Profoundly National Yet Transboundary: The Tatra National Parks

Authors

  • Bianca Hoenig University of Basel, Switzerland

Abstract

Situated on the Polish-Slovak border, the Tatra Mountains are protected by two neighboring National Parks. The history of the parks, which began in the 1880s, is deeply marked by the situation of these mountains on an imperial, and subsequently national, borderland.

Author Biography

Bianca Hoenig, University of Basel, Switzerland

Bianca Hoenig is a research assistant at the chair for Russian and East European history at the University of Basel. She studied East European history and political science in Freiburg/Breisgau and Munich with stays in France, Poland, and the Czech Republic. She writes her dissertation about the Tatra Mountains in a transborder perspective. Her fields of interest include environmental and tourism history and the social and cultural history of Eastern Europe.

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Published

2014-11-17

Issue

2014

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Articles

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Copyright (c) 2014 CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Bianca Hoenig