Embers of Empire : : Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918 /

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

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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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (366 p.)
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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

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