Nationalism and the reshaping of urban communities in Europe, 1848 - 1914
"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 nation...
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| Format: | Livre |
| Langue: | English |
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Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan,
2011
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| Sujets: | Cities and towns Nationalism Urban policy Europa Stadt Nationalismus Nationalbewusstsein Geschichte 1848-1914 |
| Description matérielle: | XI, 324 S. |
| Résumé: | "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. "-- "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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| Description: | Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Introduction William Whyte and Oliver Zimmer -- Section I. Contested Territory 1 The municipal and the national in the Bohemian Lands, 1862-1914 Jeremy King 2 Venice 1848-1915: the Venetian sense of the past and the creation of the Italian nation David Laven 3 Interpreting municipal celebrations of nation and empire: the Barcelona Universal Exhibition of 1888 Stephen Jacobsen 4 An urban civilization: the case of municipal autonomy in Belgian history 1830-1914 Maarten Van Ginderachter -- Section II Towns and the Nation-State 5 Nationalism and the defence town: the case of Karlskrona, Sweden Mary Hilson 6 Negotiating for garrisons in France at the beginning of Third Republic Jean-François Chanet 7 Wither the local? nationalization, modernization, and the mobilization of urban communities in England and France, c. 1900-18 Pierre Purseigle 8 Building the nation or the town? architecture and identity in Britain William Whyte 9 The nation is a town: the Netherlands and the urban content of the national "Imagined Community" Henk te Velde 10 Urban economies and the national imagination: the German South, 1860-1914 Oliver Zimmer |
| Description matérielle: | XI, 324 S. Ill., Kt. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781349319435 1349319430 0230246281 9780230246287 |