List of Illustrations Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Nationalism's Urban Imagination; W.Whyte & O.Zimmer PART I: CONTESTED TERRITORY The Municipal and the National in the Bohemian Lands, 1862-1914; J.King Venice 1848-1914: The Venetian Sense of the Past and the Creation of the Italian Nation; D.Laven Contesting Images of the Nation between Spain and Catalonia: The Barcelona World Fair of 1888; S.Jacobsen An Urban Civilization: The Nation and the Town in Belgian History, 1848-1914; M.Van Ginderachter PART II: TOWNS AND THE NATION STATE Nationalism and the Defence Town: The Case of Karlskrona; M.Hilson The Garrisons Market in France in the Early Years of the Third Republic; J-F.Chanet Wither the Local? Nationalization, Modernization, and the Mobilization of Urban Communities in England and France, 1900-1918; P.Purseigle Building the Nation in the Town? Architecture and Identity in Britain; W.Whyte The Nation is a Town: The Netherlands and the Urban Content of the National 'Imagined Community'; H.te Velde Urban Economies and Imaginating Nationhood in the German South, 1860-1900; O.Zimmer Conclusion; J.Brueilly Concluding Remarks and Observations