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Eastern, East-Central and South-Eastern European Cities, 1850-2000 (2022)
Book Chapter
Prokopovych, M. (in press). Eastern, East-Central and South-Eastern European Cities, 1850-2000. In D. Brantz, & G. Sonkoly (Eds.), Cambridge Urban History of Europe. Cambridge University Press

This chapter delineates eastern, east-central and south-eastern Europe, highlights its problematic and shifting geographies for the study of cities, and argues for the need to see the region ‘between the Baltic and the Adriatic’ as one whole for the... Read More about Eastern, East-Central and South-Eastern European Cities, 1850-2000.

The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary: Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century (2021)
Book
Rampley, M., Prokopovych, M., & Veszpremi, N. (2021). The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary: Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century. Penn State University Press

This important critical study of the history of public art museums in Austria-Hungary explores their place in the wider history of European museums and collecting, their role as public institutions, and their involvement in the complex cultural polit... Read More about The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary: Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Semperian Trajectories: Architectural Development of Design Museums (2020)
Book Chapter
Prokopovych, M. (2020). Semperian Trajectories: Architectural Development of Design Museums. In Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire (91-123). Routledge

This chapter analyzes a critical reassessment of that Semperian tradition through analysis of museum architecture, paying particular attention to the important studies by Rebecca Houze. Design museums also served as architectural models for each othe... Read More about Semperian Trajectories: Architectural Development of Design Museums.

Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire: Museums of Design, Industry and the Applied Arts (2020)
Book
Rampley, M., Prokopovych, M., & Veszpremi, N. (2020). Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire: Museums of Design, Industry and the Applied Arts. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003003625

Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire is a study of museums of design and applied arts in Austria-Hungary from 1864 to 1914. The Museum for Art and Industry (now the Museum of Applied Arts) as well as its design school occu... Read More about Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire: Museums of Design, Industry and the Applied Arts.

Educating the Public: Schools of Design and Applied Arts as Educational and Reform Institutions (2020)
Book Chapter
Prokopovych, M. (2020). Educating the Public: Schools of Design and Applied Arts as Educational and Reform Institutions. In M. Rampley, M. Prokopovych, & N. Veszprémi (Eds.), Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire (124-150). Routledge

The role of the museums as depositories of knowledge for professional education in the provinces was far from negligible. Many of the institutions involved in founding museums also actively promoted design education themselves. Alongside museums, sch... Read More about Educating the Public: Schools of Design and Applied Arts as Educational and Reform Institutions.

Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire (2019)
Book
Prokopovych, M., Bethke, C., & Scheer, T. (Eds.). (2019). Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire. Brill Academic Publishers

The Habsburg Empire often features in scholarship as a historical example of how language diversity and linguistic competence were essential to the functioning of the imperial state. Focusing critically on the urban-rural divide, on the importance of... Read More about Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire.

Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire: Foreword from the Editors (2019)
Book Chapter
Prokopovych, M., Bethke, C., & Scheer, T. (2019). Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire: Foreword from the Editors. In M. Prokopovych, C. Bethke, & T. Scheer (Eds.), Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire (1-11). Brill Academic Publishers

The Habsburg Empire often features in scholarship as a historical example of how language diversity and linguistic competence were essential to the functioning of the imperial state. Focusing critically on the urban-rural divide, on the importance of... Read More about Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire: Foreword from the Editors.

The City and the Museum: Cracow's Collections and Their Publics in the Long Nineteenth Century (2018)
Journal Article
Prokopovych, M. (2018). The City and the Museum: Cracow's Collections and Their Publics in the Long Nineteenth Century. Austrian History Yearbook, 49, 166-186. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0067237818000140

It is generally acknowledged that museums were an essential part of the national project in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Europe—and some retain this function even today. Classic works in nationalism studies, such as Eric Hobsbawm's, have h... Read More about The City and the Museum: Cracow's Collections and Their Publics in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Celebrating Hungary? Johann Strauss's Der Zigeunerbaron and the Press in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna and Budapest (2017)
Journal Article
Prokopovych, M. (2017). Celebrating Hungary? Johann Strauss's Der Zigeunerbaron and the Press in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna and Budapest. Austrian Studies, 25, 118-135. https://doi.org/10.5699/austrianstudies.25.2017.0118

Preceded by decades of ‘Magyar mania’, the 1885 world premiere of Johann Strauss's ‘Hungarian’ operetta Der Zigeunerbaron in Vienna was an overwhelming success. However, its reception showed a discrepancy in how the monarchy's two nominally ruling na... Read More about Celebrating Hungary? Johann Strauss's Der Zigeunerbaron and the Press in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna and Budapest.

Transience, Overseas Migration and the Modern European City. Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Cities and Overseas Migration in the Long Nineteenth Century’ (2016)
Journal Article
Prokopovych, M., & Feys, T. (2016). Transience, Overseas Migration and the Modern European City. Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Cities and Overseas Migration in the Long Nineteenth Century’. Journal of migration history, 2(2), 209-222. https://doi.org/10.1163/23519924-00202001

Migration is one of key factors to the existence of which we owe the emergence of the modern urban condition that continues to shape the life of large populations today. Precisely the same reasons that generated great urban growth of European cities... Read More about Transience, Overseas Migration and the Modern European City. Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Cities and Overseas Migration in the Long Nineteenth Century’.