Understanding multiculturalism : the Habsburg Central European experience / Johannes Feichtinger and Gary B. Cohen -- Heterogeneities and homogeneities : on similarities and diversities / Anil Bhatti -- Mestizaje and hybrid culture : toward a transnational cultural memory of Europe and the development of cultural theories in Latin America / Michael Rössner -- Do multiple languages mean a multicultural society? nationalist "frontiers" in rural Austria, 1880-1918 / Pieter M. Judson -- Multiculturalism, Polish style : glimpses from the interwar period / Patrice M. Dabrowski -- Multiculturalism against the state : lessons from Istria / Pamela Ballinger -- Migration in Austria : an overview of the 1920s to 2000s / Michael John -- The slice of desire : intercultural practices versus national loyalties in the peripheral multiethnic society of Central Europe at the beginning of twentieth century / Oto Luthar -- On "neighbors" and "strangers" : the literary motif of "Central Europe" as Lieu de memoire / Andrei Corbea-Hoisie -- Culture as a space of communication / Moritz Csáky