Lieven D’hulst is Professor of Francophone Literatures and Translation Studies at KU Leuven, Belgium.Kaisa Koskinen is Professor of Translation Studies at Tampere University, Finland.

• 1. Translating in towns: An introduction, Lieven D’hulst (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Kaisa Koskinen (Tampere University, Finland)Part I: Translating in hegemonic regimes2. Translation policies in Northern Italian cities during the Napoleonic era: The case of Milan, Genoa and Turin, Michael Schreiber (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany)Part II: Upcoming local nationalisms3. Habsburg Vienna: The institutionalization of translation in a hybrid city, 1848-1914, Michaela Wolf (University of Graz, Austria)4. Bern in the nineteenth century: Emerging institutional translation in a multilingual state, Valérie Dullion (University of Geneva, Switzerland)5. Mediating Flemish: Local language and translation policies on the French-Belgian border, Lieven D’hulst (KU Leuven, Belgium)6. Translating in an emerging language policy: Tampere city council 1875-87, Kaisa Koskinen (Tampere University, Finland)Part III: Interpreting in harbour towns7. Consuls and other interpreters in Cork Harbour, Ireland, Mary Phelan (Dublin City University, Ireland)8. Maritime interpreters in nineteenth-century Barcelona: A failure story in translation policy, Albert Branchadell (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)Part IV: Translating for the public space9. Translations in Ljubljanski zvon: The window into the cultural life of the late nineteenth-century Ljubljana, Nike K. Pokorn (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)10. Translating in the ‘expanded’ town: Translation practices in nineteenth-century Nicosia and Cyprus, Georgios Floros (University of Cyprus, Greece)Index

The research path adopted in this book has important methodological implications for the interdisciplinary study of translation.