{"product_id":"9781441118233","title":"Vienna's Dreams of Europe: Culture and Identity Beyond the Nation-State","description":"\u003ci\u003eVienna's Dreams of Europe\u003c\/i\u003e puts forward a convincing counter-narrative to the prevailing story of Austria's place in Europe since the Enlightenment. For a millennium, Austrian writers have used images of Europe and its hegemonic culture as their political and cultural reference points. Yet in discussions of Europe's nation-states, Austria appears only as an afterthought, no matter that its precursor states-the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian Empire, and Austria Hungary-represented a globalized European cultural space outside the dominant paradigm of nationalist colonialism. Austrian writers today confront reunited Europe in full acknowledgment of Austro-Hungary's multicultural heritage, which mixes various nationalities, ethnicities, and cultural forms, including ancestors from the Balkans and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenging standard accounts of 18th- through 20th-century European imperial identity construction, \u003ci\u003eVienna's Dreams of Europe\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a group of Austrian public intellectuals and authors who have since the 18th century construed their own public as European. Working in different terms than today's theorist-critics of the hegemonic West, Katherine Arens posits a political identity resisting two hundred years of European nationalism.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134482628848,"sku":"9781441118233","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781441118233_p0.jpg?v=1763789474","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781441118233","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}