Introduction / William Whyte and Oliver Zimmer
Section I. Contested Territory: 1. The municipal and the national in the Bohemian Lands, 1862-1914 / Jeremy King; 2. Venice 1848-1915: the Venetian sense of the past and the creation of the Italian nation / David Laven; 3 . Interpreting municipal celebrations of nation and empire: the Barcelona Universal Exhibition of 1888 / Stephen Jacobsen; 4. An urban civilization: the case of municipal autonomy in Belgian history 1830-1914 / Maarten Van Ginderachter
Section II. Towns and the Nation-State: 5. Nationalism and the defence town: the case of Karlskrona, Sweden / Mary Hilson; 6. Negotiating for garrisons in France at the beginning of Third Republic / Jean-François Chanet; 7. Wither the local? nationalization, modernization, and the mobilization of urban communities in England and France, c. 1900-18 / Pierre Purseigle; 8. Building the nation or the town? architecture and identity in Britain / William Whyte; 9. The nation is a town: the Netherlands and the urban content of the national "Imagined Community" / Henk te Velde; 10. Urban economies and the national imagination: the German South, 1860-1914 / Oliver Zimmer.
Nationalism and the reshaping of urban communities in Europe, 1848-1914. ISBN 9780230246287. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.