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As Ernest Gellner (1983) suggests, the narrative of modernisation is one of the necessary prerequisites for the success of nationalist projects. In line with his argument, this chapter will be an investigation into this narrative in the German-language periodical Agramer Tagblatt published in Zagreb in 1918. Special attention will be paid to the newspaper Agramer Tagblatt because it reflects the conflict between imperial loyalty and its competing relationship with national integration discourses of Croatian and South Slav provenance. From their very beginning, in the first phase from 1786 until 1848 up until 1918 German-language periodicals in Zagreb were marked by their cultural and national-integrative mission, so their decline after World War I is interpreted as a result of strong pro-Yugoslav propaganda. |
