Introduction: Understanding Multiculturalism: The Habsburg Central European Experience

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction: Understanding Multiculturalism: The Habsburg Central European Experience 1
6. Section I Identity Formation in Multicultural Societies
7. Chapter 1 Heterogeneities and Homogeneities: On Similarities and Diversities 17
8. Chapter 2 Mestizaje and Hybrid Culture: Toward a Transnational Cultural Memory of Europe and the Development of Cultural Theories in Latin America 47
9. Chapter 3 Do Multiple Languages Mean a Multicultural Society? Nationalist “Frontiers” in Rural Austria, 1880–1918 61
10. Section II The Dynamics of Multicultural Societies, Politics, and the State
11. Chapter 4 Multiculturalism, Polish Style: Glimpses from the Interwar Period 85
12. Chapter 5 Multiculturalism against the State: Lessons from Istria 101
13. Chapter 6 Migration in Austria: An Overview of the 1920s to 2000s 122
14. Section III Identities Expressed, Negotiated, and Challenged in Multicultural Settings
15. Chapter 7 The Slice of Desire: Intercultural Practices versus National Loyalties in the Peripheral Multiethnic Society of Central Europe at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 161
16. Chapter 8 On “Neighbors” and “Strangers” The Literary Motif of “Central Europe” As Lieu de Mémoire 174
17. Chapter 9 Culture as a Space of Communication 187
18. Selected Bibliography 209
19. Contributors 233
20. Index 237