Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe PDF
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Map Men TransnaTionaL L ives and deaThs of geographers in The Making of easT CenTraL eUrope Map Men Steven Seegel The Univers iTy of ChiCago press ChiCago and London The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2018 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles and reviews. For more information, contact the University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637. Published 2018 Printed in the United States of America 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 1 2 3 4 5 isBn-1 3: 978-0 -2 26-4 3849-8 (cloth) isBn-1 3: 978-0 -2 26-4 3852-8 (e-b ook) doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226438528.001.0001 Library of Congress Cataloging-i n-P ublication Data Names: Seegel, Steven, author. Title: Map men : transnational lives and deaths of geogra- phers in the making of East Central Europe / Steven Seegel. Description: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifers: LCCN 2017034931 | ISBN 9780226438498 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226438528 (e-b ook) Subjects: LCSH: Geographers—E urope, Central— Biography. | Geographers—E urope, Eastern—B iography. | Geographers— United States—B iography. | Penck, Albrecht, 1858–1 945. | Romer, Eugeniusz, 1871–1 954. | Rudnyts’kyi, Stepan, 1877– 1937. | Bowman, Isaiah, 1878–1 950. | Teleki, Pál, gróf, 1879–1 941. Classifcation: LCC G67 .S44 2018 | DDC 910.92/2437—d c23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017034931 ♾ This paper meets the requirements of ansi/niso Z39.48-1 992 (Permanence of Paper). Biographies are like seashells; not much can be learned from them about the mollusk that once lived inside them. Czesław Miłosz, Miłosz’s ABCs (2001) I like maps, because they lie. Because they give no access to the vicious truth. Because great-h eartedly, good-n aturedly they spread before me a world not of this world. Wisława Szymborska, “Map” (2011) Contents Acknowledgments · xi Author’s Note · xv Introduction · 1 Argument: A Transnational Love Story · 2 A Five- Headed Cast: Defning Map Men · 4 Epistolary Geography · 6 Triptych · 8 Chapter ONE: Professor Penck’s Pupils · 11 Saxony, 1858 · 12 West Galicia, 1871 · 17 East Galicia, 1877 · 22 Ontario-M ichigan, 1878 · 27 Budapest-T ransylvania, 1879 · 34 Chapter TWO: Objectivity · 41 WWI Collisions · 42 Pan-A merican Careerist · 47 Out of Eurasia · 49 Fantasy Easts · 52 Apotheosis · 57 Paprika Geography · 64 Chapter THREE: Courtiers · 71 In Search of Patrons · 72 Among the Defeated · 80 vii Rump State · 82 Melotrauma · 86 Victors in Arms · 89 New Worlds, New Men · 93 Strings to Pull · 97 Scenes from a Breakup · 102 Chapter FOUR: Beruf · 107 Vienna-P rague-K harkov · 108 Bodily Work · 112 Of Glaciers and Men · 116 An American in Mosul · 118 1925: Volks- und Kulturboden · 121 A Sort of Heimat-c oming · 125 Revision Institutionalized · 127 Illusions · 133 Chapter FIVE: A League of Their Own · 139 Wissenschaft Wars · 140 Asymmetry · 143 Third Reich · 146 Knocking on Europe’s Door · 148 Lives of a Salesman · 154 Boys to Men · 160 Children of Solovki · 163 Chapter SIX: Ex- Homes · 165 Old Worlds · 166 Calling Dr. Love · 171 You Can’t Go Heimat Again · 176 Revenge · 180 Suicide · 183 Manpower · 187 Contemplation · 194 Chapter SEVEN: Twilight · 201 A Drive to the East · 202 “Before Death Plucks My Ear” · 205 Repatriation, in Place · 206 viii · Contents A Multigenerational Afair · 209 Freunde und Feinde · 212 Afterlives · 216 Conclusion · 225 Abbreviations · 233 Notes · 235 Bibliography · 283 Index · 339 Plates appear after page 224 Contents · ix
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