Austria Hungary category: 467 books
Escape Home
Rebuilding a Life After the Anschluss
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
"An engrossing saga, profusely illustrated and fully documented, the stuff that makes an intriguing feature film. I heartedly endorse it."
- Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Director, The Frank Lloyd Wright Archives
"One of the more uplifting accounts of European émigré life that I have...
Good Living Street
Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Vienna and its Secessionist movement at the turn of the last century is the focus of this extraordinary social portrait told through an eminent Viennese family, headed by Hermine and Moriz Gallia, who were among the great patrons of early-twentieth-century Viennese culture at its peak.
Good Living...
The Memory Factory
The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The Memory Factory introduces an English-speaking public to the significant women artists of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, each chosen for her aesthetic innovations and participation in public exhibitions. These women played important public roles as exhibiting artists, both individually...
by Anne Davison
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
This book traces the history of the Holy Roman Empire, which lasted for over a thousand years, from the reign of Charlemagne in AD 800 until AD 1806 when it was dissolved following defeat by Napoleon. It is an Empire that had no fixed boundaries and until the 16th century, when the Habsburgs settled...
Rudolf. Crown Prince and Rebel
Translation of the New and Revised Edition, «Kronprinz Rudolf. Ein Leben» (Amalthea, 2005)
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Brigitte Hamann portrays Rudolf von Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria, as a liberal intellectual who stood in opposition to his father Emperor Franz Josef and the imperial establishment. Against the prevailing currents of his time, Rudolf wanted to modernize the Habsburg Empire by abolishing the privileges...
by M.S. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Set in motion by the disputed succession of Maria Theresa and her husband to the lands and dignities of Emperor Charles VI, this series of major conflicts (1740-48) involved far more than just the fate of the Habsurgs: soon, Austria, Prussia, France, Britain, Spain, Bavaria, Saxony and the Netherlands...
Vienna Is Different
Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin-de-Siècle to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Assessing the impact of fin-de-siècle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in the...
Pilsudski:
A Biography by His Wife
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
First published in 1941, this is a biography written by the wife of Józef Piłsudski (1867-1935), the Polish statesman who was Chief of State from 1918-1922, “First Marshal of Poland” from 1920, de facto leader of the Second Polish Republic from 1926-1935, and Minister of Military Affairs. He...
Sexual Knowledge
Feeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Vienna’s unique intellectual, political, and religious traditions had a powerful impact on the transformation of sexual knowledge in the early twentieth century. Whereas turn-of-the-century sexology, as practiced in Vienna as a medical science, sought to classify and heal individuals, during the...
by Joseph Kula and Maria Kula
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Maria’s Story is a true account of a Polish teen’s trials and tribulations as a slave girl of the Nazis in the Second World War. Driven out of Krakow during the invasion by the German Army, Maria and her sister Stefania flee for the safety of their country village only to be rounded up and sent to...
by Erich Hackl
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Award-winning Austrian author
Three little-known and surprising stories related to the Holocaust using photography as a thread for storytelling
Translator recently bestowed a lifetime achievement award from the Austrian government for translations of Austrian literature
Austrian...
by Geza Alfoldy
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The Roman province of Noricum occupied most of Austria as well as parts of Italy, Germany and the Balkans. Noricum, first published in 1974, presents a comprehensive history of Noricum, from 400 BC to the end of Roman rule in AD 600.
Professor Alföldy’s account is predicated on the methodical...
by Thomas Henry Dyer
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
THE period which elapsed between the close of the Crimean war and the establishment of the German Empire at the beginning of 1871, may be said to contain events of more importance as regards the European system than even its reconstruction by the Congress of Vienna. These events are, besides the new...
by William Coxe
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The House of Austria owes its origin and power to Rudolf of Habsburg, son of Albert IV Count of Habsburg. The Austrian genealogists, who have taken indefatigable but ineffectual pains to trace his illustrious descent from the Romans, carry it with great probability to Ethico, duke of Alsace, in the...