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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.
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