TY - GEN N1 - p. 43-64 N2 - This text discusses the formation of Slovenian local elites in Trieste in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A significant part of the analysis presented here concerns the habitus of the elite and the attitudes expressed through the significance they attached to being members of the elite. Drawing on the discourses presented in the Slovenian and Croatian press published in Trieste, as well as biographical sources, this article outlines the vision of society held by the political leaders of the local community. It emphasises how the elites gave expression to their habitus in the public sphere through a variety of institutional activities. I argue that the life of the Slovenian politician and social activist Ivan Nabergoj, a figure central to this text, constitutes an ideal-type committed biography. In conclusion, I address the relationship between the elites and the surrounding community, arguing that elites were representatives of the community while also determining the forms of group belonging by their shaping of mechanisms of consolidation. In this article, I also consider the particularities of the political conditions of Slovenians living in the Slavic-Italian borderlands. L1 - http://www.rcin.org.pl/Content/138256/PDF/WA303_173019_A296-APH-R-121_Falski.pdf M3 - Text J2 - Acta Poloniae Historica T. 121 (2020) J2 - Local Elites in the Habsburg Monarchy after 1868 PY - 2020 EP - 64 KW - Trieste (Italy; region) KW - Nabergoj, Ivan (1835-1902) KW - Slovenia - history - autonomy and independence movements KW - Slovenia - intellectual life - history KW - Slovenes - Italy - Trieste - intellectual life KW - Slovenian intellectuals KW - local elites KW - Slavic elites KW - habitus KW - Slovenian culture A1 - Falski, Maciej A2 - Hartzell, James. Ed. A2 - Polska Akademia Nauk. Komitet Nauk Historycznych A2 - Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PB - Instytut Historii PAN VL - 121 CY - Warszawa SP - 43 T1 - Slovenian Elites in Trieste and Their Role in the Formation of Local Communities UR - http://www.rcin.org.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/138256 ER -