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1914 Austria Hungary The Origins (Contemporary Austrian Studies, Vol 23)
For the past 100 years some of the greatest historians and political scientists of the twentieth century have picked apart, analyzed and reinterpreted this sequence of events taking place within a single month in July/early August 1914. The four years of fighting during World War I destroyed the international system put into place at the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 and led to the dissolution of some of the great old empires of Europe (Austrian-Hungarian, Ottomon, Russian). The 100th anniversary of the assassination of the Austrian successor to the throne Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo unleashed the series of events that unleashed World War I. The assassination i...
Einfach! Architektur aus Österreich
Ohne Zweifel hat die zeitgenössische österreichische Architektur in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten einen hohen internationalen Stellenwert erlangt. Aber gibt es sie überhaupt, die österreichische Architektur? Und wenn ja, was ist für sie charakteristisch? Für die Produktion von Architektur waren der Standort und seine Identität sicherlich stets ein wesentliches Initial für ihre Entstehung. Die Architekturkritiker Walter Chramosta, Manuela Hötzl, Bart Lootsma, Antje Mayer, Jan Tabor und Ute Woltron stellen eine sehr persönliche Auswahl von neueren Projekten in Österreich vor, anhand derer sie regional Typisches festzumachen versuchen ; keine medial gehypten Stararchitekturen, sondern kleine, feine Bauten. Dieses Buch ist ein Versuch, die ausgetretenen Pfade der "Hochglanz-Architekturkritik" für einen Augenblick zu verlassen. Ein bewusst unvollständiges, humorvolles Buch, mit zuweilen sympathisch detailversessenen Blicken auf Architektur in Österreich.
Grazer Volksblatt
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Webster's New Geographical Dictionary
Provides basic information on continents, countries, regions, and cities within alphabetical entries and accompanying maps.
Grazer Zeitung
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Remembering and Forgetting Nazism
The Myth of Austrian victimization at the hands of both Nazi Germany and the Allies became the unifying theme of Austrian official memory and a key component of national identity as a new Austria emerged from the ruins. In the 1980s, Austria's myth of victimization came under intense scrutiny in the wake of the Waldheim scandal that marked the beginning of its erosion. The fiftieth anniversary of the Anschluß in 1988 accelerated this process and resulted in a collective shift away from the victim myth. Important themes examined include the rebirth of Austria, the Anschluß, the war and the Holocaust, the Austrian resistance, and the Allied occupation. The fragmentation of Austrian official memory since the late 1980s coincided with the dismantling of the Conservative and Social Democratic coalition, which had defined Austrian politics in the postwar period. Through the eyes of the Austrian school system, this book examines how postwar Austria came to terms with the Second World War.
Imperfect Justice
In the second half of the 1990s, Stuart Eizenstat was perhaps the most controversial U.S. foreign policy official in Europe. His mission had nothing to do with Russia, the Middle East, Yugoslavia, or any of the other hotspots of the day. Rather, Eizenstat's mission was to provide justice—albeit belated and imperfect justice—for the victims of World War II. Imperfect Justice is Eizenstat's account of how the Holocaust became a political and diplomatic battleground fifty years after the war's end, as the issues of dormant bank accounts, slave labor, confiscated property, looted art, and unpaid insurance policies convulsed Europe and America. He recounts the often heated negotiations with the Swiss, the Germans, the French, the Austrians, and various Jewish organizations, showing how these moral issues, shunted aside for so long, exposed wounds that had never healed and conflicts that had never been properly resolved. Though we will all continue to reckon with the crimes of World War II for a long time to come, Eizenstat's account shows that it is still possible to take positive steps in the service of justice.
