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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reill, Dominique Kirchner, 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.