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Aristocratic Redoubt
The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War
Häftad, 1998
227 kr
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Aristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War is a study of the nobility who served in the foreign office prior to World War I. Following the lead of historians who are reexamining pre-industrial elites in England and Germany, Godsey deals with such …
Army of Francis Joseph
Häftad, 1999
285 kr
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The army was perhaps the most important single institution in the multinational empire of the Hapsburgs. The Austro-Hungarian dynasty survived through the military power it could command, and the rise and fall of the fortress of the Hapsburgs were mirrored accurately in the state of its military …
Falcon and the Eagle
Montenegro and Austria-Hungary, 1908-1914
Häftad, 1983
285 kr
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Treadway's work is the first comprehensive study of Montenegro's relations with her Great-Power neighbors on the eve of WWI.
Pietas Austriaca
Austrian Religious Practices in the Baroque Era
Av Anna Coreth, William D. Bowman
Häftad, 2004
220 kr
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Pietas Austriaca studies the relationship between religious beliefs and practices and Habsburg political culture from the end of the medieval period to the early 20th century. In this seminal work, Anna Coreth examines the ways that Catholic beliefs in the power of the Eucharist, the cross, the …
Staging the Past
The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present
Av Maria Bucur, Nancy M. Wingfield m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
285 kr
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This volume contains three sections of essays which examine the role of commemoration and public celebrations in the creation of a national identity in Habsburg lands. It also seeks to engage historians of culture and of nationalism in other geographic fields as well as colleagues who work on …
Naval Policy of Austria-Hungary 1867-1918
Navalism, Industrial Development, and the Politics of Dualism
Häftad, 1994
344 kr
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This detailed study charts the uneven growth of the Austrian navy from its high point following Archduke Ferdinand Max's administration and the War of 1866 to its ultimate dissolution after World War 1. In following this development, Lawrence Sondhaus not only relates the operational aspects of the …
Ambivalence of Identity
The Austrian Experience of Nation-building in a Modern Society
Av Peter Thaler
Inbunden, 2001
349 kr
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The Ambivalence of Identity examines nation-building in Austria and uses the Austrian experience to explore the conceptual foundations of nationhood. Traditionally, Hapsburg, Austria, has provided the background for these works. In the course of this study it should become clear that Republican …
Through Bosnian Eyes
The Political Memoirs of a Bosnian Serb
Häftad, 2004
294 kr
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Concurrent with the dawn of multiparty politics in 1990, Mirko Pejanovic emerged in Bosnia-Herzegovina as the leader of the Socialist Alliance. His organization was in charge of implementing policies of the League of Communists. This memoir, beginning in 1990, tells the story of his experiences as …
Silesia and Central European Nationalism
The Emergence of National and Ethnic Groups in Prussian Silesia and Austrian Silesia, 1848-1918
Häftad, 2006
461 kr
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The work analyzes the problems of nation building in the Central European region of Silesia during the years 1848-1918, which was influenced by Western European movements, especially German nationalism. The German ethnic model of nation building steeped in language and culture had been replicated …
Pomp and Politics of Patriotism
Imperial Celebrations in Habsburg, Austria 1848-1916
Häftad, 2006
344 kr
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This book examines the promotion and reception of the image of Franz Joseph (Habsburg emperor from 1848 to 1916) as a symbol of common identity in the Austrian half of the Habsburg Monarchy (Cisleithania). In the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century …
Politics of Ethnic Survival
Germans in Prague, 1861-1914
Häftad, 2006
402 kr
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The German-speaking inhabitants of the Bohemian capital developed a group identification and defined themselves as a minority as they dealt with growing Czech political and economic strength in the city and with their own sharp numerical decline: in the 1910 census only seven percent of the …
Germans and the East
Av Franz a. J. Szabo, Charles Ingaro m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
607 kr
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This volume provides an historical overview of the relationship between Germany, German speakers, and successive waves of German colonists with their eastern neighbors over the period from the Middle Ages to the present. The collection of essays by 28 leading experts includes the most recent …
State Collapse in South-Eastern Europe
New Perspectives on Yugoslavia's Disintegration
Av Lenard J. Cohen, Jasna Dragovic-Soso
Häftad, 2007
563 kr
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State Collapse in Southeastern Europe: New Perspectives on Yugoslavia's Disintegration is a multidisciplinary approach exploring the historical antecedents and the dynamic process of Yugoslavia's violent dissolution, drawing upon the most recently available resources. The volume, a compilation by …
Empire and Identity
Biographies of the Austrian State Problem in the Late Habsburg Empire
Häftad, 2008
375 kr
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Empire and Identity is a novel approach to the critical last decades of the Habsburg Empire. The book is organized as three dual political biographies, each focusing a certain problem in the development of the Imperial Austrian state in the early twentieth century. The biographical approach also …
Balkan Anschluss
The Annexation of Montenegro and the Creation of the Common South Slavic State
Häftad, 2007
402 kr
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Balkan Anschluss tackles the thorny issue of the disappearance of Montenegro as a sovereign state in the course of and as a result of the First World War - a problem with clear contemporary relevance. In particular, Pavlovic investigates the ambiguous and often troubled relationship between two …
