Nationalism and the Reshaping of Urban Communities in Europe, 1848-1914 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Whyte, W.; Zimmer, O.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together a distinguished group of historians to explore the previously neglected relationship between nationalism and urban history. It reveals the contrasting experiences of nationalism in different societies and milieus. It will help historians to reassess the role of nationalism both inside and outside the nation state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230306516
• Artikelnr.: 45963875

Autorenporträt

JOHN BREUILLY Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK JEAN-FRANÇOIS CHANET Professor of Modern History at Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille 3, France STEPHEN JACOBSON Independent Scholar and author JEREMY KING Associate Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA DAVID LAVEN Senior Lecturer in Italian Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Manchester, UK PIERRE PURSEIGLE Lecturer in History and Director of the Centre for First World War Studies, University of Birmingham, UK HENK TE VELDE Professor of Dutch History and Head of Department, Leiden University, The Netherlands MAARTEN VAN GINDERACHTER Lecturer at the Department of History, Centre of Political History, Antwerp University, Belgium

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Nationalism's Urban Imagination; W.Whyte & O.Zimmer PART I: CONTESTED TERRITORY The Municipal and the National in the Bohemian Lands, 1862-1914; J.King Venice 1848-1914: The Venetian Sense of the Past and the Creation of the Italian Nation; D.Laven Contesting Images of the Nation between Spain and Catalonia: The Barcelona World Fair of 1888; S.Jacobsen An Urban Civilization: The Nation and the Town in Belgian History, 1848-1914; M.Van Ginderachter PART II: TOWNS AND THE NATION STATE Nationalism and the Defence Town: The Case of Karlskrona; M.Hilson The Garrisons Market in France in the Early Years of the Third Republic; J-F.Chanet Wither the Local? Nationalization, Modernization, and the Mobilization of Urban Communities in England and France, 1900-1918; P.Purseigle Building the Nation in the Town? Architecture and Identity in Britain; W.Whyte The Nation is a Town: The Netherlands and the Urban Content of the National 'Imagined Community'; H.te Velde Urban Economies and Imaginating Nationhood in the German South, 1860-1900; O.Zimmer Conclusion; J.Brueilly Concluding Remarks and Observations