{"id":34802,"date":"2026-06-16T09:39:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/ksiazek\/wyobrazone-stolice-miasta-monarchii-habsburskiej-jako-centra-narodow-1815-1919\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:47:10","slug":"wyobrazone-stolice-miasta-monarchii-habsburskiej-jako-centra-narodow-1815-1919","status":"publish","type":"ksiazek","link":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/ksiazek\/wyobrazone-stolice-miasta-monarchii-habsburskiej-jako-centra-narodow-1815-1919\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyobra\u017cone stolice. Miasta monarchii habsburskiej jako centra narod\u00f3w 1815\u20131919"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Can a capital city exist without a state? And can a city become the centre of a nation before that nation gains independence?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u0141ukasz Galusek\u2019s book explores nineteenth-century Central Europe, where nations without their own states created their own “imagined capitals<\/strong>“.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budapest, Bratislava, Ljubljana, Prague and Zagreb were not yet capital cities \u2013 at the beginning of the nineteenth century, they did not even play a significant metropolitan or political role \u2013 but even then they were becoming spaces in which a modern national identity was taking shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a story of ambitions, aspirations and symbols \u2013 of how architecture, urban planning, culture and historical memory forged a sense of community. Within a multi-ethnic empire, these cities became the “hearts” of nations even before they attained the status of official capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As early as the nineteenth century, they were perceived as the \u2018own\u2019 capitals of individual nations, and by the time independence was regained \u2013 in 1918 \u2013 they possessed an almost complete capital city programme, enabling them to assume this role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The author demonstrates that the status of a capital city is not merely a matter of politics, but above all of imagination and culture. By analysing the relationship not so much between the city and the authorities as between the city and the nation, he reveals the process of shaping the \u2018imagined capital\u2019 as a form of communal existence \u2013 even in the absence of political sovereignty. It is precisely through the city that a nation communicates its distinctiveness and constructs its spatial imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These imagined capitals also represent an attempt to answer the question of how stateless nations create their own centres and how \u2013 under political conditions that are unfavourable yet nevertheless offer certain opportunities \u2013 they realise, through urban forms, their desire for cultural and civilisational autonomy. This collection of five cities \u2013 ranging from Budapest, with a population of nearly one million, to Ljubljana, with a population of forty thousand \u2013 illustrates the full spectrum of Habsburg urbanity and the various paths to becoming a capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a book for anyone who wishes to understand how nations are formed \u2013 and what role cities play in this process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The twenty-fourth volume in the Library of Central Europe series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Table of Contents<\/summary>\n

Wprowadzenie

Stolica narodu
\u201eAbsolutyzm si\u0119 zu\u017cy\u0142 i powsta\u0142 nowy porz\u0105dek rzeczy\u201d
Budapeszt
Praga
Zagrzeb
Lublana
Bratys\u0142awa
\u201eNowoczesne Ateny\u201d ma\u0142ych narod\u00f3w
Podsumowanie

Kilka s\u0142\u00f3w o literaturze przedmiotu
Przypisy
Bibliografia
Indeks nazwisk
Indeks miejsc i obiekt\u00f3w
\u0179r\u00f3d\u0142a ilustracji
O autorze<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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Czy stolica mo\u017ce istnie\u0107 bez pa\u0144stwa? I czy miasto mo\u017ce si\u0119 sta\u0107 centrum narodu, zanim ten zdob\u0119dzie niepodleg\u0142o\u015b\u0107? Ksi\u0105\u017cka \u0141ukasza Galuska pokazuje dziewi\u0119tnastowieczn\u0105 Europ\u0119 \u015arodkow\u0105, w kt\u00f3rej pozbawione w\u0142asnych pa\u0144stw narody tworzy\u0142y swoje \u201ewyobra\u017cone stolice\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":31160,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"kategoria_ksiazek":[86],"dostepnosc":[123],"class_list":["post-34802","ksiazek","type-ksiazek","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategoria_ksiazek-biblioteka-europy-srodka-en","dostepnosc-kup-w-ksiegarni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ksiazek\/34802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ksiazek"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ksiazek"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ksiazek\/34802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34821,"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ksiazek\/34802\/revisions\/34821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategoria_ksiazek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategoria_ksiazek?post=34802"},{"taxonomy":"dostepnosc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dostepnosc?post=34802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}