First published in German in 2011, based on a revised version of the author's doctoral dissertation, with title Brody : eine galizische Grenzstadt im langen 19. Jahrhundert.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Success Story (1630–1815) -- Stagnation and Crisis (1815–1914) -- Austria’s Most Jewish City -- The Christian Minorities -- Religion—Language—Nation. The School: A Multicultural Lebenswelt -- Border City -- Placing Brody -- Places of Memory in and of Brody -- Conclusion: Brody—A Story of Failed Success? -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- Index of Place Names -- Thematic Index.

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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, Börries 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 position as a major springboard for the dissemination of the Haskalah in Galicia and the Russian Empire. After delving into the contradictory perceptions of Brody in travelogues, fiction and memory books, Kuzmany uses contemporary and historical photographs to provide an illustrated walking tour of this now Ukrainian town.

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