Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire, 1880–1914

Imagined Communities and Conflictual Encounters

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Catherine Horel has undertaken a comparative analysis of the societal, ethnic, and cultural diversity in the last decades of the Habsburg Monarchy as represented in twelve cities: Arad, Bratislava, Brno, Chernivtsi, Lviv, Oradea, Rijeka, Sarajevo, Subotica, Timișoara, Trieste, and Zagreb. By purposely selecting these cities, the author aims to counter the disproportionate attention that the largest cities in the empire receive. With a focus on the aspects of everyday life faced by the city inhabitants (associations, schools, economy, and municipal politics) the book avoids any idealization of the monarchy as a paradise of peaceful multiculturalism, and also avoids exaggerating 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 constantly growing cultural offerings.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-09-30
Mått152 x 229 x 143 mm
Vikt974 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor574
FörlagCentral European University Press
ISBN9789633862896

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List of FiguresList of TablesNote on the spelling of city namesIntroductionChapter 1. Midsize Cities in Austria-HungaryMunicipal law in Austria and Hungary and the status of citiesTwelve cities of Austria-Hungary: twelve different situations and many similaritiesUrban growth and city development, 1848–1914Chapter 2. Austro-Hungarian Tower of Babel: The City and its LanguagesDefining the languages of the empireStatistical approach to multilingualismMultilingualism and professional mobilityLiteracy and language practiceThe Jews: a multicultural group par excellence?Signs of multilingualismThe language of the cityChapter 3. Bells and Church Towers: The Confessional DiversityA fragmented confessional landscapeThe Roman CatholicsThe Greek-CatholicsThe OrthodoxEvangelical and Reformed ProtestantismJudaismThe Muslims: newcomers to the scene of confessional diversityMobile communities: mixed marriages and conversionsReligion and national politicsBuilding the multiconfessional city: churches, temples, and synagoguesChapter 4. Schools: Places to Learn Multiculturalism or Factories of the Nation?The framework of instruction and school systems in Austria-HungaryLanguages in school curriculaNational struggle in Brünn, Trieste, and LembergThe gender issue: educating the “mothers of the nation”Sharing schools in CzernowitzTroublesome student associationsThe struggle for the universityChapter 5. Cultural Institutions: Multiculturalism and National DiscourseCultural associations as political actorsThe song of the nation: choirsThe politics of singingNational institutesWomen’s associations: new ways of actionJewish associative life: coming out of the ghettoThe city as a stage: nationalizing the theatreThe press: actor and enemy of multiculturalismChapter 6. Spaces and Landscapes of the CityModernizing the cityThe appropriation of public spaceUses of and struggles for the public space: building a home for the nationGoing beyond the nation: social contestChapter 7. Politics in the CityInside the city hallTurbulent CzernowitzThe experimental city: SarajevoPolitical partiesChapter 8. Sharing the CityThe dimensions of city patriotismCelebrating the cityThe loyal city: memorializing the HabsburgsTwo cases of “constructed” Habsburg cities: Czernowitz and Sarajevo. A colonial project?ConclusionAppendixStatisticsPolyglossia in Hungarian townsBibliographyIndex

"Volumul de faţă reprezintă o cercetare de istorie culturală, confesională, economică şi socio-politică relevantă în scrisul istoric naţional şi universal asupra imagologiei moderne a urbanismului Imperiului Austro-Ungar prin analiza interdisciplinară, care îmbină armonios concepte, metode şi teme din mai multe discipline. Argumentaţia captivantă, comparativă şi concisă, dar şi cunoaşterea şi aplicarea temeinică a istoriografiei problemei, fac ca demersul semnat de Catherine Horel să merite atenţia specialiştilor şi a publicului larg deoarece pot înţelege mai clar nu doar evoluţia multiculturală a teritoriilor monarhice, ci şi identitatea oraşelor în care s-au născut, trăiesc sau cu care au avut eventual un contact mai mult sau mai puţ intangenţial."https://www.ceeol.com/search/viewpdf