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 nationalism both insideand outside the nation state. WILLIAM WHYTE teaches history at St John's College, Oxford, UK. He is the author of 'Oxford Jackson: Architecture, Education, Status, and Style, 1835-1924' (OUP, 2006) and has edited several books on modern British history. He is currently writing a history of Britain's civic universities. OLIVER ZIMMER teaches Modern History at the University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of 'A Contested Nation: History, Memory and Nationalism in Switzerland, 1761-1891' (CUP 2003), 'Nationalism in Europe, 1890-1940' (Palgrave 2003), and 'The Nation in the Town: Reshaping German Communities, 1860-1900' (OUP forthcoming). INDICE: List of Illustrations - Preface - Notes on Contributors - 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' - Venice 1848-1914: The Venetian Sense of the Past and the Creation of the Italian Nation; 'D.Laven' - ''Contesting Images of the Nation betweenSpain and Catalonia: The Barcelona World Fair of 1888; 'S.Jacobsen' - ''An Urban Civilization: The Nation and the Town in Belgian History, 1848-1914; 'M.Van Ginderachter' - PART II: TOWNS AND THE NATION STATE - Nationalism and the Defence Town: The Case of Karlskrona; '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' - Building the Nation in the Town? Architecture and Identity in Britain; 'W.Whyte' - The Nation is a Town: The Netherlands and the Urban Content of the National 'Imagined Community'; 'H.te Velde' - Urban Economies and Imaginating Nationhood in the German South, 1860-1900; 'O.Zimmer' - Conclusion; 'J.Brueilly' - Concluding Remarks and Observations -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24628-7
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 336
• Fecha Publicación: 03/05/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés