Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Joep Leerssen 1 The Buda University Press and National Awakenings in Habsburg Austria Zsuzsanna Varga 2 The Matice ceská Magdaléna Pokorná 3 The Slovak Matica, Its Precursors and Its Legacy Benjamin Bossaert and Dagmar Krocanová 4 The Matica in an Ethnic-Regional Context: Sorbian Lusatia and Czech Silesia in Comparison Milos rezník 5 The Slovenian Matica: The 'Foundation-Stone' Marijan Dovic 6 Framing a Regional Matica, from Dalmatian to Croatian Daniel Baric 7 Macedonian Societies in the Balkan Context Liljana Gushevska 8 Language, Cultural Associations, and the Origins of Galician Nationalism, 1840-1918 Xosé M. Núñez Seixas and Alfonso Iglesias Amorín 9 Félibrige, or the Impossible Occitan Nation Philippe Martel 10 Educational, Scholarly, and Literary Societies in Dutch-speaking Regions, 1766-1886 Jan Rock 11 A Century of Change: The Eisteddfod and Welsh Cultural Nationalism Marion Löffler 12 "Racy of the Soil": Young Ireland and the Cultural Production of Nationhood Roisín Higgins 13 Competing National Movements: School Associations and Cultural Nationalism in the Baltic Region Jörg Hackmann 14 The Galician-Ruthenian Matica (1848-1939) Iryna Orlevych 15 Tatar Cultural and Educational Organizations and Charities: Muslim Self-Organization in the Russian Empire Diliara M. Usmanova Afterword: The Maticas in a World of Empires Alexei Miller Index.