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Record Nr.

UNINA9910739490503321

Autore

Horel Catherine

Titolo

Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire, 1880-1914 : Imagined Communities and Conflictual Encounters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest : , : Central European University Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

963-386-289-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (570 pages)

Classificazione

HIS040000SOC026030

Disciplina

305.80094309/041

Soggetti

Cities and towns - Europe, Eastern - History

Cities and towns - Europe, Central - History

Multiculturalism

HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban

Europe, Eastern History

Europe, Eastern Politics and government

Europe, Eastern Social conditions

Europe, Central History

Europe, Central Politics and government

Europe, Central Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- City profiles -- Austro-Hungarian Tower of Babel: the city and its languages -- Bells and church towers: the confessional diversity -- Schools: learning multiculturalism or factory of the nation? -- Cultural institutions: multiculturalism and national discourse -- Spaces and landscapes of the city -- Politics in the city --Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--