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New Publication November 2025

 

 

 

 

 

Cristian Ploscaru, Cosmin Mihuț, and Mihai-Bogdan Atanasiu (editors)

Old Cities, Former Capitals and the
Nation-State Building in Southeastern Europe:
Regional and National Identities

348 pages incl. 16 colored pages. € 49,80. ISBN 978-3-86628-854-6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our volume presents several case studies on the forms of regional and national identities in the cultural

and political discourse of modernity, as well as in the political geography of nation-states. The starting

point for this volume was the international conference Old Cities, Former Capitals and Nation State Building

in Europe (18th-20th Centuries): Regional and National Identities (Iaşi, Romania, November 19-21, 2024),

which initiated a debate on the transformations that many of the "old cities" – some of them former capitals –

underwent over two centuries of nation-state formation. These old cities, with their long histories as centers of

political power and regional cohesion, experienced significant changes in the context of the rise of nationalism

and the consolidation of nation-states. Some stood at the heart of these transformations, while others were

pushed to the periphery. Therefore, our volume does not examine regionalism as a counterweight to the

nation-state, but rather explores regional identities as forms of collective identity that predate or exist in a

subsidiary relationship to national identity. At the same time, the concept of territory plays a key role in our

analysis - understood not only in a geographical sense, but also as a dynamic relationship between people,

power, and space.

 

 

It is the volume of the international conference

Old Cities, Former Capitals and the Nation-State Building in Southeastern Europe (18th-20th centuries):

Regional and National Identities,

which took place in Iași in November 2024, being included in the program of scientific events of the

COIMBRA University Alliance.

 

Xose M. Nunez Seixas, the author of the study that opens the volume,

is one of Europe's leading scholars on collective identities in the modern and contemporary era.

 

Contents:

 

Regionalism: Analytical Approaches

 

Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, Regionalism and Interwar Fascism (1919-1945): Some Notes for a Discussion

Sorin Paliga, The Terminology of the Urban v. Rural Organisation, and its Reflections in Romanian

 

Moving Cities: Urban Culture and Community Identity in Change

 

Radu Mârza, From Kolozsvár to Cluj, from Pozsony and Pressburg to Bratislava on Postcards (After 1918)

Tatiana Scurtu, Voyageurs roumains et étrangers visitant les bains de Vâlcele à partir de trois sièges au XIXe siècle

Edmond Malaj, The City of Shkodra and its Importance for the Albanian Economy, Education, and National Culture
in the 19th Century

Yanna Dimitriou, Reading Associations in 19th Century Corfu: Shaping Identities Between
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism

Mircea-Cristian Ghenghea, Plagiarism and University Life in Romania at the End of the 19th Century.
The Case of the University of Iaşi

Tatsiana Varabei “Styl kościoła i ołtarzy tak zwykły u nas w kraju… ”: Multicultural Perspectives on the
Baroque Architecture of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Early 20th Century

Sebastian-Dragoș Bunghez, Maria Alexandra Pantea, Wilsonian Ideas Debated in Arad, the Political Capital
of the Great Union of 1918

Jérémy Floutier, La représentation des villes transylvaines dans les manuels scolaires hongrois de 1920 à 1989

Zornitsa Draganova, Veliko Tarnovo: Identity Narratives and Community Building Before and After 1989

 

Historical Identity and Culture in National Context

 

Cosmin Mihuț, Provincial Mores versus Shared Political Ideas: Foreign Officials' Observations on
Moldo-Wallachian Elite in the mid-Nineteenth Century 

Cristian Ploscaru, Mihai-Bogdan Atanasiu, Parochialism, Local Power and Identity: Iasi Kishinev
and Chernivtsi in the Second Half of the 19th Century

Alexandru Daneș, Nation and Nationalism in Romanian Territorial Heraldry (1859-1989)

Gheorghe Negru, La peur du „danger roumain” comme pretexte pour intensifier la russification
en Bessarabie (seconde moitié du XIXè siècle)

Lucian Turcu, Rebuilding the Pantheon after the Great Union: The Celebration of the
Centenary of Avram Iancu's Birth (1924)

Joel Sidler, State Formation and Local Development in Argentina. Theoretical Dialogues from the Periphery

 

Dramatic Past, Uncertain Future: Building Identities in Wartime

 

Mădălin Anghel, Local Revolt or National Uprising?
Interpreting the Events in Iasi in the Spring of 1848 through Great Power Consular Reports

Mihai Tudosă, Boosting Morale in the Nation’s Darkest Hour.
The Newspaper „România, organ al apărării naționale”, Iași, 1917-1918

Elena Negru, L’Union soviétique comme ,,machine” pour la fabrication des nations.
Le projet stalinien d’ingénierie ethnoculturelle  en  RSS Moldave (1940-1941, 1944-1953)

Blagoj Conev, The Nationalism as a Factor for the Dissolution of Yugoslavia and
the Western Concept of Nation-State

Anatolie Bajora, The Emergence and Development of the National Movement of the Gagauz
in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (1988–1991)

 

 

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