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This book examines the role of imperial narratives of multinationalism as alternative ideologies to nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East from the revolutions of 1848 up to the defeat and subsequent downfall of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires in 1918. During this period, both empires struggled against a rising tide of nationalism to legitimise their own diversity of ethnicities, languages and religions. Contributors scrutinise the various narratives of identity that they developed, supported, encouraged or unwittingly created and left behind for posterity as they tried to keep up with the changing political realities of modernity.  Beyond simplified notions of enforced harmony or dynamic dissonance, this book aims at a more polyphonic analysis of the various voices of Habsburg and Ottoman multinationalism: from the imperial centres and in the closest proximity to sovereigns, to provinces and minorities, among intellectuals and state servants, through novels and newspapers. Combining insights from history, literary studies and political sciences, it further explores the lasting legacy of the empires in post-imperial narratives of loss, nostalgia, hope and redemption. It shows why the two dynasties keep haunting the twenty-first century with fears and promises of conflict, coexistence, and reborn greatness.

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Author:   Johanna Chovanec ,  Olof Heilo
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.569kg
ISBN:  

9783030552015

ISBN 10:   3030552012
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   06 February 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Part I Introduction1. Narrating Empires: Between National and Multinational Visions of Belonging2. Making Sense in a World That is Falling Apart: Imperial Narratives of State, Diversity, and ModernityPart II Ottomanism Revisited: An Imperial Narrative of Many Voices3. Ottomanism and Varieties of Official Nationalism4. Ottomanism in History and Historiography: Fortunes of a Concept5. Unruly Children of the Homeland: Ottomanism’s Non-Muslim Authors6. Arab Perspectives on the Late Ottoman EmpirePart III Empires of Diversity and States of Change: Nations and Identities Between Centers and Frontiers7. Zrinski-Myths: A Vehicle for Imperial and National Narratives8. Ottoman Reform, Non-Muslim Subjects, and Constitutive Legislation: The Reform Edict of 1856 and the Greek General Regulations of 18629. Ottoman Albanians in an Era of Transition: An Engagement with a Fluid Modern World10. Unraveling Multinational Legacies: National Affiliations of Government Employees in Post-Habsburg AustriaPart IV Habsburg Press(ure): Reading Between the Lines of A Many-Tongued Journalism11. Pester Lloyd and the German-Speaking Upper Classes of Hungary: A Budapest Newspaper in the Context of Increasing Magyarization12. A ""Roman Affair:"" A Croatian Priest College in the Habsburg Press Debate of 190113. Narratives of Modernization in Periodicals: On the German-Language Agramer Tagblatt in 1918Part V Echoes from an Inner Void: The Post-Imperial Novel Between Melancholy and Memory14. Theory of Empire, Mythology and the Power of the Narrative15. The Ottoman Myth in Turkish Literature16. The Hotel as a Non-Place of Habsburg Multinationalism. Hotel Savoy (1924) by Joseph RothPart VI Afterword17. Remembering Empires: Between Civilizational Nationalism and Post-National Pluralism"

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Johanna Chovanec is a doctoral fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation at the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Vienna, Austria.  Olof Heilo is Deputy Director at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, Turkey, and a visiting lecturer at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies in Lund, Sweden.

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