Creating the Other
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Creating the Other

Ethnic Conflict & Nationalism in Habsburg Central Europe

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Creating the Other

Ethnic Conflict & Nationalism in Habsburg Central Europe

About this book

The historic myths of a people/nation usually play an important role in the creation and consolidation of the basic concepts from which the self-image of that nation derives. These concepts include not only images of the nation itself, but also images of other peoples. Although the construction of ethnic stereotypes during the "long" nineteenth century initially had other functions than simply the homogenization of the particular culture and the exclusion of "others" from the public sphere, the evaluation of peoples according to criteria that included "level of civilization" yielded "rankings" of ethnic groups within the Habsburg Monarchy. That provided the basis for later, more divisive ethnic characterizations of exclusive nationalism, as addressed in this volume that examines the roots and results of ethnic, nationalist, and racial conflict in the region from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives.

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Information

Year
2004
Print ISBN
9781571813855
eBook ISBN
9781782388524
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Contributors
  4. Introduction
  5. Part One. The Origins and Changing Images of the Other to 1848
  6. Chapter 1. Representing National Territory
  7. Chapter 2. The Functions of Ethnic Stereotypes
  8. Chapter 3. Czechs, Germans, Bohemians?
  9. Part Two. Austria-Hungary in the Age of Nationalism
  10. Chapter 4. The Image of the Other
  11. Chapter 5. Gentry, Jews, and Peasants
  12. Chapter 6. Nationalizing Rural Landscapes in Cisleithania
  13. Chapter 7. Dynamics of Difference in the Kronprinzenwerk
  14. Part Three. The Legacy
  15. Chapter 8. Hungarian Motifs
  16. Chapter 9. The South Slavs in the Austrian Imagination
  17. Chapter 10. Peoples of the Mountains, Peoples of the Plains
  18. Chapter 11. Marking the Difference
  19. Chapter 12. The Psychology of Creating the Other
  20. Select Bibliography
  21. Index