There was more to World War I than the Western Front. This history juxtaposes the experiences of a monarch and a peasant on the Eastern Front. Franz Josef I, emperor of Austria-Hungary, was the first European leader to declare war in 1914 and was the first to commence firing. Samuel Mozolak was a Slovak laborer who sailed to New York--and fathered twins, taken as babies (and U.S. citizens) to his home village--before being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army and killed in combat. The author interprets the views of the war of Franz Josef and his contemporaries Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar…mehr
There was more to World War I than the Western Front. This history juxtaposes the experiences of a monarch and a peasant on the Eastern Front. Franz Josef I, emperor of Austria-Hungary, was the first European leader to declare war in 1914 and was the first to commence firing. Samuel Mozolak was a Slovak laborer who sailed to New York--and fathered twins, taken as babies (and U.S. citizens) to his home village--before being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army and killed in combat. The author interprets the views of the war of Franz Josef and his contemporaries Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II. Mozolak's story depicts the life of a peasant in an army staffed by aristocrats, and also illustrates the pattern of East European immigration to America.
Kenneth Janda, Payson S. Wild Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University, received the Frank J. Goodnow Award from the American Political Science Association in 2009. He has authored or edited several books on computer methods of data analysis, the cross-national study of political parties, and American government. He lives in Roseville, Minnesota.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Prologue: The Habsburg Empire and the Great War 1. The Emperor in Vienna 2. The Peasant in Krajné 3. The Emperor's Subjects 4. The Peasant's Voyage 5. Imperial Ignorance 6. Peasants in Passage 7. Imperial Deciders 8. Peasants Under Arms 9. Imperial Armies 10. Peasants in Peril 11. Imperial Irrelevance 12. Peasants in War 13. Imperial Losses 14. Peasant Gains Epilogue: Immigration and Self-Determination Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Prologue: The Habsburg Empire and the Great War 1. The Emperor in Vienna 2. The Peasant in Krajné 3. The Emperor's Subjects 4. The Peasant's Voyage 5. Imperial Ignorance 6. Peasants in Passage 7. Imperial Deciders 8. Peasants Under Arms 9. Imperial Armies 10. Peasants in Peril 11. Imperial Irrelevance 12. Peasants in War 13. Imperial Losses 14. Peasant Gains Epilogue: Immigration and Self-Determination Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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