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From empire to republic : post-World War I Austria /
After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Austria transformed itself from an empire to a small Central European country. Formerly an important player in international affairs, the new republic was quickly sidelined by the European concert of powers. The enormous losses of territory and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Orleans, La. : Innsbruck :
UNO Press ; Innsbruck University Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Contemporary Austrian studies ;
v. 19. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface / G|nter 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 G̃rtner.