{"product_id":"multicultural-cities-of-the-habsburg-empire-1880-1914-imagined-communities-and-conflictual-encounters-9789633862896","title":"Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers a comparative analysis of the societal, ethnic, and cultural diversity of twelve cities in the last decades of the Habsburg Monarchy. The following cities are discussed (by their current names): Arad, Bratislava, Brno, Chernivtsi, Lviv, Oradea, Rijeka, Sarajevo, Subotica, Timioara, Trieste, and Zagreb. This selection aims to counter the disproportionate attention that the largest cities in the empire receive. By focusing on everyday life--associations, schools, economy, and municipal politics--the book escapes from the idealization of the monarchy as a paradise of peaceful multiculturalism as well as from the exaggeration of the conflicts. The author claims that the world of the Habsburg cities was a dynamic space where many models coexisted and created vitality, emulation, and conflict. Modernization brought about the dissolution of old structures but also mobility, the progress of education, the explosion of associative life, and a constantly growing cultural offering.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Tables\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNote on the spelling of city names\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter I. MIDSIZE CITIES IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMunicipal law in Austria and Hungary and the status of cities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwelve cities of Austria-Hungary: twelve different situations and many similarities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban growth and city development, 1848–1914\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter II. AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN TOWER OF BABEL: THE CITY AND ITS LANGUAGES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefining the languages of the Empire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStatistical approach to multilingualism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMultilingualism and professional mobility\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiteracy and language practice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Jews: a multicultural group par excellence?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSigns of multilingualism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe language of the city\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter III. BELLS AND CHURCH TOWERS: THE CONFESSIONAL DIVERSITY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA fragmented confessional landscape\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Roman Catholics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Greek-Catholics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Orthodox\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvangelical and Reformed Protestantism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJudaism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Muslims: newcomers to the scene of confessional diversity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMobile communities: mixed marriages and conversions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligion and national politics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuilding the multiconfessional city: churches, temples, and synagogues\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter IV. SCHOOLS: PLACES TO LEARN MULTICULTURALISM OR FACTORIES OF THE NATION??\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe framework of instruction and school systems in Austria-Hungary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguages in school curricula \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNational struggle in Brünn, Trieste, and Lemberg\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe gender issue: educating the “mothers of the nation”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSharing schools in Czernowitz \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTroublesome student associations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe struggle for the university\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter V. CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: MULTICULTURALISM AND NATIONAL DISCOURSE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural associations as political actors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe song of the nation: choirs\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe politics of singing\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNational institutes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen’s associations: new ways of action\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJewish associative life: coming out of the ghetto\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe city as a stage: nationalizing the theater\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe press: actor and enemy of multiculturalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter VI. SPACES AND LANDSCAPES OF THE CITY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModernizing the city\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe appropriation of public space\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUses of and struggles for the public space: building a home for the nation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGoing beyond the nation: social contest\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter VII. POLITICS IN THE CITY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInside the city hall\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTurbulent Czernowitz\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe experimental city: Sarajevo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitical parties\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter VIII. SHARING THE CITY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe dimensions of city patriotism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCelebrating the city\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe loyal city: memorializing the Habsburgs\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwo cases of “constructed” Habsburg cities: Czernowitz and Sarajevo. A colonial project?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Central European University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047190921559,"sku":"9789633862896","price":144.62,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789633862896.jpg?v=1750970612","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/multicultural-cities-of-the-habsburg-empire-1880-1914-imagined-communities-and-conflictual-encounters-9789633862896","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}