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 Br�unn, 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 -- Back cover.

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