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Vanquished and Victorious
Recent research has revised earlier views about the role of veterans of World War One in paramilitary formations, radical nationalism and political extremism in inter-war Europe, yet there remain considerable gaps in our understanding of the role they played in the ‘successor states’ of the Habsburg Empire. Vanquished and Victorious provides an innovative comparative investigation of veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, two states whose wider political development was of crucial importance to the question of stability in Central Europe after 1918. While differing in terms of how successfully veterans reintegrated into post-war society, this volume shows that both countries incorporated elements of ‘cultures of victory and defeat’.
Habsburgs Last War
A divergent survey of scholarship on World War I cinema produced in succession countries of the Habsburg Empire. This untapped body of film records a contentious phase in world history, from the perspective of an often misunderstood, yet pivotal, region. The volume gathers scholarly essays exploring the intersections between the political, historical, and aesthetic, as expressed in the region's various "moving pictures," with sustained attention to the relationship between artistic representation and collective memory.
World War One Veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia
The First World War massively changed the scale and nature of the "military veteran question" in Europe. The enormous impact of mass deaths and destruction, the demise of old empires, and the rise of new nation states resulting from total war made the fate of ex-soldiers into a key issue that shaped all societies in interwar Europe. The unprecedented number of combatants, together with the severity and frequency of injuries incurred in industrialized warfare, meant that the relationship between ex-soldiers and the state became a crucial issue for all governments, raising major questions about welfare provisions, social policy, party politics and national memory cultures. While there has been...
The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present
From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India’s struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history.
Zeitgeschichte ausstellen in Österreich
Die Errichtung eines historischen Museums für die Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts ist seit über zehn Jahren Gegenstand kontroverser Diskussionen in Österreich. Tatsächlich wird bereits in ganz unterschiedlichen Einrichtungen und Kontexten österreichische Zeitgeschichte präsentiert: in regionalen oder Landesmuseen und in thematisch orientierten Häusern, in großen Sonderausstellungen ebenso wie in Gedenkstätten. Der Band bietet eine Bestandsaufnahme und Recherche zur Musealisierung österreichischer Zeitgeschichte, ihres Status quo und ihrer Entwicklung, ihrer Themen und Darstellungsformen, ihrer Probleme und Blindstellen, ihrer Herausforderungen und Konfliktfelder. Mit der Analyse bisheriger und bestehender Repräsentationen werden grundsätzlich die Möglichkeiten einer musealen Darstellung österreichischer Zeitgeschichte diskutiert. Beiträge von: Brigitte Bailer, Lucile Dreidemy, Ulrike Felber, Richard Hufschmied, Jennifer Jordan, Gerald Lamprecht, Peter Larndorfer, Hannes Leidinger, Karin Liebhart, Verena Moritz, Bertrand Perz, Alexander Pollak, Marie Magdalena Rest, Dirk Rupnow, Monika Sommer, Heidemarie Uhl, Regina Wonisch.
November 1918
The story of an epochal event in German history, this is also the story of the most important revolution that you might never have heard of.
Virginio Gayda, the Yugoslav Question and the Italian Irredenta
This is a study of the early writings of Virginio Gayda (1885-1944), a talented but amoral Italian journalist whose career spanned two world wars. A keen observer, prolific writer and propagandist during his stint as the newspaper La Stampa’s special correspondent in Habsburg Vienna, Gayda lent his considerable skills to promote an aggressive foreign policy. No one did more than he to poison relations between the Italian and Yugoslav peoples. His is the story of a respected journalist who chose an ultranationalist path to fascism and international fame. Not uninfluenced by rank careerism and material reward he forsook his roots to embrace the antisemitic “race” laws of 1938 and Italy’s disastrous partnership with Nazi Germany.
Kapitalismus
Einführende Darstellungen behandeln Entstehung und Entwicklung von Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmodellen, die sich unter der Bezeichnung "Kapitalismus" zusammenfassen lassen. Nicht um Kritik und Polemik an einem diffusen Feindbild geht es dabei. Vielmehr wird nach Ansätzen "kapitalistischen" Wirtschaftens bis zur eigentlichen "Geburt" des Begriffs im 19. Jahrhundert sowie nach "Karriere" und Bedeutungen eines Phänomens im Zeichen der "Industriellen Revolutionen" gesucht. Die Überblicksarbeit versteht sich als Orientierungshilfe und will zeigen, was "Kapitalismus" einerseits nicht ist und wo andererseits die Verwendung des Ausdrucks in verschiedenen Lesarten sinnvoll erscheint.
Migrants and Refugees from the 1960s until Today
One of the oldest phenomena in the history of mankind is migration, whether peaceful or violent, voluntary or forced, barely noticeable outfl ow or mass movements. In the 19th century, regional migration to frontier territories, as for example in the Russian Empire or the United States of America, was a natural object of research. In the 1960s there was renewed interest in migration history in Western Europe due to the increase of immigration. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the so-called Eastern Bloc, the history of borders came again into focus, leading to a new generation in migration history. This development was reinforced by the "summer of migration" of 2015. The history of migration to Austria, especially during the Second Republic, has long been a topic overlooked by historians, but received increased attention since the 1980s. The present volume presents research currently being done on the history of migration to or through Austria.
Der Untergang der Habsburgermonarchie
1918: DAS ENDE EINER ÜBER 600 JAHRE ANDAUERNDEN DYNASTIE November 1918: Die Habsburgermonarchie liegt in Trümmern. Die Armee löst sich auf, und Kaiser Karl verlässt Schloss Schönbrunn durch die Hintertür. War dieses Ende wirklich unausweichlich, gar verspätet? Denn mit dem Tod von Kaiser Franz Joseph war der Monarchie 1916 nicht nur die Symbolfigur abhanden gekommen. Oder war es genau umgekehrt, der Untergang lediglich eine Verkettung unglücklicher Umstände? Der Krieg hatte die Lage Österreich-Ungarns zwar keineswegs vereinfacht. Aber die Anzeichen eines völligen Zusammenbruchs hielten sich trotz sozialer Spannungen und wirtschaftlicher Krisen in Grenzen. EIN NEUER BLICK AUF DIE G...
