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Diversity and Dissent
Negotiating Religious Difference in Central Europe, 1500-1800
Av Howard Louthan, Gary B. Cohen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1921 kr
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Early modern Central Europe was the continent’s most decentralized region politically and its most diverse ethnically and culturally. With the onset of the Reformation, it also became Europe’s most religiously divided territory and potentially its most explosive in terms of confessional conflict …
Vienna Is Different
Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-de-Siècle to the Present
Inbunden, 2011
2209 kr
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Assessing the impact of fin-de-siècle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in the …
Sexual Knowledge
Feeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934
Inbunden, 2012
1979 kr
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Vienna’s unique intellectual, political, and religious traditions had a powerful impact on the transformation of sexual knowledge in the early twentieth century. Whereas turn-of-the-century sexology, as practiced in Vienna as a medical science, sought to classify and heal individuals, during the …
Journeys Into Madness
Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Av Gemma Blackshaw, Sabine Wieber
Inbunden, 2012
1979 kr
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At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud’s investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this ‘territory’ in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sanatoriums were the new tourism destinations, psychiatrists were collecting art works …
Crime, Jews and News
Vienna 1890-1914
Häftad, 2011
543 kr
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Crimes committed by Jews, especially ritual murders, have long been favorite targets in the antisemitic press. This book investigates popular and scientific conceptualizations of criminals current in Austria and Germany at the turn of the last century and compares these to those in the contemporary …
Territorial Revisionism and the Allies of Germany in the Second World War
Goals, Expectations, Practices
Av Marina Cattaruzza, Stefan Dyroff m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1936 kr
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A few years after the Nazis came to power in Germany, an alliance of states and nationalistic movements formed, revolving around the German axis. That alliance, the states involved, and the interplay between their territorial aims and those of Germany during the interwar period and World War II are …
Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture
Av Charlotte Ashby, Tag Gronberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1936 kr
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The Viennese café was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, …
Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Cross-disciplinary Perspectives
Av David F. Good, Margarete Grandner m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
526 kr
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This volume, the first of its kind in English, brings together scholars from different disciplines who address the history of women in Austria, as well as their place in contemporary Austrian society, from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, thus shedding new light on …
Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Cross-disciplinary Perspectives
Av David F. Good, Margarete Grandner m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1936 kr
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This volume, the first of its kind in English, brings together scholars from different disciplines who address the history of women in Austria, as well as their place in contemporary Austrian society, from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, thus shedding new light on …
From World War to Waldheim
Culture and Politics in Austria and the United States
Inbunden, 1999
1916 kr
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The growing internationalization of the world poses a fundamental question, i.e., through what mechanisms does culture diffuse across political boundaries and what is the role of politics in shaping this diffusion? This volume offers some answers through the case study of the relationship between …
Rethinking Vienna 1900
Inbunden, 2001
1936 kr
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Fin-de-siècle Vienna remains a central event in the birth of the century's modern culture. Our understanding of what happened in those key decades in Central Europe at the turn of the century has been shaped in the last years by an historiography presided over by Carl Schorske's Fin de Siècle …
Rethinking Vienna 1900
Häftad, 2001
543 kr
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Fin-de-siècle Vienna remains a central event in the birth of the century's modern culture. Our understanding of what happened in those key decades in Central Europe at the turn of the century has been shaped in the last years by an historiography presided over by Carl Schorske's Fin de Siècle …
Great Tradition and Its Legacy
The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe
Av Michael Cherlin, Halina Filipowicz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1916 kr
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Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often controversial originally but now considered as classics, are still performed regularly in Vienna, …
Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe
Av Pieter M. Judson, Marsha L. Rozenblit
Inbunden, 2004
1880 kr
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The hundred years between the revolutions of 1848 and the population transfers of the mid-twentieth century saw the nationalization of culturally complex societies in East Central Europe. This fact has variously been explained in terms of modernization, state building and nation-building theories, …
Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe
Av Pieter M. Judson, Marsha L. Rozenblit
Häftad, 2006
