Austria category: 467 books
Violent Sensations
Sex, Crime, and Utopia in Vienna and Berlin, 1860-1914
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Vienna and Berlin were centers of scientific knowledge, accompanied by a sense of triumphalism and confidence in progress. Yet they were also sites of fascination with urban decay, often focused on sexual and criminal deviants and the tales of violence surrounding...
The Essential Guide to Being Hungarian
50 Facts & Facets of Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
An instant backlist evergreen, this title is a great gift or a vehicle of self discovery for anyone with a Hungarian background, marrying into a Hungarian family, planning a trip to Hungary or just plain curious.
This humorous, knowing volume has proven its sales appeal with 4,000+ copies sold...
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...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Out of a film culture originally starved of funds have emerged rich and eclectic works by film-makers that are now achieving the international recognition that they deserve: Barbara Albert, Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl, and Stefan Ruzowitzky, to give four examples. This comprehensive critical anthology,...
by Robert S. Wistrich
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
“Robert Wistrich’s exemplary scholarly analysis of the Viennese Jewish community in the 19th century is the first well-written, reliable study of its kind... gives elegant portraits of the crucial Jewish figures of the new Viennese politics at the turn of the century... focus[es] on the internal...
Black Vienna
The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918–1938
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Interwar Vienna was considered a bastion of radical socialist thought, and its reputation as "Red Vienna" has loomed large in both the popular imagination and the historiography of Central Europe. However, as Janek Wasserman shows in this book, a "Black Vienna" existed as well; its members voiced...
Voyage au pays des Tziganes
La Hongrie inconnue
Language: French
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Extrait : "Les lecteurs qui ont bien voulu m'accompagner, l'an dernier, dans mon excursion à Vienne, se rappellent peut-être la route que nous primes pour nous rendre de Paris dans la capitale de l'Autriche. Après avoir traversé le Mont-Genis, nous touchâmes barre à Venise et à Trieste, puis nous...
The Pity of War
Explaining World War I
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War I
The Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German...
The Habsburg Empire
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
This panoramic reappraisal shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered for so long to so many Central Europeans across divides of language, religion, and region. Pieter Judson shows that creative government—and intractable problems the far-flung empire could not solve—left an enduring imprint on successor states. Its lessons are no less important today.
by John W. Mason
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
This book charts the history of the last fifty years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1867 to 1918. it reveals that the Habsburg Monarchy, though not in a healthy state before 1914, was not in fact doomed to collapse. The author examines foreign and domestic policies and reveals the weaknesses...
Stefan Zweig and World Literature
Twenty-First-Century Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
The twenty-first century has seen a renewed surge of cultural and critical interest in the works of the Austrian-Jewish author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), who was among the most-read and -acclaimed authors worldwide in the 1920s and 1930s but after 1945 fell into critical disfavor and relative obscurity....
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...
For God and Kaiser
The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Among the finest examples of deeply researched and colorfully written military history, Richard Bassett’s For God and Kaiser is a major account of the Habsburg army told for the first time in English. Bassett shows how the Imperial Austrian Army, time and again, was a decisive factor in the story of...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Jobbik, an ultra-nationalist party in Hungary, was founded in 2003. By 2010, this party had secured national parliamentary representation and sent three representatives to the European parliament....