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Staging the past : the politics of commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the present / edited by Maria Bucur and Nancy M. Wingfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Central European studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalism.
- History.
- Europe, Central--History--Anniversaries, etc.
- Europe, Central.
- Austria--History--Anniversaries, etc.
- Austria.
- Nationalism--Europe, Central--Anniversaries, etc.
- Nationalism--Austria--Anniversaries, etc.
- Central Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 337 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- West Lafayette, IN : Purdue University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- This volume contains three sections of essays which examine the role of commemoration and public celebrations in the creation of a national identity in Habsburg lands. It also seeks to engage historians of culture and of nationalism in other geographic fields as well as colleagues who work on Habsburg Central Europe, but write about nationalism from different vantage points. There is hope that this work will help generate a dialogue, especially with colleagues who live in the regions that were analyzed. Many of the authors consider the commemorations discussed in this volume from very different points of view, as they themselves are strongly rooted in a historical context that remains much closer to the nationalism we critique.
- Contents:
- Imperial Attempts to Establish Commemorative Practices
- Reasserting Empire: Habsburg Imperial Celebrations after the Revolutions of 1848-1849 / Daniel Unowsky 13
- Kraus's Firework: State Consciousness Raising in the 1908 Jubilee Parade in Vienna and the Problem of Austrian Identity / Steven Beller 46
- Contestation from the Margins
- Patriotic Celebrations in Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Tirol / Laurence Cole 75
- The Nationalization of East Central Europe: Ethnicism, Ethnicity, and Beyond / Jeremy King 112
- Rural Myth and the Modern Nation: Peasant Commemorations of Polish National Holidays, 1879-1910 / Keely Stauter-Halsted 153
- Statues of Emperor Joseph II as Sites of German Identity / Nancy M. Wingfield 178
- Legacies and Contestations in the Successor States
- Religious Heroes for a Secular State: Commemorating Jan Hus and Saint Wenceslas in 1920s Czechoslovakia / Cynthia J. Paces 209
- Scattered Graves, Ordered Cemeteries: Commemorating Serbia's Wars of National Liberation, 1912-1918 / Melissa Bokovoy 236
- The Cult of March 15: Sustaining the Hungarian Myth of Revolution, 1849-1999 / Alice Freifeld 255
- Birth of a Nation: Commemorations of December 1, 1918, and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Romania / Maria Bucur 286.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-328) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1557531617
- OCLC:
- 45466266
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