Microcosmi cittadini: città e nazionalismi nel Medio Oriente europeo

Urban microcosms. City and Nationalisms in middle eastern Europe
Through the history of four cities – Thessaloniki, Vilnius, Leopoli, and Breslau – this essay discusses the problem of the relationship between cities and nationalisms in Europe’s twentieth century, demonstrating how the rise of the latter and its often violent interaction with the former irreversibly changed the human and cultural face of the urban centers taken into consideration, which represent a concrete example of the phenomenon of an un-mixing of people characteristic of twentieth century European history.