Creating the Other : : Ethnic Conflict & Nationalism in Habsburg Central Europe / / ed. by Nancy M. Wingfield.

• MitwirkendeR: Agnew, Hugh LeCaine,; Bendix, Regina,; Cohen, Gary B.,; Haslinger, Peter,; Judson, Pieter M.,; Kaser, Karl,; Loewenberg, Peter,; Luthar, Breda,; Luthar, Oto,; Popova, Irina,; Promitzer, Christian,; Struve, Kai,; Vári, András,; Wingfield, Nancy M.,; Štaif, Jiří,
• HerausgeberIn: Wingfield, Nancy M.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part One THE ORIGINS AND CHANGING IMAGES OF THE OTHER TO 1848 -- Chapter 1 REPRESENTING NATIONAL TERRITORY Cartography and Nationalism in Hungary, 1700-1848 -- Chapter 2 THE FUNCTIONS OF ETHNIC STEREOTYPES IN AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY -- Chapter 3 CZECHS, GERMANS, BOHEMIANS? Images of Self and Other in Bohemia to 1848 -- Part Two AUSTRIA-HUNGARY IN THE AGE OF NATIONALISM -- Chapter 4 THE IMAGE OF THE OTHER IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Historical Scholarship in the Bohemian Lands -- Chapter 5 GENTRY, JEWS, AND PEASANTS Jews as Others in the Formation of the Modern Polish Nation in Rural Galicia during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 6 NATIONALIZING RURAL LANDSCAPES IN CISLEITHANIA, 1880-1914 -- Chapter 7 ETHNOLOGY, CULTURAL REIFICATION, AND THE DYNAMICS OF DIFFERENCE IN THE KRONPRINZENWERK -- Part Three THE LEGACY Where Images Collide -- Chapter 8 HUNGARIAN MOTIFS IN THE EMERGENCE AND THE DECLINE OF A CZECHOSLOVAK NATIONAL NARRATIVE, 1890-1930 -- Chapter 9 THE SOUTH SLAVS IN THE AUSTRIAN IMAGINATION Serbs and Slovenes in the Changing View from German Nationalism to National Socialism -- Chapter 10 PEOPLES OF THE MOUNTAINS, PEOPLES OF THE PLAINS Space and Ethnographic Representation -- Chapter 11 MARKING THE DIFFERENCE OR LOOKING FOR COMMON GROUND? Southeast Central Europe -- Chapter 12 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CREATING THE OTHER IN NATIONAL IDENTITY, ETHNIC ENMITY, AND RACISM -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX