Book Presentation: Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire by Catherine Horel

The presentation of the book Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire, 1880-1914. Imagined Communities and Conflictual Encounters by Catherine Horel (CEU Press, 2023) will take place on Thursday, 10 April, at 5 p.m., at the Department of Humanities of the University of Trieste.
(Open-access link to the book: click here)

The book, the result of extensive and passionate research, offers a comparative analysis of 12 cities within the Habsburg Empire, including Trieste. It examines aspects of daily life such as education, associations, culture, and economy. Horel’s study presents an image of an empire whose urban centres were marked by cultural and political dynamism despite ongoing national conflicts.

The author will be joined in discussion by historians Borut Klabjan, Francesco Toncich, and Tullia Catalan.