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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Horel, Catherine.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2023.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Front matter
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Note on the spelling of city names
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE: Midsize Cities in Austria-Hungary
  • Municipal law in Austria and Hungary and the status of cities
  • Twelve cities of Austria-Hungary: twelve different situations and many similarities
  • Urban growth and city development, 1848-1914
  • CHAPTER TWO: Austro-Hungarian Tower of Babel:The City and Its Languages
  • Defining the languages of the empire
  • Statistical approach to multilingualism
  • Multilingualism and professional mobility
  • Literacy and language practice
  • The Jews: a multicultural group par excellence?
  • Signs of multilingualism
  • The language of the city
  • CHAPTER THREE: Bells and Church Towers: The Confessional Diversity
  • A fragmented confessional landscape
  • The Roman Catholics
  • The Greek Catholics
  • The Greek Orthodox
  • Evangelical and Reformed Protestantism
  • Judaism
  • The Muslims: newcomers to the scene of confessional diversity
  • Mobile communities: mixed marriages and conversions
  • Religion and national politics
  • Building the multiconfessional city: churches, temples, and synagogues
  • CHAPTER FOUR: Schools: Places to Learn Multiculturalism or Factories of The Nation?
  • The framework of instruction and school systems in Austria-Hungary
  • Languages in school curricula
  • National struggle in Brünn, Trieste, and Lemberg
  • The gender issue: educating "the mothers of the nation"
  • Sharing schools in Czernowitz
  • Troublesome student associations
  • The struggle for the university
  • CHAPTER FIVE: Cultural Institutions: Multiculturalism and National Discourse
  • Cultural associations as political actors
  • The song of the nation: choirs
  • The politics of singing
  • National institutes
  • Women's associations: new ways of action.
  • Jewish associative life: coming out of the ghetto
  • The city as a stage: nationalizing the theater
  • The press: actor and enemy of multiculturalism
  • CHAPTER SIX: Spaces and Landscapes of the City
  • Modernizing the city
  • The appropriation of public space
  • Uses of and struggles for the public space: building a home for the nation
  • Going beyond the nation: social contest
  • CHAPTER SEVEN: Politics in the City
  • Inside the city hall
  • Turbulent Czernowitz
  • The experimental city: Sarajevo
  • Political parties
  • Women and political emancipation
  • CHAPTER EIGHT: Sharing the City
  • The dimensions of city patriotism
  • Celebrating the city
  • The loyal city: memorializing the Habsburgs
  • Two cases of "constructed" Habsburg cities: Czernowitz and Sarajevo. A colonial project?
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Statistics
  • Polyglossia in Hungarian towns
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Back cover.

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