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Embers of Empire

Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918

Paul Miller, Claire Morelon (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
366 Seiten
2018
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-022-5 (ISBN)
179,95 inkl. MwSt
The end of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy radically reshaped the political structures and national identity of East-Central Europe. Embers of Empire focuses on this complex and disruptive transition and sheds new light on the efficacity of imperial institutions.
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.

Paul Miller teaches history at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland) and at McDaniel College in the U.S. His forthcoming book, Misfire: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I, will be published by Oxford University Press in February 2022.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments



Introduction

Claire Morelon



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    

Gábor Egry



Chapter 2. State Legitimacy and Continuity between the Habsburg Empire and Czechoslovakia: The 1918 Transition in Prague    

Claire Morelon



Chapter 3. Strangers among Friends: Leon Biliński between Imperial Austria and New Poland    

Iryna Vushko



Chapter 4. Ideology on Display: Continuity and Rupture at Exhibitions in Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia, 1873–1928    

Marta Filipová



PART II: THE HABSBURG ARMY'S FINAL BATTLES



Chapter 5. Reflections on the Legacy of the Imperial and Royal Army in the Successor States    

Richard Bassett



Chapter 6. Imperial into National Officers: K.(u.) K. Officers of Romanian Nationality Before and after the Great War    

Irina Marin



Chapter 7. Shades of Empire: Austro-Hungarian Officers, Frankists, and the Afterlives of Austria-Hungary in Croatia, 1918–1929    

John Paul Newman



PART III: CHURCH, DYNASTY, ARISTOCRACY: THE POST-WAR FATE OF IMPERIAL PILLARS



Chapter 8. “All the German Princes Driven Out!”: The Catholic Church in Vienna and the First Austrian Republic    

Michael Carter-Sinclair



Chapter 9. Wealthy Landowners or Weak Remnants of the Imperial Past?: Central European Nobles during and after the First World War    

Konstantinos Raptis



Chapter 10. Sinner, Saint―or Cipher?: The Austrian Republic and the Death of Emperor Karl I     

Christopher Brennan



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    

Christoph Mick



Chapter 12. “The First Victim of the First World War”: Franz Ferdinand in Austrian Memory    

Paul Miller



Afterword

Pieter M. Judson



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Austrian and Habsburg Studies
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeines / Lexika
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
ISBN-10 1-78920-022-9 / 1789200229
ISBN-13 978-1-78920-022-5 / 9781789200225
Zustand Neuware
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