Seite - 280 - in Universities in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918 - A Social History of a Multilingual Space

280 ♦  Universities in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918 World War I. One cannot understand processes in Vienna without looking at Cracow or Chernivtsi, just as one cannot understand processes taking place in L’viv without knowing about Graz; similarly, one cannot understand Vienna without taking Berlin into consideration, nor L’viv without Kiev. The Habsburg Empire changed within the sixty years described here, and so did its spaces and the spaces its subjects lived and communicated in. These spatial dynamics and the interdependence of different spaces would seem a rewarding topic for future research.