An urban biography, Brody: A Galician Border City in the Long Nineteenth Century reconciles 150 years of the town s socioeconomic history with its cultural memory. The first comprehensive study of this city under Habsburg-Austrian rule, Borries Kuzmany advises against reading urban history solely through the national lens. Besides exploring Brody s extraordinary ethno-confessional structure Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians Kuzmany examines the interrelation between the city s geographical location at the imperial border, its standing as a key commercial hub in East-Central Europe, and its...