How are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality entangled? Bridging the humanities and social sciences, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă provide innovative decolonial perspectives that aim to creolize modernity and the modern world-system. Historical Transylvania, at the intersection of the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, offers the platform for their multi-level reading of the main themes in Liviu Rebreanu's 1920 novel Ion . Topics range from the question of the region's capitalist integration to antisemitism and the enslavement of Roma to multilingualism, gender relations, and religion. Creolizing the Modern develops a comparative method for engaging with areas of the world that have inherited multiple, conflicting imperial and anti-imperial histories. Creolizing the Modern delivers. This book's crowning achievement is its insertion of East Central Europe, with all its particularities, in the historical development of capitalist modernity. [U]nraveling the threads of its predicament can teach us much about our world. Creolizing the Modern does precisely so. ― Miloš Jovanović, Journal of World-Systems Research Creolizing the Modern is one of the most important books published in the last years. It is an outstanding book that deserves to be read and discussed widely. ― José Itzigsohn, Journal of World-Systems Research Innovative, boldly interdisciplinary, and conceptually ambitious, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă's Creolizing the Modern defies easy classification. ― Austrian History Yearbook This exciting and innovative work challenges many geographic and scholarly boundaries. By extending the multilayered concept of creolization to the European periphery, it interrogates critical notions in postcolonial and decolonial thought. Drawing on literary, sociological and historical analysis, Transylvania becomes a site for investigating the inter-imperiality of colonial and post-colonial existence, linking it to colonial projects in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. In so doing, Transylvania and by extension Central and Eastern Europe become eloquent representations of the European periphery and integrated into larger global discussions. -- Rhoda Reddock, Professor Emerita, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine 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 Boatcă 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 .