"The book analyzes Transylvania's role in modernity and modernism in juxtaposition with coloniality and inter-imperiality. It does so through an interrogation of the main themes in Liviu Rebreanu's 1920 novel "Ion"--ranging from the land question and capitalist integration through antisemitism and Roma enslavement up to multilingualism, gender relations and religion"--

Introduction
1. The Face of Land: Peasants, Property and the Land Question
2. Transylvania in the World-System: Capitalist Integration, Peripheralization, Antisemitism
3. The longue durée of Enslavement: Extracting Labor from Romani Music
4. (Dis)Counting Languages: Transylvanian Interglotism between Hugo Meltzl and Liviu Rebreanu
5. The Inter-imperial Dowry Plot: Nationalism, Women's Labor, Violence against Women
6. Feminist Whims: Women's Education in an Inter-imperial Framework
7. God Is the New Church: The Ethnicization of Religion

Anca Parvulescu is a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Laughter and The Traffic in Women's Work.
Manuela Boatc¿ is a professor at the Institute of Sociology and Head of School of the Global Studies Program at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She is the author of Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism and co-editor of Decolonizing European Sociology.