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Forging a multinational state
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ISBN: 9780804795579 9780804795937 0804795932 0804795576 Year: 2015 Publisher: Stanford, California

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The Habsburg Monarchy ruled over approximately one-third of Europe for almost 150 years. Previous books on the Habsburg Empire emphasize its slow decline in the face of the growth of neighboring nation-states. John Deak, instead, argues that the state was not in eternal decline, but actively sought not only to adapt, but also to modernize and build. Deak has spent years mastering the structure and practices of the Austrian public administration and has immersed himself in the minutiae of its codes, reforms, political maneuverings, and culture. He demonstrates how an early modern empire made up of disparate lands connected solely by the feudal ties of a ruling family was transformed into a relatively unitary, modern, semi-centralized bureaucratic continental empire. This process was only derailed by the state of emergency that accompanied the First World War. Consequently, Deak provides the reader with a new appreciation for the evolving architecture of one of Europe's Great Powers in the long nineteenth century.


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Die Tagebücher des Grafen Egbert Belcredi 1850-1894
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Böhlau

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The edition includes the diaries of Count Egbert Belcredi from 1850 until his death in 1894. Belcredi – who was the brother of Austrian Prime Minister Richard Belcredi (1865-67) – was an outspoken Conservative, with links both to the Bohemian States Rights Party and the early Christian Social movement in Vienna. Die Edition umfasst die Tagebücher des Grafen Egbert Belcredi von 1850 bis zu seinem Tode 1894. Belcredi, Bruder des österreichischen Ministerpräsidenten Richard Belcredi (1865-67), war ein kämpferischer Konservativer, der zwischen böhmischem Staatsrecht und den früheren christlichsozialen Strömungen in Wien pendelte.


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Die Tagebücher des Grafen Egbert Belcredi 1850-1894
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Böhlau

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The edition includes the diaries of Count Egbert Belcredi from 1850 until his death in 1894. Belcredi – who was the brother of Austrian Prime Minister Richard Belcredi (1865-67) – was an outspoken Conservative, with links both to the Bohemian States Rights Party and the early Christian Social movement in Vienna. Die Edition umfasst die Tagebücher des Grafen Egbert Belcredi von 1850 bis zu seinem Tode 1894. Belcredi, Bruder des österreichischen Ministerpräsidenten Richard Belcredi (1865-67), war ein kämpferischer Konservativer, der zwischen böhmischem Staatsrecht und den früheren christlichsozialen Strömungen in Wien pendelte.


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Fictions from an orphan state : literary reflections of Austria between Habsburg and Hitler
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ISBN: 1283620219 9786613932662 1571138315 1571135316 Year: 2012 Publisher: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House,

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The literary flair of fin-de-siècle Vienna lived on after 1918 in the First Austrian Republic even as writers grappled with the consequences of a lost war and the vanished Habsburg Empire. Reacting to historical and political issues often distinct from those in Weimar Germany, Austrian literary culture, though frequently associated with Jewish writers deeply attached to the concept of an independent Austria, reflected the republic's ever-deepening antisemitism and the growing clamor for political union with Germany. Spanning the two momentous decades between the fall of the empire in 1918 and the Nazi 'Anschluss' in 1938, this book explores work by canonical writers such as Schnitzler, Kraus, Roth, and Werfel and by now-forgotten figures such as the pacifist Andreas Latzko, the arch-Nazi Bruno Brehm, and the fervently Jewish Soma Morgenstern. Also taken into account are Ernst Weiss's 'Hitler' novel 'Der Augenzeuge' and 1930s works about First Republic Austria by the German Communist writers Anna Seghers and Friedrich Wolf. Andrew Barker's book paints a varied and vivid picture of one of the most challenging and underresearched periods in twentieth-century cultural history. Andrew Barker is Emeritus Professor of Austrian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.


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Die Tagebücher des Grafen Egbert Belcredi 1850-1894
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Böhlau

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The edition includes the diaries of Count Egbert Belcredi from 1850 until his death in 1894. Belcredi – who was the brother of Austrian Prime Minister Richard Belcredi (1865-67) – was an outspoken Conservative, with links both to the Bohemian States Rights Party and the early Christian Social movement in Vienna. Die Edition umfasst die Tagebücher des Grafen Egbert Belcredi von 1850 bis zu seinem Tode 1894. Belcredi, Bruder des österreichischen Ministerpräsidenten Richard Belcredi (1865-67), war ein kämpferischer Konservativer, der zwischen böhmischem Staatsrecht und den früheren christlichsozialen Strömungen in Wien pendelte.


