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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.
List of contents
Part 1: Conceptual Opening2. Cities, Empires, and Eastern Europe: Imperial Cities in the Tsarist, the Habsburg, and the Ottoman Empires
Ulrich Hofmeister
Part 2: Manifestations of the Imperial in Urban Space
3. The Imperial Palaces in Comparative Perspective: Topkap¿, Kremlin, and Hofburg
Nilay Özlü
4. Temeswar as an Imperial City in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century
Robert Born
5. Imperial Power, Imperial Identity, and Kazan Architecture: Visualizing the Empire in a Nineteenth-Century Russian Province
Gulchachak Nugmanova
6. Bound by Difference: The Merger of Rostov and Nakhichevan-on-Don into an Imperial Metropolis during the Nineteenth Century
Michel Abesser
Part 3: The City as a Palimpsest of Empires
7. Guarding the Imperial Border: The Fortress City of Niš between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, 1690-1740
Florian Riedler
8. Empire after Empire: Austro-Hungarian Recalibration of the Ottoman ¿aršija of Sarajevo
Aida Murti¿
9. Lemberg or L'vov: The Symbolic Significance of a City at the Crossroads of the Austrian and the Russian Empires
Elisabeth Haid-Lener
10. Kars: Bridgehead of Empires
Elke Hartmann
11. (De)constructing Imperial Heritage: Moscow Zaryadye in Times of Transition
Olga Zabalueva
About the author
Ulrich Hofmeister is a historian at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he leads a research project on Russian city planning during the eighteenth century. His research interests include the imperial history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union as well as Russian urban history. He has published a monograph on Russian notions of an imperial civilizing mission in Central Asia (
Die Bürde des Weißen Zaren, 2019).
Florian Riedler is the scientific coordinator of the research network Transottomanica at the University of Leipzig, Germany. His research interests include Ottoman urban history, migration and mobility studies, and the history of infrastructure in the Ottoman Balkans. Among his latest publications is the co-edited volume
The Balkan Route: Historical Transformations from Via Militaris to Autoput, 2021.
Summary
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.
