The essays in this volume analyse issues of national and regional identity during a key phase of nation-state formation in mid-nineteenth century Europe. By asking how contemporaries articulated regional and national identities, the book offers a fresh prospective on the process of nationalization in modern German, Austrian and Italian histories.

ALBERTO MARIO BANTI Professor of Contemporary History, University of Pisa, ItalyNIKOLAUS BUSCHMANN Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Modern History, University of Tübingen, GermanyEVA CECCHINATO Researcher, University of Turin, ItalyMARK CORNWALL Professor of Modern European History, University of Southampton, UKERWIN FINK freelance Scholarly Translator and Editor and PhD graduate, University of Toronto, CanadaHANS HEISS formerly Deputy Director of the Provincial Archive in South Tyrol, now a member of the South Tyrolean Regional Parliament, AustriaEWALD HIEBL Lecturer in Austrian History, Department of History and Political Sciences, University of Salzburg, AustriaMAX VÖGLER Programme Officer, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, GermanyANNA MILLO Lecturer in Contemporary History, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bari, ItalyCLAIRE NOLTE Professor of History, Manhattan College in New York, USADOMINIQUE REILL Fellow at the Remarque Institute for the Study of Europe and Visiting Fellow at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, New York University, USA

Preface; G.E.Rusconi Introduction: Re-examining National Identity in Nineteenth-century Central Europe and Italy; L.Cole A Mission of Meditation: Dalmatia's Multi-National Regionalism form the 1830s - 1860s; D.Reill 'Unity Versus Fragmentation': The Politics of Region-Building and National Identities in Tyrol, 1830-1867; L.Cole& H.Heiss Trieste, 1830-70: from Cosmopolitanism to the Nation; A.Millo Voluntary Associations and the Building of Czech and German Nations in Nineteeth-Century Prague; C.Nolte German, Austrian or "Salzburgerisch"? National Identities in Salzburg c.1830-70; E.Hiebl Searching for a Role: Austrian Rule, National Perspectives and Memories of 'the Serenissima'in Venice (1848-66); E.Cecchinato The Construction of National Identities in the Northern Bohemian Borderland 1848-71; M.Cornwall Between the Federative Nation and the National State: Public Perceptions of the Foundation of the German Empire in Southern Germany and Austria; N.Buschmann Similar Paths, Different 'Nations'?: Ultramontanisation and the Old Catholic Movement in Upper Austria 1870-1; M.Vögler Symbolic Representations of the Nation: Baden, Bavaria, and Saxony c.1860-80; E.Fink Conclusions: Performative Effects and 'deep images' in the Discourse of National Identities; A.M.Banti