Austria category: 467 books
by Árpád von Klimó
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Lying on the political fault line between East and West for the past seventy-five years, the significance of Hungary in geopolitical terms has far outweighed the modest size of its population. This book charts the main events of these tumultuous decades including the 1956 Uprising, the end of Hungarian...
Voelkische Bewegung zwischen Weser und Ems
Richard von Hoff und die Nordische Gesellschaft in Bremen und Nordwestdeutschland
Language: German
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Die Nordische Gesellschaft zählt zu den außergewöhnlichsten völkischen Organisationen der Zwischenkriegszeit. Seit 1933 war sie Teil des Alfred Rosenberg unterstehenden Außenpolitischen Amtes der NSDAP und erhielt offiziell den Auftrag, die nordische Rassenideologie zu fördern. Diese Studie...
«Unbeteiligte» und Betroffene
Aspekte der Wahrnehmung der NS-Konzentrationslager waehrend des Zweiten Weltkriegs sowie nach Kriegsende
Language: German
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Das Buch ist eine Bestandsaufnahme der KZ-Gedenkstättenlandschaft in Österreich und Polen und geht der Frage nach, wie die nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager von unterschiedlichen Gruppen erlebt und wahrgenommen wurden. Die «Unbeteiligten» und Betroffenen der Welt außerhalb der Konzentrationslager...
Kriegserklaerung an das alte Europa
Literarische, historiographische und autobiographische Sichtweisen auf den Ersten Weltkrieg
Language: German
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Das Buch untersucht anhand literarischer, historiographischer sowie autobiographischer Werke unterschiedliche interdisziplinäre Sichtweisen auf den Ersten Weltkrieg. Die Zäsur, die der Erste Weltkrieg in der europäischen Geschichte darstellt, veränderte das Leben der Menschen und setzte neue Maßstäbe...
by Jean Berenger, C.A. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This is the eagerly awaited second volume of Jean Bérenger's history of the Habsburgs. It covers the last two centuries of their rule and provides a compelling account of the fluctuations of Habsburg dynastic power and its disintegration after World War One. Bérenger gives a rich portrait of Habsburg...
The Rosary, the Republic, and the Right
Spain and the Vatican Hierarchy, 19311939
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The birth of the Second Spanish Republic in April 1931 ushered in a period of possible secularization to Spain. Liberals welcomed legal changes, while conservatives feared the special “privileges” they enjoyed would end. The Catholic Church remained a central focus of left-wing antagonism and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
The studies presented in the collected volume Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies -- edited by Steven Totosy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvari -- are intended as an addition to scholarship in (comparative) cultural studies. More specifically, the articles represent scholarship about Central and...
by Ernest F. Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
"The fortunes and misfortunes of a Charlemagne and Henry IV., of a Barbarossa, a Henry VI. and an Emperor Frederick II... The rise and fall of the mediæval German Empire is in itself a subject boundlessly interesting, boundlessly important. ...See how Europe has come to be what it is, and how...
A Slavic Republic of Letters
The Correspondence between Jernej Kopitar and Baron Žiga Zois
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This book discusses the correspondence between Jernej Kopitar, a co-founder of Slavic studies and proponent of Austro-Slavism, and Baron Žiga Zois, an Austrian nobleman and patron of the Slovene national revival. The author treats their letters (composed between 1808–19), which are for the most...
Der Lange Türkenkrieg (1593-1606) Vol. I
The long Turkish war - Habsburgs arrest the Ottoman advance
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
After more than half-a-century of wars in Hungary, the conflict between the Habsburgs and the Sublime Porte explodes in 1593, after a series of border incidents. The confrontation was soon regarded as crucial by both sides, also involving the neighbouring states in a complex and ruthless game of diplomacy...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Writing biographies (life stories) for a long time had been a male hegemonic project-writing the lives of great (white) men. Ever since Plutarch and Sueton composed their vitae of the greats of classical antiquity, to the medieval obsession with the hagiographies of holy men (and a few women) and...
Magyars and Political Discourses in the New Millennium
Changing Meanings in Hungary at the Start of the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
In this book, Melinda Kovács analyzes various areas of Hungarian political discourse: newspapers, party websites, informational books on the EU, and government-produced brochures sent to all households in Hungary. The inquiry is supported by an understanding of politics as achieving and negotiating...
by Francis Seymour Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
The historical interest that attaches to Montenegro is utterly out of proportion to the space that country occupies on the surface of the earth. With the exception of the politically insignificant republics of San Marino and Andorra, and of the principalities of Monaco and Liechtenstein, it is the...
Balkan Wars
Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia, 1499–1617
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This first English-language history of the western Balkans in the sixteenth century brings together rich primary research and a masterful synthesis of key work on Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia. Distinguished scholar James D. Tracy shows how the Ottoman advance across this...