Austria Hungary category: 467 books
by Arminius Vambery
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
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The Story of Hungary is a thorough history of the nation.
by Rupert Colley
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Sixty years ago, the people of Hungary stood up to Soviet tyranny. In Budapest and throughout the nation, civilians demanded freedom from Soviet oppression and their country's communist government. It was one of the defining moments of the Cold War.
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 constituted...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In May 1938, Hungary passed anti-Semitic laws causing hundreds of Jewish artists to lose their jobs. In response, Budapest's Jewish community leaders organized an Artistic Enterprise under the aegis of OMIKE Országos Magyar Izraelita Közművelődési Egyesület (Hungarian Jewish Education Association)...
Ballpoint
A Tale of Genius and Grit, Perilous Times, and the Invention that Changed the Way We Write
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
László Bíró's last name is, in much of the world, a synonym for his revolutionary writing tool. But few people know that Bíró began his career in interwar Budapest as a journalist frustrated with spotty ink; that he escaped fascism by fleeing to Paris and, finally, to Buenos Aires; that a fellow...
by Árpád von Klimó
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Lying on the political fault line between East and West for the past seventy-five years, the significance of Hungary in geopolitical terms has far outweighed the modest size of its population. This book charts the main events of these tumultuous decades including the 1956 Uprising, the end of Hungarian...
Magyars and Political Discourses in the New Millennium
Changing Meanings in Hungary at the Start of the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
In this book, Melinda Kovács analyzes various areas of Hungarian political discourse: newspapers, party websites, informational books on the EU, and government-produced brochures sent to all households in Hungary. The inquiry is supported by an understanding of politics as achieving and negotiating...
Unified Military Industries of the Soviet Bloc
Hungary and the Division of Labor in Military Production
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
This book draws a subtle picture of Warsaw Pact economic and military cooperation by presenting a complete branch—the military industry—from the perspective of a smaller member-state, Hungary. It demonstrates that the military industry’s cooperation played a crucial role in the development of...
by Arminius Vambery
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
In the Northwest of Hungary, on the banks of the Danube, begins the mountainous region known under the name of the Carpathian range, which for beauty is not surpassed by the Alps, and in extent fairly rivals them. This mountain range, encircling like a gigantic evergreen wreath one half of the country,...
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...
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...
Metternich's Diplomacy at its Zenith, 1820-1823
Austria and the Congresses of Troppau, Laibach, and Verona
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
What Metiernich wanted at the peak of his career, why he wanted it, and the methods by which he achieved his goals are questions brilliantly answered in this survey and analysis of the Austrian chancellor's diplomacy during the period when he was the pre-eminent figure in European politics. Metternich's...
by John Breuilly
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
It is often argued that the unification of Germany in 1871 was the inevitable result of the convergence of Prussian power and German nationalism. John Breuilly here shows that the true story was much more complex. For most of the nineteenth century Austria was the dominant power in the region. Prussian-led...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Wolfgang Schüssel was a dominating actor in the Austrian political arena over a period of twenty years. He served as minister of economics (1989-1995), and vice chancellor and foreign minister (1995-2000) in ÖVP/SPÖ grand coalition governments. As chairman of the ÖVP (1995-2007), he brought his...
Apostles of the Alps
Mountaineering and Nation Building in Germany and Austria, 1860-1939
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' threefold role in transforming the two countries, as people sought...