Background
Hitchins, Keith Arnold was born on April 2, 1931 in Schenectady, New York, United States. Son of Henry Arnold Hitchins and Lillian Mary Turrian.
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By mid-nineteenth century the movement for cultural and political self-determination of the Rumanians of Transylvania had attained a high degree of maturity and, at the same time, was entering a period of internal crisis. The Orthodox Church still stood at the center of national life, as it had for centuries, but now the paramount role of the clergy was effectively challenged by a dynamic class of lay intellectuals who were eager to set their people on a new, essentially secular, course to bring them abreast of the advanced nations of Europe. The dominant figure of the period was Andreiu Şaguna, bishop and later metropolitan of the Rumanian Orthodox Church. Although he equaled the intellectuals in devotion to the national cause, he carried forward the venerable practices of ecclesiastical leadership and upheld the primacy of religion in the life of the nation. The tension he and the intellectuals created motivated Rumanian national development for nearly a quarter century. The Rumanian experience has significance beyond the boundaries of Transylvania. Hitchins elucidates its connection to the complex process of national development that all the peoples of the Habsburg monarchy were undergoing, and suggests its relevance to contemporary Austrian policy toward national aspirations in general.
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This latest volume in the acclaimed Oxford History of Modern Europe series looks at the collapse of Communist power which has once again focused attention on the processes of nation-building in central and eastern Europe. In this comprehensive study, Keith Hitchins focuses on how Rumania's political and intellectual elites attempted to establish an independent state before the advent of Communist rule in 1947. It traces the efforts of the country's leaders to create the institutions of a modern state, to "Europeanize" without losing national identity, and to find ways of preserving independence in the international political and economic order dominated by the great powers. In his study, Hitchins emphasizes how Rumania's past history is essential to a clear understanding of its complex present and future.
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Hitchins, Keith Arnold was born on April 2, 1931 in Schenectady, New York, United States. Son of Henry Arnold Hitchins and Lillian Mary Turrian.
AB, Union College, Schenectady, New York, 1952. AM, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1953. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964.
Doctor (honorary), University Cluj, Romania, 1991. Doctor (honorary), University Sibiu, Romania, 1993. Doctor (honorary), University Alba Iulia, Romania, 2001.
Doctor (honorary), University Targu Mures, 2005.
Instructor, assistant professor History Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1958—1965. Assistant professor History Rice University, Houston, 1965—1967. Associate professor, professor History University Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, since 1967.
Consultant Council for International Exchange Scholars, 1970—1979. Consultant Joint committee on Eastern Europe American Council of Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council, 1982—1989.
( By mid-nineteenth century the movement for cultural an...)
(This latest volume in the acclaimed Oxford History of Mod...)
( Long before Rumania existed as a sovereign state, Ruma...)
Member of Romanian Academy (honorary).