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The Dinosaur Baron of Transylvania
Scientific American, 2011The article discusses Franz Nopcsa, the baron of Szacsal in Transylvania, and his contributions to the field of paleontology. Nopsca published over 100 papers on fossils in which he argued that dinosaurs from central Europe such as Magyarosaurus and Telmatosaurus were small due to island-dwarfing, pioneered the use of histology, the analysis of the ...
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History of the Present, 2020
AbstractThis article analyzes the differences and overlaps between the dynamics of coloniality and inter-imperiality that have shaped Transylvania since the sixteenth century vis-à-vis neighboring European peripheries and shifting cores, zooming in on how the tensions between different modes of colonial and imperial rule play out in rural settings.
Manuela Boatcă, Anca Parvulescu
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AbstractThis article analyzes the differences and overlaps between the dynamics of coloniality and inter-imperiality that have shaped Transylvania since the sixteenth century vis-à-vis neighboring European peripheries and shifting cores, zooming in on how the tensions between different modes of colonial and imperial rule play out in rural settings.
Manuela Boatcă, Anca Parvulescu
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Transylvania in the World-System
2022This chapter looks into the integration of Transylvania into a structurally unequal capitalist world economy. The notion of inter-imperiality highlights the fact that the agent of capitalist integration is a series of imperial and state formations, alongside a variety of other heterogeneous actors, such as religious institutions. The chapter elaborates
Anca Parvulescu, Manuela Boatcă
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Microbe Magazine, 2014
For many of us, Transylvania is best known as the homeland of Bram Stoker's famous character, the vampire Count Dracula, who lived in a remote castle in the Carpathian Mountains. The Irish author's Gothic horror novel appeared in 1897, but it was not until 1914, two years after Stoker died, that the short story Dracula's Guest appeared in print.
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For many of us, Transylvania is best known as the homeland of Bram Stoker's famous character, the vampire Count Dracula, who lived in a remote castle in the Carpathian Mountains. The Irish author's Gothic horror novel appeared in 1897, but it was not until 1914, two years after Stoker died, that the short story Dracula's Guest appeared in print.
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Armenian Townscapes in Transylvania
2018This volume is the first to compare the urban development of four Armenian colonies in Transylvania (Romania): Gherla, Dumbrăveni, Gheorgheni and Frumoasa from the 18th until the first decades of the 20th century. Among them, Gherla is the most frequently cited example in connection with municipal construction.
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