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The Fiume Crisis - Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire (Hardcover)
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The Fiume Crisis - Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire (Hardcover)
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Recasting the birth of fascism, nationalism, and the fall of empire
after World War I, Dominique Kirchner Reill recounts how the people
of Fiume tried to recreate empire in the guise of the nation. The
Fiume Crisis recasts what we know about the birth of fascism, the
rise of nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I by
telling the story of the three-year period when the Adriatic city
of Fiume (today Rijeka, in Croatia) generated an international
crisis. In 1919 the multicultural former Habsburg city was occupied
by the paramilitary forces of the flamboyant poet-soldier Gabriele
D’Annunzio, who aimed to annex the territory to Italy and became
an inspiration to Mussolini. Many local Italians supported the
effort, nurturing a standard tale of nationalist fanaticism.
However, Dominique Kirchner Reill shows that practical realities,
not nationalist ideals, were in the driver’s seat. Support for
annexation was largely a result of the daily frustrations of life
in a “ghost state” set adrift by the fall of the empire.
D’Annunzio’s ideology and proto-fascist charisma
notwithstanding, what the people of Fiume wanted was prosperity,
which they associated with the autonomy they had enjoyed under
Habsburg sovereignty. In these twilight years between the world
that was and the world that would be, many across the former empire
sought to restore the familiar forms of governance that once
supported them. To the extent that they turned to nation-states, it
was not out of zeal for nationalist self-determination but in the
hope that these states would restore the benefits of cosmopolitan
empire. Against the too-smooth narrative of postwar nationalism,
The Fiume Crisis demonstrates the endurance of the imperial
imagination and carves out an essential place for history from
below.
General
Imprint: |
Harvard University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2020 |
Authors: |
Dominique Kirchner Reill
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 32mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
312 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-24424-5 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-674-24424-9 |
Barcode: |
9780674244245 |
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