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

• Superior document: Routledge Advances in Urban History Series
• Author: Hofmeister, Ulrich.
• TeilnehmendeR: Riedler, Florian.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Advances in Urban History Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 pages)

"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 diffusion of power within the empires while they also served as the stages where the empire was displayed in monumental architecture and public rituals. To this day, many cities possess a distinctively imperial legacy in the form of material remnants, groups of inhabitants, or memories that shape the perceptions of in- and outsiders. The contributions to this volume address in detail the imperial entanglements of a dozen cities from a long-term perspective reaching back to the eighteenth century. They analyze the imperial capitals as well as smaller cities in the periphery. All of them are "imperial cities" in the sense that they possess traces of imperial rule. By comparing the three empires of Eastern Europe this volume seeks to establish commonalities in this particular geography and highlight trans-imperial exchanges and entanglements. This volume is essential reading to students and scholars alike interested in imperial and colonial history, urban history and European history"-- Provided by publisher.

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.