In the article, the case of the nineteenth century Croatian ethnology is analyzed against the context of Croatian imperial ambitions within the Habsburg Empire. It is argued that the dominant nation of the imperial state is not necessarily alone in pursuing the imperial project. The latter can also be carried out on its own by a small, subdued people of the empire. Boundaries between the (ethno)national and imperial may be ambiguous.
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The article tackles the current process of redefinition or reinvention of national identities in culturally plural and transnational contexts of the northeast Adriatic. The analysis is focused on several narratives about the sea and the Mediterranean in particular as a space both connective and divisive. It reveals a thorough revalorization of the sea as a resource and the new stress on mobility and cosmopolitanism in these national narratives.
COBISS.SI-ID: 37599842