,,From Borderland to Burgenland is a wonderful achievement. In eight expertly translated chapters, each beautifully illustrated and extensively referenced, Ferenc Jankó takes us on an absorbing journey into the contested historical geographies of a fascinating region. Our companions are a diverse and disputatious cast of teachers and tourists, artists and photographers, scientists and surveyors, and (perhaps most importantly) geographers and historians, all brilliantly analyzed in these elegantly written pages. From their fractious debates about languages and landscapes, societies and economies, and identities and cultures emerged a powerful idea of Burgenland as a 'natural' border region, an exemplification of the complex history and geography of Central Europe in the 20th century." --Mike Heffernan "In this work Ferenc Jankó analyses the geographical discovery of the geopolitically extremely interesting federal province, Burgenland, which was incorporated into the Republic of Austria in 1921. The geographical research was carried out not only by geographers, but also by representatives of other disciplines and local historians. The book deals with the practice of geographical research, the respective perspectives and careers of the researchers and how these have also contributed to the formation of Burgenland's identity in times of political changes from the end of the Habsburg Empire to the time of National Socialism." --Petra Svatek.