From Empire to Republic
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Introduction
Leopold Count Berchtold: The Man Who Could Have Prevented the Great War
On the Eve
Sunday, 28 June 1914, 9 a.m., Buchlau, Moravia
Berchtold Seeks to Gain Control of Habsburg Foreign Policy
Dinnertime: Tuesday, 30 June 1914
Days to War
Why War?
Topical Essays
I. End of Empire/Early Republic: Political (Domestic and Foreign) Legacies
Was There an Austrian Stab-in-the-Back Myth? Interwar Military Interpretations of Defeat
Introduction
The Dolchstoss in Comparative Context
Austrian Implications of a Dolchstoss Phenomenon
Conclusion
Dismantling Empire: Ignaz Seipel and Austria's Financial Crisis, 1922-1925
Austria’s Imperial Inheritance
Financial crisis and reconstruction
II. Costs of War: Social/Mental/Cultural Legacies
Demographic Transitions Accellerated: Abortion, Body Politics, and the End of Supra-Regional Labor Immigration in Post-War Austria
The Legacy of War
An “Overpopulated” New State?
The Acceleration of Epidemiologic Transition
Austria: The Core of the “Quiet Revolution” in Interwar Europe
Illegitimacy: Stable Patterns, Changing Attitudes
Government Care of War Widows and Disabled Veterans after World War I
The Pension System: Fundamental Principles and Realisation in Practice
The Disabled Veterans’ Movement: Formation and Orientation
Conclusion
A Partnership of the Weak: War Victims and the State in the Early First Austrian Republic
The Austrian Public Authority at a Moment of Weakness, and a Tale from Bruck an der Leitha
The “State-Friendly” War Victims
The Partnership of the Weak
Conclusion
Memory-Landscapes of the First World War: The Southwestern Front in Present-Day Italy, Austria and Slovenia
“Lieux de Mémoire”: From the National to the Regional Level
The Political Contexts of Memory Landscapes in the Area of the Southwestern Front
Patterns of Regional Historiography Relating to the First World War
Is There a New View on the Traces of War in the Landscapes of the Southwestern Theater of War?
Reasons for Mooring the First World War in the Regional Functional Memory
Pan-Germanism after Empire: Austrian “Germandom” at Home and Abroad
“Pan-Germans” and Pan-Germanism
Germandom at Home: Rebuilding Austria’s German heritage
Germandom Abroad: Activists and Missionaries for German Austria
Sudeten Germans in Austria after the First World War
Introduction
Constitutional aspects
Sudeten Germans and Sudetenland: Conceptual Aspects
Societal aspects
Aspects of the public discussions
Final remarks
Consensus vs. Control: The Politics of Culture in Interwar Austria, a Reassessment (with special emphasis on literature and the theatre)
I: Literary Background: The Inconsistent Mapping of Themes to Political Ideology, 1918-1934
II: Institutional Factors for Overlap, 1918-1934
III: The “Corporate State,” 1934-38: Internal Tensions
Conclusion
Jewish Education in Interwar Vienna: Cooperation, Compromise and Conflict Between the Austrian State and the Viennese Jewish Community
Introduction
Decision Making in the IKG
Conversion, Intermarriage and the Denomination of Children
Religious Exercises and Customs in Public Schools
Religious Exercises
The Sabbath at Public Schools
Head Covering
The Parallel Class Crisis, the Jewish Primary School and the Road to Segregation
The Parallelklassenverordnung
The Jewish Primary School
Towards Complete Segregation
Conclusion
III. Habsburg Successor States: Economic Legacies
Under Pressure to Adapt: Corporate Business and the New Order in Post-1918 Central Europe
1. The Immediate Economic and Political Consequences of World War I for Corporate Business in Central and Eastern Europe
2. The Banking Sector in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Austria after World War I
3. Adaptive Strategies of Industrial Firms
3.1 Coal and Steel
3.2 Selected Mechanical Engineering Companies
3.3 Mautner Textile Group
4. Conclusions
Wealth, Poverty and Institutions in the Habsburg Empire’s Successor States (1918-1929)
Introduction
Institutions in the service of revisionism: the case of Hungary in the 1920s
Institutions in the grip of party politics: the case of Austria’s First Republic, 1918-1933
Institutions as a vehicle of national unity: the case of Czechoslovakia in the 1920s
Institutions and the clash of traditions: a brief survey of Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia in the 1920s
Conclusion
Coda: A Twentieth Century Family
Books reviews
Brigitte Hamann, Hitlers Edeljude: Das Leben des Armenarztes Eduard Bloch
Munich: Piper, 2008
Richard Faber and Sigurd Paul Scheichl, eds., Die geistige Welt des Friedrich Heer
Vienna: Böhlau, 2008
Bertrand Michael Buchmann, Österreicher in der Deutschen Wehrmacht: Soldatenalltag im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Vienna: Böhlau, 2009
Wolfgang Schüssel with Alexander Purger, Offengelgt
Salzburg: Ecowin, 2009
Annual review
Austria 2009
Elections EU-Parliament in Austria
Elections in Upper Austria and in Vorarlberg
AUA and Hypo Group Alpe Adria
BZÖ, FPK and FPÖ
Economic and Statistical Data
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