1st Edition
Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire, 1880-1914 Imagined Communities and Conflictual Encounters
By Catherine Horel
Copyright 2023
574 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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... Read more
List of Figures, List of Tables, Note on the spelling of city names, Introduction, Chapter 1. Midsize Cities in Austria-Hungary, Chapter 2. Austro-Hungarian Tower of Babel: The City and its Languages, Chapter 3. Bells and Church Towers: The Confessional Diversity, Chapter 4. Schools: Places to Learn Multiculturalism or Factories of the Nation?, Chapter 5. Cultural Institutions: Multiculturalism and National Discourse, Chapter 6. Spaces and Landscapes of the City, Chapter 7. Politics in the City, Chapter 8. Sharing the City, Conclusion, Appendix, Statistics, Polyglossia in Hungarian towns, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Catherine Horel is Research Director at CNRS (SIRICE, Paris I University).