454 kr
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The hundred years between the revolutions of 1848 and the population transfers of the mid-twentieth century saw the nationalization of culturally complex societies in East Central Europe. This fact has variously been explained in terms of modernization, state building and nation-building theories, …
Creating the Other
Ethnic Conflict & Nationalism in Habsburg Central Europe
Inbunden, 2003
1916 kr
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The historic myths of a people/nation usually play an important role in the creation and consolidation of the basic concepts from which the self-image of that nation derives. These concepts include not only images of the nation itself, but also images of other peoples. Although the construction of …
Creating the Other
Ethnic Conflict & Nationalism in Habsburg Central Europe
Häftad, 2004
560 kr
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The historic myths of a people/nation usually play an important role in the creation and consolidation of the basic concepts from which the self-image of that nation derives. These concepts include not only images of the nation itself, but also images of other peoples. Although the construction of …
Great Tradition and Its Legacy
The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe
Av Michael Cherlin, Halina Filipowicz m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
526 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often controversial originally but now considered as classics, are still performed regularly in Vienna, …
Vienna Is Different
Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-de-Siècle to the Present
Häftad, 2013
588 kr
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Assessing the impact of fin-de-siecle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in the …
Understanding Multiculturalism
The Habsburg Central European Experience
Av Johannes Feichtinger, Gary B. Cohen
Inbunden, 2014
1916 kr
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Multiculturalism has long been linked to calls for tolerance of cultural diversity, but today many observers are subjecting the concept to close scrutiny. After the political upheavals of 1968, the commitment to multiculturalism was perceived as a liberal manifesto, but in the post-9/11 era, it is …
Sacrifice and Rebirth
The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War
Av Mark Cornwall, John Paul Newman
Inbunden, 2016
1979 kr
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When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotten across all the …
Territorial Revisionism and the Allies of Germany in the Second World War
Goals, Expectations, Practices
Av Marina Cattaruzza, Stefan Dyroff m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
543 kr
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A few years after the Nazis came to power in Germany, an alliance of states and nationalistic movements formed, revolving around the German axis. That alliance, the states involved, and the interplay between their territorial aims and those of Germany during the interwar period and World War II are …
Viennese CafA (c) and Fin-de-SiAcle Culture
Av Charlotte Ashby, Tag Gronberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
467 kr
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The Viennese cafe was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, …
Sexual Knowledge
Feeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934
Häftad, 2015
543 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Vienna's unique intellectual, political, and religious traditions had a powerful impact on the transformation of sexual knowledge in the early twentieth century. Whereas turn-of-the-century sexology, as practiced in Vienna as a medical science, sought to classify and heal individuals, during the …
Tropics of Vienna
Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire
Inbunden, 2016
2209 kr
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The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a quasi-colonial arrangement that inevitably …
Monumental Nation
Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary
Av Bálint Varga
Inbunden, 2016
1936 kr
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From the 1860s onward, Habsburg Hungary attempted a massive project of cultural assimilation to impose a unified national identity on its diverse populations. In one of the more quixotic episodes in this “Magyarization,” large monuments were erected near small towns commemorating the medieval …
Understanding Multiculturalism
The Habsburg Central European Experience
Av Johannes Feichtinger, Gary B. Cohen
Häftad, 2016
532 kr
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Multiculturalism has long been linked to calls for tolerance of cultural diversity, but today many observers are subjecting the concept to close scrutiny. After the political upheavals of 1968, the commitment to multiculturalism was perceived as a liberal manifesto, but in the post-9/11 era, it is …
Sacrifice and Rebirth
The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War
Av Mark Cornwall, John Paul Newman
Häftad, 2018
543 kr
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When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotten across all the …
Embers of Empire
Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918
Av Paul Miller, Claire Morelon
Inbunden, 2018
2117 kr
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The collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of World War I ushered in a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities. Yet this transformed landscape inevitably still bore the traces of its imperial past. Breaking with traditional histories …
Entangled Entertainers
Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Av Klaus Hödl
Inbunden, 2019
1752 kr
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Viennese popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century was the product of the city’s Jewish and non-Jewish residents alike. While these two communities interacted in a variety of ways to their mutual benefit, Jewish culture was also inevitably shaped by the city’s persistent bouts of …
