Volume X, Issue 2, 2016
July-December

Special issue on: Ethnicity in Numbers: the Official Censuses, their Ethnic Categories, and the State Identity Politics

Guest Editors: Alexander Pinwinkler and Pavel Kladiwa

Contents

Introduction

Alexander Pinwinkler – Commentary on the panel Ethnicity in Numbers: the Official Censuses, their Ethnic Categories, and the State Identity Politics, European Social Science History conference, Valencia, 30 March – 2 April 2016

Articles

Ewald Hiebl – National Identity between Assimilation and Autonomy in Austria and South Tyrol in the Mirror of the Census

Pavel Kladiwa – National Statistics in the Bohemian Lands 1880-2011: Factors Affecting the Setting of the Criteria and Methods Used by the Censuses

Petr Kadlec – Fundamental Aspects of the National Identification of Jews in the Bohemian Lands in the 1880–1930 Censuses

Martin Pekár, Nikola Regináčová – Between Demography and Politics: Changing Perceptions of Nationality of the Slovak Population in Censuses 1869 – 1930

György Kövér – “Statistical Assimilation” in the Hungarian Kingdom 1880-1910

Daniela Deteşan, Ela Cosma – Ethnicity, Nationality, and Statistics. The Romanians from the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Tsarist Empire 1848-1850)

Ioan Bolovan, Elena Crinela Holom, Marius Eppel – Ethnicity and Politics: Censuses in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Case Study: Transylvania, 1869-1910)

Book reviews

Fauve-Chamoux, Antoinette, Bolovan, Ioan and Sogner, Sølvi (Eds) (2016). A Global History of Historical Demography. Half a Century of Interdisciplinarity. Peter Lang: Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 698 pages (reviewed by Grażyna Liczbińska)

Szołtysek, Mikołaj (2015). Rethinking East-Central Europe: family systems and co-residence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Contexts and analyses. Peter Lang: Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 1105 pages (reviewed by Bogdan Crăciun)

von Lünen, Alexander, Travis, Charles (Eds) (2013). History and GIS. Epistemologies, Considerations and Reflections. Dordrecht, Springer Science & Business Media, 242 pages (reviewed by Cosmin Chiriac)