insertion of East Central Europe, with all its particularities, in the historical development of capitalist modernity. [U]nraveling the threads of its predicament can teach us much about our world. Creolizing the Modern does precisely so.(Miloš Jovanović, Journal of World-Systems Research) Creolizing the Modern is one of the most important books published in the last years. It is an outstanding book that deserves to be read and discussed widely.(José Itzigsohn, Journal of World-Systems Research) Innovative, boldly interdisciplinary, and conceptually ambitious, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă's Creolizing the Modern defies easy classification.(Austrian History Yearbook)

Anca Parvulescu is a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Laughter and The Traffic in Women's Work.Manuela Boatcă is a professor at the Institute of Sociology and Head of School of the Global Studies Program at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She is the author of Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism and co-editor of Decolonizing European Sociology.

• Introduction1. The Face of Land: Peasants, Property and the Land Question2. Transylvania in the World-System: Capitalist Integration, Peripheralization, Antisemitism3. The longue durée of Enslavement: Extracting Labor from Romani Music4. (Dis)Counting Languages: Transylvanian Interglotism between Hugo Meltzl and Liviu Rebreanu5. The Inter-imperial Dowry Plot: Nationalism, Women's Labor, Violence against Women6. Feminist Whims: Women's Education in an Inter-imperial Framework7. God Is the New Church: The Ethnicization of Religion

Creolizing the Modern delivers. This book's crowning achievement is its insertion of East Central Europe, with all its particularities, in the historical development of capitalist modernity. [U]nraveling the threads of its predicament can teach us much about our world. Creolizing the Modern does precisely so.(Miloš Jovanović, Journal of World-Systems Research) Creolizing the Modern is one of the most important books published in the last years. It is an outstanding book that deserves to be read and discussed widely.(José Itzigsohn, Journal of World-Systems Research) Innovative, boldly interdisciplinary, and conceptually ambitious, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă's Creolizing the Modern defies easy classification.(Austrian History Yearbook)