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The occult roots of nazism : secret Aryan cults and their influence on nazi ideology - the Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935
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ISBN: 1850434956 Year: 1992 Publisher: London : Tauris,

Imperial rule
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ISBN: 9786155211140 9786155211140 9786155211140 6155211140 9786611376666 1281376663 1417575875 9781417575879 9781281376664 963924192X 9789639241923 9639241989 9789639241985 6611376666 Year: 2004 Publisher: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press,

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Renowned academics compare major features of imperial rule in the 19th century, reflecting a significant shift away from nationalism and toward empires in the studies of state building. The book responds to the current interest in multi-unit formations, such as the European Union and the expanded outreach of the United States. National historical narratives have systematically marginalized imperial dimensions, yet empires play an important role. This book examines the methods discerned in the creation of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Ottoman Empire, the Hohenzollern rule and Imperial Russia. It inspects the respective imperial elites in these empires, and it details the role of nations, religions and ideologies in the legitimacy of empire building, bringing the Spanish Empire into the analysis. The final part of the book focuses on modern empires, such as the German "Reich." The essays suggest that empires were more adaptive and resilient to change than is commonly thought.

National Romanticism : Formation of National Movements
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ISBN: 9786155211249 6155211248 2821814917 1281376841 9786611376840 1429425474 9789637326608 963732660X Year: 2007 Publisher: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press,

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67 texts, including hymns, manifestos, articles or extracts from lengthy studies exemplify the relation between Romanticism and the national movements in the cultural space ranging from Poland to the Ottoman Empire. Each text is accompanied by a presentation of the author, and by an analysis of the context in which the respective work was born.The end of the 18th century and first decades of the 19th were in many respects a watershed period in European history. The ideas of the Enlightenment and the dramatic convulsions of the French Revolution had shattered the old bonds and cast doubt upon the established moral and social norms of the old corporate society. In culture a new trend, Romanticism, was successfully asserting itself against Classicism and provided a new key for a growing number of activists to 're-imagine' their national community, reaching beyond the traditional frameworks of identification (such as the 'political nation', regional patriotism, or Christian universalism). The collection focuses on the interplay of Romantic cultural discourses and the shaping of national ideology throughout the 19th century, tracing the patterns of cultural transfer with Western Europe as well as the mimetic competition of national ideologies within the region.


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Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer : A Transylvanian Baron at the birth of Albanian Independence. The Memoirs of Franz Nopcsa
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ISBN: 6155225818 9786155225819 9786155225802 615522580X Year: 2014 Publisher: Budapest, Hungary : Central European University Press,

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The Austro-Hungarian aristocrat of Transylvanian origin, Baron Franz Nopcsa (1877-1933), was one of the most adventuresome travelers and scholars of Southeast Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. He was also a paleontologist of renown and a noted geologist of the Balkan Peninsula : many of his assumptions have been confirmed by science. The Memoirs of this fascinating figure deal mainly with his travels in the Balkans, and specifically in the remote and wild mountains of northern Albania, in the years from 1903 to 1914. They thus cover the period of Ottoman Rule, the Balkan Wars and the outbreak of the First World War. Nopcsa was a keen adventurer who hiked through regions of northern Albania. With time, he became a leading expert in Albanian studies. He was also deeply involved in the politics of the period. In 1913, Nopcsa even offered himself as a candidate for the vacant Albanian throne. The Introduction also tells of Nopcsa's tragic death: he shot his Albanian secretary and partner before killing himself. The memoirs themselves reveal some references to his homosexuality for those who can read between the lines.


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Auf die Tour! : Jüdinnen und Juden in Singspielhalle, Kabarett und Varieté. Zwischen Habsburgermonarchie und Amerika
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ISBN: 320521188X 3205211871 Year: 2020 Publisher: [s.l.] : Böhlau Verlag Wien,

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Auf die Tour erforscht die Teilhabe von Jüdinnen und Juden an der populären Kultur zwischen Wien, Budapest und New York um 1900. Die aufkommende Massenkultur und eine zeitgleiche Massenmigrationsbewegung beeinflussten einander und boten besondere Rahmenbedingungen für jüdisch-nichtjüdische Begegnungen: Eine neue Qualität an Mobilität verband die Hauptstädte der Habsburgermonarchie und die Vereinigten Staaten und prägte die Gesellschaft. Die Mobilität spiegelte sich in der populären Kultur wider. Volkssänger*innen, Gesangshumoristen und Soubretten griffen das Unterwegssein auf. Das bot Möglichkeiten, etwa Vorurteile, Antisemitismus, Nationalismus oder die Grenzen von Geschlechtern zu diskutieren, brachte der populären Kultur aber auch Vorwürfe und Unterstellungen ein, wie, dass sie als Deckmantel für geheime Prostitution diente oder der Untergang für "hohe" Kultur war.

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