Multicultural cities of the Habsburg empire
| Titel: | Multicultural cities of the Habsburg empire : 1880-1914 : imagined communities and conflictual encounters / Catherine Horel |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Budapest; Vienna; New York : Central European University Press, 2023 |
| Umfang: | xvii, 556 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten, Diagramme |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| ISBN: | 9789633862896 ; 9789633862902 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- List of Figures
- ix
- List of Tables
- xi
- Note on the spelling of city names
- xiii
- Introduction
- 1
- Chapter 1
- Midsize Cities in Austria-Hungary
- 23
- Municipal law in Austria and Hungary and the status of cities
- 23
- Twelve cities of Austria-Hungary: twelve different situations and many similarities
- 27
- Urban growth and city development, 1848-1914
- 40
- Chapter 2
- Austro-Hungarian Tower of Babel: The City and Its Languages
- 63
- Defining the languages of the empire
- 63
- Statistical approach to multilingualism
- 70
- Multilingualism and professional mobility
- 78
- Languages in the military
- 78
- The multilingualism of state functionaries, priests, and teachers
- 80
- Literacy and language practice
- 82
- The Jews: a multicultural group par excellence?
- 84
- Signs of multilingualism
- 92
- The language ofthe city
- 97
- Chapter 3
- Bells and Church Towers: The Confessional Diversity
- 107
- A fragmented confessional landscape
- 107
- The Roman Catholics
- 112
- The Greek Catholics
- 115
- The Greek Orthodox
- 117
- Evangelical and Reformed Protestantism
- 119
- Judaism
- 120
- The Muslims: newcomers to the scene of confessional diversity
- 123
- Mobile communities: mixed marriages and conversions
- 124
- Religion and national politics
- 130
- Building the multiconfessional city: churches, temples, and synagogues
- 136
- Chapter 4
- Schools: Places to Learn Multiculturalism or Factories of The Nation?
- 161
- The framework of instruction and school systems in Austria-Hungary
- 161
- Languages in school curricula
- 169
- National struggle in Brünn, Trieste, and Lenaberg
- 173
- The gender issue: educating "the mothers of the nation"
- 186
- Sharing schools in Czernowitz
- 194
- Troublesome student associations
- 202
- The struggle for the university
- 210
- Universities as spaces of national rivalries: Lemberg
- 214
- Universities in Transleithania
- 217
- New universities for local minorities
- 220
- Chapter 5
- Cultural Institutions: Multiculturalism and National Discourse
- 229
- Cultural associations as political actors
- 234
- Hungarian associational life
- 236
- Associations in Cisleithania
- 239
- The song of the nation: choirs
- 245
- The politics of singing
- 249
- National institutes
- 251
- Women's associations: new ways of action
- 254
- Jewish associative life: coming out of the ghetto
- 256
- The city as a stage: nationalizing the theater
- 263
- Magyarizing theaters in Transleithania
- 269
- German theaters in Cisleithania
- 277
- Local patriotism and the sponsoring and financing of theaters
- 283
- The press: actor and enemy of multiculturalism
- 287
- The press in Transleithanian cities
- 304
- The press in Cisleithanian cities
- 309
- Jewish press
- 316
- Chapter 6
- Spaces and Landscapes of the City
- 321
- Modernizing the city
- 324
- Associations for modernizing the city
- 332
- Parks in the new urban landscape
- 334
- Centers and suburbs in the modern city: garden cities
- 337
- The appropriation of public space
- 341
- Uses of and struggles for the public space: building a home for the nation
- 364
- Going beyond the nation: social contest
- 380
- Chapter 7
- Politics in the City
- 389
- Inside the city hall
- 391
- Turbulent Czernowitz
- 401
- The experimental city: Sarajevo
- 408
- Political parties
- 412
- Women and political emancipation
- 445
- Chapter 8
- Sharing the City
- 451
- The dimensions of city patriotism
- 452
- Celebrating the city
- 456
- The loyal city: memorializing the Habsburgs
- 472
- Two cases of "constructed" Habsburg cities: Czernowitz and Sarajevo. A colonial project?
- 482
- Conclusion
- 491
- Appendix
- 497
- Statistics
- 497
- Cisleithania
- 497
- Transleithania
- 499
- Sarajevo
- 503
- Polyglossia in Hungarian towns
- 504
- Bibliography
- 507
- Index
- 539
