From empire to republic post-World War I Austria
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- ISBN: 1608011356
- ISBN: 9781608011353
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1 online resource (443 pages) : illustrations. - Publisher: New Orleans, La. : UNO Press ; Innsbruck : Innsbruck University Press, ©2010.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface / Günter Bischof -- Introduction - Boundaries and transitions in modern Austrian history / John W. Boyer - Leopold Count Berchtold: the man who could have prevented the Great War / Samuel R. Williamson, Jr. - Topical essays - I. End of empire/early republic: political (domestic and foreign) legacies - Utopian perspectives and political restraint: the Austrian Revolution in the context of Central European conflicts / Wolfgang Maderthaner - Was there an Austrian stab-in-the-back myth? Interwar military interpretations of defeat / Patrick J. Houlihan - "A status which does not exist anymore": Austrian and Hungarian enemy aliens in the United States, 1917-21 / Nicole M. Phelps - Selectively perceived legacies of World War I: the little-known Halstead Mission in Austria, 1919 / Siegfried Beer - Dismantling empire: Ignaz Seipel and Austria's financial crisis, 1922-1925 / John Deak - II. Costs of war: Social/mental/cultural legacies - Demographic transitions accelerated: abortion, body politics, and the end of supra-regional labor immigration in post-war Austria / Andreas Weigl - Government care of war widows and disabled veterans after World War I / Verena Pawlowsky and Harald Wendelin - A partnership of the weak: war victims and the state in the early first Austrian Republic / Ke-chin Hsia - Memory-landscapes of the First World War: the Southwestern Front in present-day Italy, Austria and Slovenia / Gunda Barth-Scalmani - Pan-Germanism after empire: Austrian "Germandom" at home and abroad / Julie Thorpe - Sudeten Germans in Austria after the First World War / Johannes Koll - Consensus vs. control: the politics of culture in interwar Austria, a reassessment (with special emphasis on literature and the theatre) / Robert Pyrah - Jewish education in interwar Vienna: cooperation, compromise and conflict between the Austria state and the Viennese Jewish community / Sara O.M. Yanovsky - III. Habsburg successor states: economic legacies - Under pressure to adapt: corporate business and the new order in post-1918 Central Europe / Andreas Resch - Wealth, poverty and institutions in the Habsburg Empire's successor states (1918-1929) / Peter Berger - Coda: A twentieth century family - The lost and saved: a memoir of the persecution of Jews in Vienna and Budapest / Peter Berger - Book reviews - Annual review - Austria 2009 / Reinhold Gärtner. |
Language Note: | English. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Austria History 1918-1938 |