Catherine Horel is Research Director at CNRS (SIRICE, Paris I University)

"Volumul de faţă reprezintă o cercetare de istorie culturală, confesională, economică şi socio-politică relevantă în scrisul istoric naţional şi universal asupra imagologiei moderne a urbanismului Imperiului Austro-Ungar prin analiza interdisciplinară, care îmbină armonios concepte, metode şi teme din mai multe discipline. Argumentaţia captivantă, comparativă şi concisă, dar şi cunoaşterea şi aplicarea temeinică a istoriografiei problemei, fac ca demersul semnat de Catherine Horel să merite atenţia specialiştilor şi a publicului larg deoarece pot înţelege mai clar nu doar evoluţia multiculturală a teritoriilor monarhice, ci şi identitatea oraşelor în care s-au născut, trăiesc sau cu care au avut eventual un contact mai mult sau mai puţ intangenţial."https://www.ceeol.com/search/viewpdf

• List of FiguresList of TablesNote on the spelling of city namesIntroductionChapter 1. Midsize Cities in Austria-HungaryMunicipal law in Austria and Hungary and the status of citiesTwelve cities of Austria-Hungary: twelve different situations and many similaritiesUrban growth and city development, 1848–1914Chapter 2. Austro-Hungarian Tower of Babel: The City and its LanguagesDefining the languages of the empireStatistical approach to multilingualismMultilingualism and professional mobilityLiteracy and language practiceThe Jews: a multicultural group par excellence?Signs of multilingualismThe language of the cityChapter 3. Bells and Church Towers: The Confessional DiversityA fragmented confessional landscapeThe Roman CatholicsThe Greek-CatholicsThe OrthodoxEvangelical and Reformed ProtestantismJudaismThe Muslims: newcomers to the scene of confessional diversityMobile communities: mixed marriages and conversionsReligion and national politicsBuilding the multiconfessional city: churches, temples, and synagoguesChapter 4. Schools: Places to Learn Multiculturalism or Factories of the Nation?The framework of instruction and school systems in Austria-HungaryLanguages in school curriculaNational struggle in Brünn, Trieste, and LembergThe gender issue: educating the “mothers of the nation”Sharing schools in CzernowitzTroublesome student associationsThe struggle for the universityChapter 5. Cultural Institutions: Multiculturalism and National DiscourseCultural associations as political actorsThe song of the nation: choirsThe politics of singingNational institutesWomen’s associations: new ways of actionJewish associative life: coming out of the ghettoThe city as a stage: nationalizing the theatreThe press: actor and enemy of multiculturalismChapter 6. Spaces and Landscapes of the CityModernizing the cityThe appropriation of public spaceUses of and struggles for the public space: building a home for the nationGoing beyond the nation: social contestChapter 7. Politics in the CityInside the city hallTurbulent CzernowitzThe experimental city: SarajevoPolitical partiesChapter 8. Sharing the CityThe dimensions of city patriotismCelebrating the cityThe loyal city: memorializing the HabsburgsTwo cases of “constructed” Habsburg cities: Czernowitz and Sarajevo. A colonial project?ConclusionAppendixStatisticsPolyglossia in Hungarian townsBibliographyIndex