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Author:   Catherine Horel
Publisher:   Central European University Press
Imprint:   Central European University Press
ISBN:  

9789633862896

ISBN 10:   9633862892
Pages:   460
Publication Date:   10 November 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"List of illustrations Foreword Introduction Chapter I. CITY PROFILES - The status of the cities and municipal law in Austria and Hungary - Twelve cities of Austria-Hungary: twelve different situations and many similarities. Chapter II. AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN TOWER OF BABEL: THE CITY AND ITS LANGUAGES - Defining the languages - Statistical approach of multilingualism - Multifaceted polyglots - Literacy and language practice - Visible multiculturalism - City language Chapter III. BELLS AND CHURCH TOWERS: THE CONFESSIONAL DIVERSITY - A contrasted confessional landscape - The Jews: a multicultural group par excellence? - The Roman Catholics - The Greek-Catholics - The Orthodox - Evangelic and Reformed Protestantism - The diversity of Judaism - The Muslims: newcomers in the scene of confessional diversity - Mobile communities: mixed marriages and conversions - Religion and national politics - The multiconfessional town: Building churches, temples and synagogues Chapter IV. SCHOOLS: LEARNING MULTICULTURALISM OR FACTORY OF THE NATION? - The framework of instruction and school systems in Austria-Hungary - Languages in school curricula - National struggle and gender issue Chapter V. CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: MULTICULTURALISM AND NATIONAL DISCOURSE - Cultural associations as political actors - The song of the nation: choruses - National institutes - Women's associations: new ways of action. - Jewish associative life: coming out of the ghetto. - The city as a stage: nationalizing the theatre - The press : actor and enemy of multiculturalism Chapter VI. SPACES AND LANDSCAPES OF THE CITY - Modernizing the city - The appropriation of the public space - Uses and struggles for the space Chapter VII. POLITICS IN THE CITY - Inside the town hall - Political parties Chapter VIII. SHARING THE CITY - The dimensions of local patriotism - Celebrating the city - The loyal city : memorializing the Habsburg - Two cases of ""constructed"" Habsburg cities: Czernowitz and Sarajevo. A colonial project? Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index"

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""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 -- Andrei Mic * Studii şi articole de istorie *

"""Catherine Horel, one of the most profound experts on the history of the late Habsburg Empire, has approached the multifaceted and nuanced everyday life of multiculturalism in various cities of the empire between 1880 and 1914. A topic that is also significant for the present has found an exceptionally knowledgeable author."" --Hannes Grandits ""This book offers a fresh new prism through which to view and compare the cultural and political landscapes of the late Habsburg Empire--mid-sized cities across Austria and Hungary. Horel pushes the urban history of East-Central Europe outside of the familiar (Vienna, Budapest, Prague) to reveal the dynamic lifeworlds in twelve multicultural cities ranging from to Czernowitz to Fiume, Pozsony to Zagreb. With its solid statistical foundation, the book accomplishes what very few studies of the region do: it genuinely offers a history of both Transleithania and Cisleithania, finding in common urban experiences new ways to investigate familiar questions about nationality, state and belonging."" --Maureen Healy ""An ambitious contribution to our understanding of identity and conflict in the late Habsburg empire. Through her meticulous comparison of twelve provincial cities, the polyglot historian Catherine Horel brings an original perspective to the dynamics of social and national mobilization around the fin-de-si�cle. Not only are the cities revealed as hotly contested spaces for their inhabitants, but also as competitors with each other in their struggle to modernize and assert civic pride. A key strength of the book, making it invaluable for all students of Austria-Hungary, is the equal attention paid to the Hungarian half of the empire."" --Mark Cornwall ""Based on prodigious research, this study offers fascinating new vistas on the realities of linguistic, religious, and national diversity in the life of midsize cities across the Habsburg Monarchy. It is indispensable reading on the development of popular culture, civil society, and governance in modern Central Europe."" --Gary B. Cohen"

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Catherine Horel is Research Director at CNRS (SIRICE, Paris I University)

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