Serbia's Great War
1914-1918
Inbunden, 2007
830 kr
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Mitrovic's volume fills the gap in Balkan history by presenting an in-depth look at Serbia and its role in WWI. The Serbian experience was in fact of major significance in this war. In the interlocking development of the wartime continent, Serbia's plight is part of a European jigsaw. Also, the …
Yugoslavia
A State That Withered Away
Av Dejan Jovic
Häftad, 2008
563 kr
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The disintegration of Yugoslavia was the result of many factors, not of a single one, but the primary one - the author argues - was commitment of the Yugoslav political elite to the Marxist ideology of ""withering away of the state."" Ideology had a central place in Yugoslav politics. The trend of …
Habsburg Lemberg
Architecture, Public Space, and Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772-1914
Häftad, 2008
563 kr
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When Austria annexed Galicia during the first partition of Poland in 1772, the province's capital Lemberg was a decaying Baroque town. By the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Lemberg had become a booming city with a modern, urban and, at the same time, distinctly Habsburg flavor. In the …
Of Mind and Matter
The Duality of National Identity in the German-Danish Borderlands
Av Peter Thaler
Häftad, 2009
344 kr
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Of Mind and Matter analyzes identity formation in the multicultural border region of Sleswig. It highlights the changeability of national sentiments and explores what has motivated local inhabitants to define themselves as Germans or Danes. The analysis focuses especially on the respective national …
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Ideal
Selected Essays and Addresses, 1906-1027
Häftad, 2011
318 kr
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The Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was one of the great modernists in the German language, but his importance as a major intellectual of the early twentieth century has not received adequate attention in the English-speaking world. One distinguished literary scholar of his …
Peace of Passarowitz, 1718
Av Charles Ingrao, Nikola Samardzic m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
430 kr
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In the late spring of 1718 near the village of Požarevac (German Passarowitz) in northern Serbia, freshly conquered by Habsburg forces, three delegations representing the Holy Roman Emperor, Ottoman Sultan, and the Republic of Venice gathered to end the conflict that had begun three and a half …
Memory Factory
The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900
Häftad, 2012
635 kr
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The Memory Factory introduces an English-speaking public to the significant women artists of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, each chosen for her aesthetic innovations and participation in public exhibitions. These women played important public roles as exhibiting artists, both …
Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies
A Scholar's Initiative
Av Charles Ingrao, Thomas A. Emmert
Häftad, 2012
461 kr
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It has been two decades since Yugoslavia fell apart. The brutal conflicts that followed its dissolution are over, but the legacy of the tragedy continues to unsettle the region. Reconciliation is a long and difficult process that necessitates a willingness to work together openly and objectively in …
Composing the Party Line
Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany
Häftad, 2013
461 kr
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This book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. It presents a comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of …
Lemberg, Lwów, L'viv, 1914-1947
Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City
Häftad, 2015
461 kr
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Known as Lemberg in German and Lwów in Polish, the city of L’viv in modern Ukraine was in the crosshairs of imperial and national aspirations for much of the twentieth century. This book tells the compelling story of how its inhabitants (Roman Catholic Poles, Greek Catholic Ukrainians, and Jews) …
Center Stage
Operatic Culture and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe
Av Philipp Ther
Häftad, 2014
461 kr
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Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed in the course of the "long" …
Apple of Discord
The "Hungarian Factor" in Austro-Serbian Relations, 1867–1881
Häftad, 2014
461 kr
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When seeking the origins of World War I, the chain of events in the late nineteenth century that led to the breakdown of relations between Austria-Hungary and Serbia and facilitated the rise of an aggressive Serbian nationalism needs to be understood. This book focuses on the hitherto unexplored …
Charmed Circle
Joseph II and the ‘Five Princesses,’ 1765-1790
Häftad, 2015
461 kr
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In late eighteenth-century Vienna a remarkable coterie of five aristocratic women, popularly known as the “five princesses,” achieved social preeminence and acclaim as close associates of the reforming Habsburg Emperor Joseph II. They were Princess Maria Josepha Clary (1728–1801); Princess Maria …
Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918
A Social History of a Multilingual Space
Av Jan Surman
Häftad, 2018
563 kr
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Combining history of science and a history ofuniversities with the new imperial history, Universitiesin Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyzes the practice of scholarly migration and its lastinginfluence on the intellectual output in the Austrian …
History of Yugoslavia
Häftad, 2019
680 kr
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Why did Yugoslavia fall apart? Was its violent demise inevitable? Did its population simply fall victim to the lure of nationalism? How did this multinational state survive for so long, and where do we situate the short life of Yugoslavia in the long history of Europe in the twentieth century? The …
