Austria Hungary category: 467 books
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...
Death by Fame
A Life of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
"A well-written, thoroughly researched story of a popular and beautiful empress, who, while self-indulgent, sought a life of privacy and peace, and showed sympathy and charity toward the poor." - Kirkus Reviews
In 1898 Luigi Lucheni fatally stabbed Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, on...
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...
The Jews of Hungary
History, Culture, Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The Jews of Hungary is the first comprehensive history in any language of the unique Jewish community that has lived in the Carpathian Basin for eighteen centuries, from Roman times to the present. Noted historian and anthropologist Raphael Patai, himself a native of Hungary, tells in this pioneering...
by Chris Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
This book is mostly about one thing: Places in Hungary. Places in the sense of what they can tell us about Hungarian history, both natural and cultural. Places in the sense of how they can help us relocate the past not just in Hungary, but most importantly within ourselves.
This book is probably best...
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...
The Holocaust in Hungary
Evolution of a Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
The Holocaust in Hungary provides a comprehensive documentary account of one of the most brutal and effective killing campaigns in history. After Nazi Germany took control of Hungary late in World War II, Jews were rounded up with unprecedented speed and sent directly to Auschwitz. They would form...
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 Nazis' Last Victims
The Holocaust in Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
The Nazis' Last Victims articulates and historically scrutinizes both the uniqueness and the universality of the Holocaust in Hungary, a topic often minimized in general works on the Holocaust. The result of the 1994 conference at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the fiftieth anniversary...
The Politics of Genocide
The Holocaust in Hungary, Condensed Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, Condensed Edition is an abbreviated version of the classic work first published in 1981 and revised and expanded in 1994. It includes a new historical overview, and retains and sharpens its focus on the persecution of the Jews. Through a meticulous...
The Life of Josef Šálek
A Biographical History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
The life story of Josef Šálek, as remembered by his grandson. Born in Moravia, then part of Austria-Hungary, in 1892, Šálek's lifetime spanned both World Wars and the transformation of what is now the Czech Republic. What may have been simple small-town life became extraordinary when set against...