Laurence Cole is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Für Gott, Kaiser und Vaterland: Nationale Identität der deutschsprachigen Bevölkerung Tirols 1860-1914 (2000), and has recently edited Different Paths to the Nation: National and Regional Identities in Central Europe and Italy, 1830-1870 (2007). He is also co-editor of European History Quarterly.

List of Illustrations

Introduction
Laurence Cole and Daniel L. Unowsky

Chapter 1. Patriotic and national myths: National consciousness and elementary school education in imperial Austria
Ernst Bruckmüller

Chapter 2. Military veterans and popular patriotism in imperial Austria, 1870-1914
Laurence Cole

Chapter 3. Emperor Joseph II in the Austrian imagination to 1914
Nancy M. Wingfield

Chapter 4. The flyspecks on Palivec's portrait: Francis Joseph, the symbols of monarchy, and Czech popular loyalty
Hugh LeCaine Agnew

Chapter 5. Celebrating two emperors and a revolution: The public contest to represent the Polish and Ruthenian nations in 1880
Daniel L. Unowsky

Chapter 6. Empress Elisabeth as Hungarian queen: The uses of celebrity monarchism
Alice Freifeld

Chapter 7. State ritual and ritual parody: Croatian student protest and the limits of loyalty at the end of the nineteenth-century
Sarah Kent

Chapter 8. Collective identifications and Austro-Hungarian Jews (1914-1918): The contradictions and travails of Avigdor Hameiri
Alon Rachamimov

Chapter 9. Representing constitutional monarchy in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain, Germany, and Austria
Christiane Wolf

Afterword
R.J.W. Evans

Notes on contributors

Select bibliography

Index