Imperial Cities in the Tsarist, the Habsburg, and the Ottoman Empires

"This book explores the various ways imperial rule constituted and shaped the cities of Eastern Europe until the First World War in the Tsarist, Habsburg, and Ottoman empires. In these three empires, the cities served as hubs of imperial rule: their institutions and infrastructures enabled the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hofmeister, Ulrich (-)
Other Authors: Riedler, Florian
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group 2023.
2023.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Routledge Advances in Urban History Series
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009770718206719
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Conceptual Opening2. Cities, Empires, and Eastern Europe: Imperial Cities in the Tsarist, the Habsburg, and the Ottoman EmpiresUlrich HofmeisterPart 2: Manifestations of the Imperial in Urban Space3. The Imperial Palaces in Comparative Perspective: Topkapi, Kremlin, and HofburgNilay Özlü 4. Temeswar as an Imperial City in the First Half of the Eighteenth CenturyRobert Born5. Imperial Power, Imperial Identity, and Kazan Architecture: Visualizing the Empire in a Nineteenth-Century Russian ProvinceGulchachak Nugmanova6. Bound by Difference: The Merger of Rostov and Nakhichevan-on-Don into an Imperial Metropolis during the Nineteenth Century Michel AbesserPart 3: The City as a Palimpsest of Empires7. Guarding the Imperial Border: The Fortress City of Niš between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, 1690-1740Florian Riedler8. Empire after Empire: Austro-Hungarian Recalibration of the Ottoman Caršija of SarajevoAida Murtic9. Lemberg or L'vov: The Symbolic Significance of a City at the Crossroads of the Austrian and the Russian EmpiresElisabeth Haid-Lener10. Kars: Bridgehead of EmpiresElke Hartmann11. (De)constructing Imperial Heritage: Moscow Zaryadye in Times of TransitionOlga Zabalueva.