Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire

Total War and Everyday Life in World War I

AvMaureen Healy,Jay Winter

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

Del 17 i serien Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

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Maureen Healy examines the collapse of the Habsburg Empire from the perspective of everyday life in the capital city. She argues that a striking feature of 'total war' on the home front was the spread of a war mentality to the mundane sites of everyday life - streets, shops, schools, entertainment venues and apartment buildings. While Habsburg armies waged military campaigns on distant fronts, Viennese civilians (women, children, and men 'left at home') waged a protracted, socially devastating war against one another. Vienna's multi-ethnic population lived together in conditions of severe material shortage and faced near-starvation by 1917. The city fell into civilian mutiny before the state collapsed in 1918. Based on meticulous archival research, including citizens' letters to state authorities, the study offers a penetrating look at Habsburg citizenship by showing how ordinary women, men and children conceived of 'Austria' in the Empire's final years.

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Utgivningsdatum:2004-05-27
Mått:152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt:703 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521831246
Utmärkelser:Herbert Baxter Adams Prize awarded by the American Historical Association 2005

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MAUREEN HEALY is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Oregon State University. She was the winner of the Fraenkel Prize from the Wiener Library and Institute of Contemporary History, London, 2000.

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'Professor Healy's book is of interest to both the casual reader and the serious student of World War I. It must also be added that the social historian will be more than intrigued with this volume … Healy systematically, and in a very readable form, dissects the threads of discontent which eventually lead to the civilian rebellion in Vienna … Professor Healy highlights a number of significant points is this excellent book … What is presented here is a detailed study of civilian life in a situation of total war. Their fears, hopes and perceptions are clearly and carefully analysed. It is a book that will be frequently referred to and case study after case study will be quoted.' Open History

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List of plates; List of maps, figures and tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Politics and Representation: 1. Food and the politics of sacrifice; 2. Entertainment, propaganda and the Vienna War Exhibition of 1916–17; 3. Censorship, rumours and denunciation: the crisis of truth on the home front; Part II. State and Family: 4. Sisterhood and citizenship: 'Austria's women' in wartime Vienna; 5. Mobilizing Austria's children for total war; 6. The 'fatherless society': home-front men and imperial paternalism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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