Nationalists who feared the nation : Adriatic multi-nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice / Dominique Kirchner Reill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reill, Dominique Kirchner, 1974-

Series:

Stanford studies on Central and Eastern Europe.

Stanford studies on Central and Eastern Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Croatia--Dalmatia--History--19th century.

Nationalism.

Nationalism--Italy--Trieste--History--19th century.

Nationalism--Italy--Venice--History--19th century.

Cultural pluralism--Croatia--Dalmatia--History--19th century.

Cultural pluralism.

Cultural pluralism--Italy--Trieste--History--19th century.

Cultural pluralism--Italy--Venice--History--19th century.

Adriatic Sea Region--History--19th century.

Adriatic Sea Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Other Title:

From bridge to border

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We can often learn as much from political movements that failed as from those that achieved their goals. Nationalists Who Feared the Nation looks at one such frustrated movement: a group of community leaders and writers in Venice, Trieste, and Dalmatia during the 1830's, 40's, and 50's who proposed the creation of a multinational zone surrounding the Adriatic Sea. At the time, the lands of the Adriatic formed a maritime community whose people spoke different languages and practiced different faiths but identified themselves as belonging to a single region of the Hapsburg Empire. While these activists hoped that nationhood could be used to strengthen cultural bonds, they also feared nationalism's homogenizing effects and its potential for violence. This book demonstrates that not all nationalisms attempted to create homogeneous, single-language, -religion, or -ethnicity nations. Moreover, in treating the Adriatic lands as one unit, this book serves as a correction to "national" histories that impose our modern view of nationhood on what was a multinational region.

Contents:

The Adriatic and the romance of national variety

Niccolò Tommaseo : progress through multi-nationalism

Trieste : the center of a multi-national Adriatic

Multi-nationalism in Dalmatia : from a means to an end

1848 : a rupture in experience

1848 : a crisis for multi-nationalism?

Conclusion : from bridge to border : the Adriatic in the nineteenth century.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804778497

0804778493

OCLC:

767502719