Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire, 1880-1914. Imagined Communities and Conflictual Encounters

Cover
Front matter
	Title page
	Copyright page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Note on the spelling of city names
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE: Midsize Cities in Austria-Hungary
	Municipal law in Austria and Hungary and the status of cities
	Twelve cities of Austria-Hungary: twelve different situations and many similarities
	Urban growth and city development, 1848–1914
CHAPTER TWO: Austro-Hungarian Tower of Babel:The City and Its Languages
	Defining the languages of the empire
	Statistical approach to multilingualism
	Multilingualism and professional mobility
	Literacy and language practice
	The Jews: a multicultural group par excellence?
	Signs of multilingualism
	The language of the city
CHAPTER THREE: Bells and Church Towers: The Confessional Diversity
	A fragmented confessional landscape
	The Roman Catholics
	The Greek Catholics
	The Greek Orthodox
	Evangelical and Reformed Protestantism
	Judaism
	The Muslims: newcomers to the scene of confessional diversity
	Mobile communities: mixed marriages and conversions
	Religion and national politics
	Building the multiconfessional city: churches, temples, and synagogues
CHAPTER FOUR: Schools: Places to Learn Multiculturalism or Factories of The Nation?
	The framework of instruction and school systems in Austria-Hungary
	Languages in school curricula
	National struggle in Brünn, Trieste, and Lemberg
	The gender issue: educating “the mothers of the nation”
	Sharing schools in Czernowitz
	Troublesome student associations
	The struggle for the university
CHAPTER FIVE: Cultural Institutions: Multiculturalism and National Discourse
	Cultural associations as political actors
	The song of the nation: choirs
	The politics of singing
	National institutes
	Women’s associations: new ways of action
	Jewish associative life: coming out of the ghetto
	The city as a stage: nationalizing the theater
	The press: actor and enemy of multiculturalism
CHAPTER SIX: Spaces and Landscapes of the City
	Modernizing the city
	The appropriation of public space
	Uses of and struggles for the public space: building a home for the nation
	Going beyond the nation: social contest
CHAPTER SEVEN: Politics in the City
	Inside the city hall
	Turbulent Czernowitz
	The experimental city: Sarajevo
	Political parties
	Women and political emancipation
CHAPTER EIGHT: Sharing the City
	The dimensions of city patriotism
	Celebrating the city
	The loyal city: memorializing the Habsburgs
	Two cases of “constructed” Habsburg cities: Czernowitz and Sarajevo. A colonial project?
Conclusion
Appendix
Statistics
Polyglossia in Hungarian towns
Bibliography
Index
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