Embers of Empire

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.

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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