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Nationalism and the reshaping of urban communities in Europe, 1848-1914
Title
Nationalism and the reshaping of urban communities in Europe, 1848-1914 / edited by William Whyte, Oliver Zimmer.
ISBN
9780230246287 (hardback)
0230246281 (hardback)
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Physical Description
xi, 324 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary
"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. "-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 27, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note:
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
Nationalism and Urbanism in Denmark: The Example of Copenhagen; U.Østergård
Contesting the Nation in the Municipal Sphere: The Barcelona Universal Exhibition of 1888; S.Jacobsen
Venice 1848-1914: The Venetian Sense of the Past and the Creation of the Italian Nation; D.Laven
PART II: TOWNS AND THE NATION STATE
Nationalism and the Naval Dockyard Town before the First World War; 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
The Nation or the Town? Britain, 1848-1914; W.Whyte
La Commune c'est Toute la Nation. The Nation and the Town in Belgian History, 1830-1914; M.Van Ginderachter
Towns, Cities and the Imagined Community of the Dutch Nation; H.te Velde
Urban Economies and the National Imagination: The German South, 1860-1914; O.Zimmer.
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