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Dominique Kirchner Reill - Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice - 9780804774468 - V9780804774468
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Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice

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Description for Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice Hardback. A history of the efforts of community leaders and intellectuals in Venice, Trieste, and Dalmatia to create a multi-national region along the shores of the Adriatic Sea, based on a nationalism that valued diversity, not homogeneity. Series: Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1DVWYC; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588.

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 1830s, 40s, and 50s 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Series
Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804774468
SKU
V9780804774468
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About Dominique Kirchner Reill
Dominique Kirchner Reill is Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Miami.

Reviews for Nationalists Who Feared the Nation: Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice
"Bridging the two shores of the Adriatic, [Reill's] study establishes a comparative framework within which she relentlessly questions what the nation meant to nationalist thinkers in these years, how and why those ideas differed, and how and why they evolved. This beautifully written and deeply researched study broadens our understanding of the Risorgimento and offers an essential point of reference ... Read more

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