Cooperative networks in Transylvania belonging to Hungary and Romania

The book presents an interdisciplinary and comparative study of Transylvanian economic history with special regard on cooperative networks developed in this area that belonged to Austria-Hungary (1867-1918) and to Romania (1918-1940). This comprehensive interdisciplinary approach is useful in restoring the economic structures and social networks, to critically understand the process of nation-building or the character of the "nation-affirmed", for the description of the modernization process, not only on cultural, but especially on the economic field, something that rarely has been revealed in traditional history-writing. In the first chapter we present the development of financial-economic-cooperative networks in Austria-Hungary including Transylvania before the First World War, the chapter ending with conclusions on this period. In chapter two we continue the presentation of financial-economic development of cooperative networks in the interwar period still characterized by specific national affiliations in the Kingdom of Romania, the chapter ending with a review on the interwar period.