Austria Hungary category: 467 books
Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea
Selected Essays and Addresses, 1906-1927
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
The Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was one of the great modernists in the German language, but his importance as a major intellectual of the early twentieth century has not received adequate attention in the English-speaking world. One distinguished literary scholar of his generation...
The Great Tradition and Its Legacy
The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often controversial originally but now considered as classics, are still performed regularly in Vienna, Prague,...
by Sidney Whitman
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.
Belle Necropolis
Ghosts of Imperial Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Since coming to public notice through major museum catalogues and the work of Carl Schorske around 1980, fin de siècle Vienna has been cast as the final bloom of a dying culture. Yet this assessment is itself a historical construct, deriving from the politics of the twentieth century. This volume...
Coca-Colonization and the Cold War
The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria After the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Reinhold Wagnleitner argues that cultural propaganda played an enormous part in integrating Austrians and other Europeans into the American sphere during the Cold War. In Coca-Colonization and the Cold War, he shows that 'Americanization' was the result not only of market forces and consumerism but...
by Bruno Mugnai
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Negli anni in cui si svolse l'operato del grande capitano italiano si formò la tradizione dell'esercito asburgico e in particolare della cavalleria, nella quale il reggimento di dragoni appartenuto al principe Eugenio mantenne il nome del suo colonnello fino al 1918, onore riservato a nessun altro...
Metternich and Austria
An Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2007
This is the first serious appraisal of Metternich's role in the Austrian Empire and beyond. Covering both domestic and international affairs, Sked presents a fresh and convincing description of Metternich's era and argues that despite his battered historical reputation, Metternich was the leading diplomat in Europe over four decades.
by Zsuzsanna Ozsvath
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Opening with the ominous scene of one young school girl whispering an urgent account of Nazi horror to another over birthday cake, Ozsváth’s extraordinary and chilling memoir tells the story of her childhood in Hungary, living under the threat of the Holocaust. The setting is the summer of 1944...
by Jaap Scholten
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In the darkness of the early morning of March 3, 1949, practically all of the Transylvanian aristocracy were arrested in their beds and loaded onto trucks. That same day, the Romanian Workers' Party was pleased to announce the successful deportation and dispossession of all large landowners....
A Fleet in Being
Austro-Hungarian Warships of WW1
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
The Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine -- The Austro-Hungarian Navy -- was in at the beginning of World War I when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie lay in state aboard its flagship, and at the end when it dissolved along with the empire that commanded it. During the war, this small...
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...
Der Lange Türkenkrieg (1593-1606) Vol. I
The long Turkish war - Habsburgs arrest the Ottoman advance
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
After more than half-a-century of wars in Hungary, the conflict between the Habsburgs and the Sublime Porte explodes in 1593, after a series of border incidents. The confrontation was soon regarded as crucial by both sides, also involving the neighbouring states in a complex and ruthless game of diplomacy...
The Politics of Cultural Retreat
Imperial Bureaucracy in Austrian Galicia, 1772-1867
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
An illuminating history of state-building, nationalism, and bureaucracy, this book tells the story of how an international cohort of Austrian officials from Bohemia, Hungary, the Hapsburg Netherlands, Italy, and several German states administered Galicia from its annexation from Poland-Lithuania in 1772...
The White Terror
Antisemitic and Political Violence in Hungary, 1919-1921
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
The White Terror was a movement of right-wing militias that for two years actively tracked down, tortured, and murdered members of the Jewish community, as well as former supporters of the short-lived Council Republic in the years following World War I. It can be argued that this example of a programme...