From Empire to Republic
Post-World War I Austria
Contemporary Austrian StudiesÉditeur : innsbruck university press, University of New Orleans Press
Lieu d’édition : Innsbruck
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 29 septembre 2016
Collection : Contemporary Austrian Studies
Année d’édition : 2010
Nombre de pages : 448
Présentation
After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Austria transformed itself from an empire to a small Central European country. Formerly an important player in international affairs, the new republic was quickly sidelined by the European concert of powers. The enormous losses of territory and population in Austria's post-Habsburg state of existence, however, did not result in a political, economic, cultural, and intellectual black hole. The essays in the twentieth anniversary volume of Contemporary Austrian Studies argue that the small Austrian nation found its place in the global arena of the twentieth century and made a mark both on Europe and the world. Be it Freudian psychoanalysis, the “fin-de-siècle” Vienna culture of modernism, Austro-Marxist thought, or the Austrian School of Economics, Austrian hinkers and ideas were still wielding a notable impact on the world. Alongside these cultural and intellectual dimensions, Vienna remained the Austrian capital and reasserted its strong position in Central European and international business and finance. Innovative Austrian companies are operating all over the globe.
This volume also examines how the globalizing world of the twentieth century has impacted Austrian demography, society, and political life. Austria's place in the contemporary world is increasingly determined by the forces of the European integration process. European Union membership brings about convergence and a regional orientation with ramifications for Austria's global role. Austria emerges in the essays of this volume as a highly globalized country with an economy, society, and political culture deeply grounded in Europe. The globalization of Austria, it appears, turns out to be in many instances an “Europeanization”.
Sommaire
Günter Bischof
PrefaceIntroduction
Samuel R. Williamson
Leopold Count Berchtold: The Man Who Could Have Prevented the Great WarTopical Essays
I. End of Empire/Early Republic: Political (Domestic and Foreign) Legacies
Wolfgang Maderthaner
Utopian Perspectives and Political Restraint: The Austrian Revolution in the Context of Central European ConflictsPatrick J. Houlihan
Was There an Austrian Stab-in-the-Back Myth? Interwar Military Interpretations of DefeatNicole M. Phelps
"A status Which Does Not Exist Anymore": Austrian and Hungarian Enemy Aliens in the United States, 1917-21Siegfried Beer
Selectively Perceived Legacies of World War I: The Little-Known Halstead Mission in Austria, 1919II. Costs of War: Social/Mental/Cultural Legacies
Verena Pawlowsky et Harald Wendelin
Government Care of War Widows and Disabled Veterans after World War IKe-chin Hsia
A Partnership of the Weak: War Victims and the State in the Early First Austrian RepublicGunda Barth-Scalmani
Memory-Landscapes of the First World War: The Southwestern Front in Present-Day Italy, Austria and SloveniaJohannes Koll
Sudeten Germans in Austria after the First World WarSara O.M. Yanovsky
Jewish Education in Interwar Vienna: Cooperation, Compromise and Conflict Between the Austrian State and the Viennese Jewish CommunityIII. Habsburg Successor States: Economic Legacies
Andreas Resch
Under Pressure to Adapt: Corporate Business and the New Order in Post-1918 Central EuropeCoda: A Twentieth Century Family
Books reviews
Evan B. Bukey
Brigitte Hamann, Hitlers Edeljude: Das Leben des Armenarztes Eduard BlochMunich: Piper, 2008
William Johnston
Richard Faber and Sigurd Paul Scheichl, eds., Die geistige Welt des Friedrich HeerVienna: Böhlau, 2008
Michael S. Maier
Bertrand Michael Buchmann, Österreicher in der Deutschen Wehrmacht: Soldatenalltag im Zweiten WeltkriegVienna: Böhlau, 2009
Alexander Smith
Martin Strauβ and Karl-Heinz Ströhle, eds., Sanktionen—10 Jahre danach: Die Maβnahmen der Länder der Europäischen Union gegen die österreichische Regierung im Jahr 2000Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2010
Annual review
Reinhold Gärtner
Austria 2009Le texte seul est utilisable sous licence Licence OpenEdition Books. Les autres éléments (illustrations, fichiers annexes importés) sont « Tous droits réservés », sauf mention contraire.