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© 2020, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847110606 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737010603 simply taken as a nation state. Thus, tentatively, it seems that a different ap- proach–theoppositeperspective–wouldbemoresuitableforacomprehensive analysisoftheempireasawhole.It istrue,thatfromsuchaperspectiveAustria- Hungarylooksmorestructuredthananempireisusuallyassumedtobe.It isnot just a single (or two)metropolitan centerswith their peripheries, but rather a morerefined,andmoreunevensystemofrelationsbetweencentersandregions and between these regions, too. Looking at how certain regions and localities were related to the centers and to other regions could offer a chance to re- construct theempire frombelowandtoovercomethedualitysooftenreflected in the literature: the co-existence of a complex, imperial Cisleithania and a unitaryHungariannationstate. RegionalElites,NationalistPolitics, LocalAccommodations 353