Synopses & Reviews
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.
About the Author
WILLIAM WHYTE is Fellow, Tutor, and University Lecturer in History at St John's College, Oxford. He has written extensively on the relationship between architecture and identity, and is the author of
Oxford Jackson: Architecture, Education, Status, and Style, 1835-1924 (2002) and co-editor of
Redefining Christian Britain: Post-1945 Perspectives (2007). He is currently working on the architecture of British universities, on town planning in Edwardian Britain, and on the history of Oxford University Press.
OLIVER ZIMMER is University Lecturer at University College, University of Oxford. A former Humboldt Fellow, he is the author of A Contested Nation: History, Memory and Nationalism in Switzerland 1861-1891 (2003), Nationalism in Europe 1890-1940 (2003), and co-editor (with Len Scales) of Power and the Nation in European History (2005). He is currently completing a book entitled The Nation in the Town: Nationalism and the Reshaping of German Communities, 1860-1900, to be published by OUP in 2010.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Nationalism's Urban Imagination;
W.Whyte&
O.ZimmerPART 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