Staging the Past

Preface
Foreword
Introduction
Imperial Attempts to Establish Commemorative Practices
Reasserting Empire: Habsburg Imperial Celebrations after the Revolutions of 1848–1849, by Daniel Unowsky
Kraus’s Firework: State Consciousness Raising in the 1908 Jubilee Parade in Vienna and the Problem of Austrian Identity, by Steven Beller
Contestation from the Margins
Patriotic Celebrations in Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Tirol, by Laurence Cole
The Nationalization of East Central Europe: Ethnicism, Ethnicity, and Beyond, by Jeremy King
Rural Myth and the Modern Nation: Peasant Commemorations of Polish National Holidays, 1879–1910, by Keely Stauter-Halsted
Statues of Emperor Joseph II as Sites of German Identity, by Nancy M. Wingfield
Legacies and Contestations in the Successor States
Religious Heroes for a Secular State: Commemorating Jan Hus and Saint Wenceslas in 1920s Czechoslovakia, by Cynthia J. Paces
Scattered Graves, Ordered Cemeteries: Commemorating Serbia’s Wars of National Liberation, 1912–1918, by Melissa Bokovoy
The Cult of March 15: Sustaining the Hungarian Myth of Revolution, 1849–1999, by Alice Freifeld
Birth of a Nation: Commemorations of December 1, 1918 and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Romania, by Maria Bucur
Select Bibliography
Contributors
Index