Matica and Beyond

Dr. Krisztina Lajosi is a Senior Lecturer in Modern European Culture at the Department of European Studies of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Her research area is nationalism and transnationalism studies, focusing on the intersections between history, media and political thought.Dr. Andreas Stynen is postdoctoral assistant at KU Leuven, Research Group for Cultural History since 1750. Mainly studying the history of urbanism and national movements, he has also published on musical culture, transatlantic migration and practices of remembrance.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionJoep Leerssen1 The Buda University Press and National Awakenings in Habsburg AustriaZsuzsanna Varga2 The Matice ČeskáMagdaléna Pokorná3 The Slovak Matica, Its Precursors and Its LegacyBenjamin Bossaert and Dagmar Kročanová4 The Matica in an Ethnic-Regional Context: Sorbian Lusatia and Czech Silesia in ComparisonMiloš Řezník5 The Slovenian Matica: The ‘Foundation-Stone’Marijan Dović6 Framing a Regional Matica, from Dalmatian to CroatianDaniel Baric7 Macedonian Societies in the Balkan ContextLiljana Gushevska8 Language, Cultural Associations, and the Origins of Galician Nationalism, 1840–1918Xosé M. Núñez Seixas and Alfonso Iglesias Amorín9 Félibrige, or the Impossible Occitan NationPhilippe Martel10 Educational, Scholarly, and Literary Societies in Dutch-speaking Regions, 1766–1886Jan Rock11 A Century of Change: The Eisteddfod and Welsh Cultural NationalismMarion Löffler12 “Racy of the Soil”: Young Ireland and the Cultural Production of NationhoodRoisín Higgins13 Competing National Movements: School Associations and Cultural Nationalism in the Baltic RegionJörg Hackmann14 The Galician-Ruthenian Matica (1848–1939)Iryna Orlevych15 Tatar Cultural and Educational Organizations and Charities: Muslim Self-Organization in the Russian EmpireDiliara M. UsmanovaAfterword: The Maticas in a World of EmpiresAlexei MillerIndex

"The Matica and Beyond offers a detailed look at the concrete and modest beginnings of the Central European national movements that only took political form as nation-states after 1918 (or in some cases only after 1989). Its comparisons with the experience of marginalized nationalgroups in Britain, France, and Spain are particularly constructive, especially at a time when the future of a unified Europe no longer seems self-evident". Charles Sebaston, in Sciendo 68 (4), 2020. "This volume is important on several different levels. It contributes to the discussion on the history of nationalism in East-Central Europe. It also provides the cases of the other non-dominant national movements across Europe, thus giving the readers a chance to draw comparisons and conclusions themselves. The potential for comparison is, in fact, one of the strongest characteristics of this volume". Duan J. Ljuboja, in Slavonica, 26:1, pp. 80-83. "The Matica and Beyond offers us the opportunity to get better acquainted with the functioning of these institutions in the 19th century when they did play a crucial role in society and thus enables us to reassess their place in contemporary society more objectively and responsibly". Eva Palkoviov, January 2021.