The collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of World War I ushered in a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities. Yet this transformed landscape inevitably still bore the traces of its imperial past. Breaking with traditional histories that take 1918 as a strict line of demarcation, this collection focuses on the complexities that attended the transition from the Habsburg Empire to its successor states. In so doing, it produces new and more nuanced insights into the persistence and effectiveness of imperial institutions, as well as the sources of instability in the newly formed nation-states.…mehr
The collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of World War I ushered in a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities. Yet this transformed landscape inevitably still bore the traces of its imperial past. Breaking with traditional histories that take 1918 as a strict line of demarcation, this collection focuses on the complexities that attended the transition from the Habsburg Empire to its successor states. In so doing, it produces new and more nuanced insights into the persistence and effectiveness of imperial institutions, as well as the sources of instability in the newly formed nation-states.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Paul Miller is Associate Professor of History at McDaniel College in Maryland, USA. His current research concerns the history and memory of the Sarajevo assassination.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Claire Morelon PART I: PERMANENCE AND REVOLUTION: NATIONAL POLITICS IN THE TRANSITION TO THE SUCCESSOR STATES Chapter 1. Negotiating Post-Imperial Transitions: Local Societies and Nationalizing States in East Central Europe Gábor Egry Chapter 2. State Legitimacy and Continuity between the Habsburg Empire and Czechoslovakia: The 1918 Transition in Prague Claire Morelon Chapter 3. Strangers among Friends: Leon Bilinski between Imperial Austria and New Poland Iryna Vushko Chapter 4. Ideology on Display: Continuity and Rupture at Exhibitions in Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia, 1873-1928 Marta Filipová PART II: THE HABSBURG ARMY'S FINAL BATTLES Chapter 5. Reflections on the Legacy of the Imperial and Royal Army in the Successor States Richard Bassett Chapter 6. Imperial into National Officers: K.(u.) K. Officers of Romanian Nationality Before and after the Great War Irina Marin Chapter 7. Shades of Empire: Austro-Hungarian Officers, Frankists, and the Afterlives of Austria-Hungary in Croatia, 1918-1929 John Paul Newman PART III: CHURCH, DYNASTY, ARISTOCRACY: THE POST-WAR FATE OF IMPERIAL PILLARS Chapter 8. "All the German Princes Driven Out!": The Catholic Church in Vienna and the First Austrian Republic Michael Carter-Sinclair Chapter 9. Wealthy Landowners or Weak Remnants of the Imperial Past?: Central European Nobles during and after the First World War Konstantinos Raptis Chapter 10. Sinner, Saint¿or Cipher?: The Austrian Republic and the Death of Emperor Karl I Christopher Brennan PART IV: HISTORY, MEMORY, MENTALITÉ: PROCESSING THE EMPIRE'S PASSING Chapter 11. "What Did They Die For?": War Remembrance in Austria in the Transition from Empire to Nation State Christoph Mick Chapter 12. "The First Victim of the First World War": Franz Ferdinand in Austrian Memory Paul Miller Afterword Pieter M. Judson Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Claire Morelon PART I: PERMANENCE AND REVOLUTION: NATIONAL POLITICS IN THE TRANSITION TO THE SUCCESSOR STATES Chapter 1. Negotiating Post-Imperial Transitions: Local Societies and Nationalizing States in East Central Europe Gábor Egry Chapter 2. State Legitimacy and Continuity between the Habsburg Empire and Czechoslovakia: The 1918 Transition in Prague Claire Morelon Chapter 3. Strangers among Friends: Leon Bilinski between Imperial Austria and New Poland Iryna Vushko Chapter 4. Ideology on Display: Continuity and Rupture at Exhibitions in Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia, 1873-1928 Marta Filipová PART II: THE HABSBURG ARMY'S FINAL BATTLES Chapter 5. Reflections on the Legacy of the Imperial and Royal Army in the Successor States Richard Bassett Chapter 6. Imperial into National Officers: K.(u.) K. Officers of Romanian Nationality Before and after the Great War Irina Marin Chapter 7. Shades of Empire: Austro-Hungarian Officers, Frankists, and the Afterlives of Austria-Hungary in Croatia, 1918-1929 John Paul Newman PART III: CHURCH, DYNASTY, ARISTOCRACY: THE POST-WAR FATE OF IMPERIAL PILLARS Chapter 8. "All the German Princes Driven Out!": The Catholic Church in Vienna and the First Austrian Republic Michael Carter-Sinclair Chapter 9. Wealthy Landowners or Weak Remnants of the Imperial Past?: Central European Nobles during and after the First World War Konstantinos Raptis Chapter 10. Sinner, Saint¿or Cipher?: The Austrian Republic and the Death of Emperor Karl I Christopher Brennan PART IV: HISTORY, MEMORY, MENTALITÉ: PROCESSING THE EMPIRE'S PASSING Chapter 11. "What Did They Die For?": War Remembrance in Austria in the Transition from Empire to Nation State Christoph Mick Chapter 12. "The First Victim of the First World War": Franz Ferdinand in Austrian Memory Paul Miller Afterword Pieter M. Judson Index
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