Austria category: 467 books
by Frederick Shoberl
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Austria : Containing a Description of the Manners, Customs, Character and Costumes of the People of that Empire
The population of the Austrian dominions is composed of different races, each having particular manners and even a peculiar language. All these nations are far from being actuated...
Global Austria
Austria's place in Europe and the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Austria transformed itself from an empire to a small Central European country. Formerly an important player in international affairs, the new republic was quickly sidelined by the European concert of powers. The enormous losses of territory and...
Ambition and Reality
Austria's Foreign Policy since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
The authors' analysis sheds light on Austria's foreign policy after the Second World war and offers insights into recent developments based on many years of experience in the diplomatic service. This book describes the most important issues of the Second Republic's foreign policy in a succinct yet captivating...
A Cold War over Austria
The Struggle for the State Treaty, Neutrality, and the End of East–West Occupation, 1945–1955
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
After World War II, Austria was occupied by Soviet, American, British, and French forces. This study provides the history of the treaty that was negotiated in order to end this occupation. In the Moscow Declaration of 1943, the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union had declared that Austria...
From Empire to Republic
Post-World War I Austria
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Austria transformed itself from an empire to a small Central European country. Formerly an important player in international affairs, the new republic was quickly sidelined by the European concert of powers. The enormous losses of territory and...
by Archibald R. Colquhoun
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
THERE is, in reality, no collective title for the agglomeration of territories called Austria-Hungary. The House of Habsburg is merely the connecting link between many distinct parts, not only by virtue of conquest or annexation, but also by inheritance and by the right of long possession. It has...
by Paula Sutter Fichtner
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Austrians today often seem to believe that they have two histories. One is their republican present; the other, the centuries that their forebears spent as part of the multi-ethnic Habsburg Empire. Contemporary Austria is a fixture among Europe's democracies. Yet, it did not achieve this state easily:...
Polemical Austria
The Rhetorics of National Identity from Empire to the Second Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Austria today offers the picture of a small, neutral, and economically successful country in the heart of Europe. Yet modern Austria is the product of a complex and violent history. After the First World War, Vienna changed overnight from being the capital of a large continental and multi-ethnic Empire...
The Ideological Cold War
The Politics of Neutrality in Austria and Finland
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This book opens new perspectives into the Cold War ideological confrontations. Using Austria and Finland as an example, it shows how the Cold War battles for the hearts and minds of the people also influenced policies in countries that wished to stay outside the conflict.
Following the model...
Slavs in Post-Nazi Austria
Carinthian Slovenes and the Politics of Assimilation, 1945-1960
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Robert Knight's book examines how the 60,000 strong Slovene community in the Austrian borderland province of Carinthia continued to suffer in the wake of Nazism's fall. It explores how and why Nazi values continued to be influential in a post-Nazi era in postwar Central Europe and provides valuable...
Becoming Austrians
Jews and Culture between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
The collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918 left all Austrians in a state of political, social, and economic turmoil, but Jews in particular found their lives shaken to the core. Although Jews' former comfort zone suddenly disappeared, the dissolution of the Dual Monarchy also created plenty of room for...
by Michael Hochedlinger
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The Habsburg Monarchy has received much historiographical attention since 1945. Yet the military aspects of Austria’s emergence as a European great power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have remained obscure. This book shows that force of arms and the instruments of the early modern...
A Mad Catastrophe
The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
A masterful account of the Hapsburg Empire's bumbling entrance into World War I, and its rapid collapse on the Eastern Front
The Austro-Hungarian army that attacked Russia and Serbia in August 1914 had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging...
Workers and Nationalism
Czech and German Social Democracy in Habsburg Austria, 1890-1918
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Internationalist socialism and ethnic nationalism are usually thought of as polar opposites. But for the millions of men and women who made Social Democracy into twentieth-century Europe's most potent political force, they were often mutually reinforcing. Workers and Nationalism explains this apparent...