Nationalism and the reshaping of urban communities in Europe, 1848-1914
By: edited by William Whyte, Oliver Zimmer
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780230246287
Subjects: Cities and towns; Nationalism; Urban policy
Description: "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. "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- William Whyte and Oliver Zimmer -- Section I.; title: Contested Territory: -- 1.; title: The municipal and the national in the Bohemian Lands, 1862-1914  -- Jeremy King; -- 2.; title: Venice 1848-1915: the Venetian sense of the past and the creation of the Italian nation  -- David Laven; -- 3 .; title: Interpreting municipal celebrations of nation and empire: the Barcelona Universal Exhibition of 1888  -- Stephen Jacobsen; -- 4.; title: An urban civilization: the case of municipal autonomy in Belgian history 1830-1914  -- Maarten Van Ginderachter -- Section II.; title: Towns and the Nation-State: -- 5.; title: Nationalism and the defence town: the case of Karlskrona, Sweden  -- Mary Hilson; -- 6.; title: Negotiating for garrisons in France at the beginning of Third Republic  -- Jean-François Chanet; -- 7.; title: Wither the local? nationalization, modernization, and the mobilization of urban communities in England and France, c. 1900-18  -- Pierre Purseigle; -- 8.; title: Building the nation or the town? architecture and identity in Britain  -- William Whyte; -- 9.; title: The nation is a town: the Netherlands and the urban content of the national "Imagined Community"  -- Henk te Velde; -- 10.; title: Urban economies and the national imagination: the German South, 1860-1914 -- Oliver Zimmer.