{"id":51025,"date":"2026-01-19T20:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=51025"},"modified":"2026-01-19T20:45:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:45:45","slug":"maciej-czerwinski-imagining-space-and-heritage-competing-modern-national-narratives-on-dalmatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=51025","title":{"rendered":"Maciej Czerwi\u0144ski, &#8220;Imagining Space and Heritage. Competing Modern National Narratives on Dalmatia&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although Dalmatia is not at the core of the contemporary imagination of the Habsburg Empire, which has recently been idealised in scholarship, it shares several similarities with the majority of the ex-Habsburg borderlands, one of which is its complex ethnic makeup in the period of politicisation of a modern nationalist agenda (1890\u20131941). In this volume, the author deals with the most important Croatian, Italian and Serbian discourses that shaped the space and defined the heritage of Dalmatia. They organised spatial knowledge by bringing about competing mental maps which envisaged Dalmatia in national or regional terms. The book, focusing on prominent writers and societal actors, could also be seen as a contribution to intellectual history or the history of ideas on these Dalmatian borderlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acknowledgements<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note on the spelling of toponyms and translations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Methodological Framework<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dalmatia from a Historical Perspective<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dalmatia in the Imagination 1890\u20131941<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Travel Writing and the Discovery of National Dalmatia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Literature and Heritage\u2014the Quest for Dubrovnik<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aestheticising Space<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ruptures in a Projected National Space\u2014Croatian North and South<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chiselling a Nation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Italianity and Irredentism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Letter to the Dalmatians. A Poet\u2019s Voice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dalmatia in Geographical Discourse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discourse of Asymmetry: Dalmatia\u2019s civilt\u00e0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dalmatian Spirit in the Yugoslav Nationalistic Discourse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Sea-Oriented Nation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Epilogue: The Case of Esilio of Enzo Bettiza<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bibliography<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Brill | V&amp;R unipress (De Gruyter Brill)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>eBook published on: November 10, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>eBook ISBN: 9783737019019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edition: 1. 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