Rumania 1866-1947 by Keith Hitchins - 9780198221265

Rumania 1866-1947Author(s): Keith Hitchins\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780198221265, 978-0198221265\nSynopsis\nFrom the mid-nineteenth century until the Second World War, the energies of Rumanian political and intellectual lites were absorbed by the building of their nation. In this comprehensive and scholarly study Keith Hitchins traces these complex processes and explores how Rumania's leaders attempted to transform the ideology of modern nationhood into strong political, economic, and social institutions and to find ways of preserving independence in an international political and economic order dominated by the great powers.\n As the new Rumania took shape, the threads of historical continuity remained strikingly evident: in government a strong administrative centralization prevailed, despite the maturing of parliamentary institutions and the diversity of political expression; the national econ.