Austria Hungary category: 467 books
Hitler's Austria
Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Although Austrians comprised only 8 percent of the population of Hitler's Reich, they made up 14 percent of SS members and 40 percent of those involved in the Nazis' killing operations. This was no coincidence. Popular anti-Semitism was so powerful in Austria that once deportations of Jews began in...
Tu felix Austria
Neue Geschichten aus der Geschichte
Language: German
Release Date: November 11, 2014
"Tu felix Austria nube!" Mit diesem Leitspruch und einer überaus geschickten Heiratspolitik ist es den Habsburgern über Jahrhunderte hinweg gelungen, ihre Macht zu stärken und ihr Reich zu erweitern. Dass es dabei nicht immer friedlich zuging und der Kampf um Krone und Szepter erbittert...
by John S.C. Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
John S.C. Abbott was an American historian best known for his books on some of the most important people and events in history. John's brother Jacob was also a well-known author of popular historical biographies.
This is Abbott's detailed history of the Empire of Austria. A table of contents is included.
by Charles Fenyvesi
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
When The World Was Whole: Three Centuries of Memories by Charles Fenyvesi (76,000 words, 40 illustrations)
In this family memoir, Charles Fenyvesi brings back to life his ancestors who loved and improved the poor soil they tilled in northeastern Hungary, kept the countless rules of their Jewish...
The Hungarians
A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
The Hungarians is the most comprehensive, clear-sighted, and absorbing history ever of a legendarily proud and passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe once knew them as "child-devouring cannibals" and "bloodthirsty Huns." But it wasn't long before the Hungarians became steadfast...
Politics in Color and Concrete
Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous—the worst of postwar modernist architecture and design. Politics in Color and Concrete revisits this history by exploring domestic space in Hungary from the 1950s through the 1990s and...
Orbán
Hungary's Strongman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
A no-holds-barred biography of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has become a pivotal figure in European politics since 2010, this is the first English- language study of the erstwhile anti-communist rebel turned populist autocrat. Through a masterly and cynical manipulation of ethnic nationalism,...
by Zoltán Frankl
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Originally written and publilshed in 1995, this is the memoir of Zoltán Frankl, who was born in Hungary in 1907, to a Jewish family.
His father was a respected doctor and one of the leaders of the local community. Zoltán Frankl had an extraordinary life, beginning as a young medical student...
Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud
The Politics of Materiality in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
In this original and provocative study, Zsuzsa Gille examines three scandals that have shaken Hungary since it joined the European Union: the 2004 ban on paprika due to contamination, the 2008 boycott of Hungarian foie gras by Austrian animal rights activists, and the "red mud" spill of 2010, Hungary’s...
The Names Heard Long Ago
How the Golden Age of Hungarian Soccer Shaped the Modern Game
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
The story of the vibrant and revolutionary soccer culture in Hungary that, on the eve of World War II, redefined the modern game and launched a new era.
In the early 1950s, the Hungarian side was unbeatable, winning the Olympic gold and thrashing England in the Match of the Century. Their legendary...
The Monumental Nation
Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
The studies presented in the collected volume Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies -- edited by Steven Totosy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvari -- are intended as an addition to scholarship in (comparative) cultural studies. More specifically, the articles represent scholarship about Central and...
The Discontented
Betrayal, Love and War in Habsburg Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
The Discontented tells the heroic story of the Hungarian uprisings against the Habsburgs in 17th and 18th centuries.
Led by the charismatic trio of Imre Thököly, Helena Zrinyi and Ferenc Rákóczi II, there were moments when the rebels nearly succeeded in securing the independence of Hungary...
by Peter Stephaich
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
History comes alive in these pages as Peter Stephaich traces his origins from 1608 when King Rudolph II of Hungary conferred noble status on his family. He describes in fascinating detail his upbringing in a world which has long since ceased to exist. As a member of the elite Hussar Cavalry, Stephaich...