EAN: 9783879694303

POLITICS OF SPACE IN PRUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN-HUNG...

This book tells a story of urban modernisation on the peripheries of the two nineteenthcentury
empires  examines how people at the time imagined a 'European city' and how they strived to
fulfil this ideal. At the same time this monograph demonstrates how nationalism became part of
this development and why it was resisted. It also explains how various actors played the
nationalist card to achieve very different goals. This study of urban development also shows
how local politics often defied well-known nationalist scripts: A German mayor of Posen
condemned Germanisation politics of the Prussian government  whereas Cracow's media celebrated
technical novelties in city theatre building  rather than national decorations. The comparative
perspective shows not only similarities and differences of the symbolic regimes in the
Hohenzollern and Habsburg monarchies  but also how nationalism was merely part of a bigger
picture and can be properly understood only together with class  religion and other political
factors. Last but not least  this book challenges common assumptions about the irrational
nature of national commemorations and symbolic politics in general  showing why various state
and private actors engaged in such enterprises and what they could gain from it.

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