Austria category: 467 books
Sissi’s World
The Empress Elisabeth in Memory and Myth
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Sissi's World offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It investigates the myths, legends, and representations across literature, art, film, and other media of one of the most popular, revered, and misunderstood female figures in European cultural...
Apple of Discord
The "Hungarian Factor" in Austro-Serbian Relations, 1867-1881
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
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 Hungarian...
Sacrifice and Rebirth
The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
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 ex-Habsburg...
Dreams of a Great Small Nation
The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The pages of history recall scarcely any parallel episode at once so romantic in character and so extensive in scale.” -Winston S. Churchill
In 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by the ruinous cost in blood and treasure...
by Philip Haythornthwaite
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
The specialist troops of the Austrian forces helped to secure Austria's reputation as the most formidable of Napoleon's continental enemies. Due largely to the efforts of Prince Liechtenstein, by the late 18th century the Austrian artillery had been the finest in Europe, and was held up as an example...
The Holy Roman Empire
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
A new interpretation of the Holy Roman Empire that reveals why it was not a failed state as many historians believe
The Holy Roman Empire emerged in the Middle Ages as a loosely integrated union of German states and city-states under the supreme rule of an emperor. Around 1500, it took on a...
Climate in Motion
Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth’s climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary. Climate in Motion shows that this multiscalar, multicausal framework emerged well before computers and satellites....
by Ryan K. Noppen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
At the outbreak of World War I Austria-Hungary had four modern light cruisers and twenty modern destroyers at their disposal, constructed in the early 20th century to defend their growing overseas interests. It was these fast light vessels, not the fleet's prized battleships, which saw most action...
Kobilek
Giornale di battaglia
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 28, 2015
‘Kobilek - Giornale di battaglia’, è il diario della partecipazione del Tenente Ardengo Soffici e del suo 128° Reggimento Fanteria Firenze all’XI Offensiva dell’Isonzo, passata alla storia come Battaglia della Bainsizza, offensiva a cui parteciparono un milione di soldati del Regio Esercito...
by R. John Rath
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
When Austrian soldiers first set foot in Lombardy-Venetia in October, 1813, they were greeted everywhere as liberators and friends. In the spring of 1815, when Joachim Murat's efforts to establish a united Italy ended in miserable failure and when the Habsburgs announced the main features of the regime...
WechselWirkungen
Austria-Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the Western Balkans, 18781918
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
What can post/colonial studies and their approaches contribute to our understanding of the Austro-Hungarian (k.u.k.) occupation and administration of Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1878 to 1914?
This anthology presents some possible answers to this research question which goes back to a workshop held at...
Memory Book
One Woman's Self-Discovery in the Mist of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Found in an antique store while the author was on a short vacation to Budapest, the small leather book—filled with watercolors, drawings, and messages—turned out to be a memory book. At the turn of the twentieth century, many Eastern European girls kept memory books as keepsake albums, in which...
by Nathan Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Although some statesmen and historians have pinned Austria’s—and the world’s—interwar economic implosion on financial colonialism, in this corrective history Nathan Marcus deemphasizes the negative role of external players and points to the greater impact of domestic malfeasance and predatory speculation on Austrian political and financial decline.
Seufzer aus Österreich und seinen Provinzen
Politische Kritik am Metternich-Regime
Language: German
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Dieses eBook: "Seufzer aus Österreich und seinen Provinzen" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Charles Sealsfield, eigentlich Carl Anton Postl, (1793-1864) war ein österreichischer und US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller....