Embers of Empire : : Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918 / / ed. by Claire Morelon, Paul Miller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Bassett, Richard,; Brennan, Christopher,; Carter-Sinclair, Michael,; Egry, Gábor,; Filipová, Marta,; Judson, Pieter M.,; Marin, Irina,; Mick, Christoph,; Miller, Paul,; Morelon, Claire,; Newman, John Paul,; Raptis, Konstantinos,; Vushko, Iryna,
• HerausgeberIn: Miller, Paul,; Morelon, Claire,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies ; 22
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (366 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- Chapter 2. State Legitimacy and Continuity between the Habsburg Empire and Czechoslovakia: The 1918 Transition in Prague -- Chapter 3. Strangers among Friends: Leon Biliński between Imperial Austria and New Poland -- Chapter 4. Ideology on Display: Continuity and Rupture at Exhibitions in Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia, 1873–1928 -- Part II. The Habsburg Army’s Final Battles -- Chapter 5. Reflections on the Legacy of the Imperial and Royal Army in the Successor States -- Chapter 6. Imperial into National Officers: K. (u.) k. Officers of Romanian Nationality before and after the Great War -- Chapter 7. Shades of Empire: Austro-Hungarian Officers, Frankists, and the Afterlives of Austria-Hungary in Croatia, 1918–1929 -- Part III. Church, Dynasty, Aristocracy: The Postwar Fate of Imperial Pillars -- Chapter 8. “All the German Princes Driven Out!” The Catholic Church in Vienna and the First Austrian Republic -- Chapter 9. Wealthy Landowners or Weak Remnants of the Imperial Past? Central European Nobles during and after the First World War -- Chapter 10. Sinner, Saint—or Cipher? The Austrian Republic and the Death of Emperor Karl I -- 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 -- Chapter 12. “The First Victim of the First World War”: Franz Ferdinand in Austrian Memory -- Afterword -- Index