Prasa prowincjonalna w badaniach nad miastami galicyjskimi doby autonomicznej. Geneza – charakterystyka – interpretacja

Abstract

The 19th century was the age of great development of press in general and in Polish teritories as well. Even though the Russian partition territory residents contributed the most, it was Galicia that was somehow exceptional in that matter. The press-creating process was dominated, which should come as no surprise, the residents of Cracow and of the capital – Lviv. Nevertheless, the activity of the provincial Galicia should not be underestimated. For those regions, local newspapers were on the one hand a substitute of the great “Austro-Hungarian world” and on the other hand defined their local identity. Now, regional periodicals not only the involvement of then provincials in the intellectual sphere, but most importantly become magnificent and vast material for research. Even though those sources are usually scattered and hard to obtain, it is still impossible to conduct microhistoric research without the use of provincial press.