The Fiume crisis : life in the wake of the Habsburg Empire /
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 fo...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Christmas of blood
- Concealing histories: the different Fiume stories
- Follow the money: the currency crisis
- Legal ins and outs: crafting local sovereignty
- Between city and state: the contradictions of citizenship
- A sense of self: propaganda and nationalism
- Conclusion: When empire disappears.