Austria category: 467 books
Orbán
Hungary's Strongman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
A no-holds-barred biography of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has become a pivotal figure in European politics since 2010, this is the first English- language study of the erstwhile anti-communist rebel turned populist autocrat. Through a masterly and cynical manipulation of ethnic nationalism,...
Popular Sufism in Eastern Europe
Sufi Brotherhoods and the Dialogue with Christianity and 'Heterodoxy'
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This is a detailed description of the various Sufi orders and movements which entered into the Balkans, the Crimean peninsula and other parts of Eastern Europe following the Ottoman conquests. Many of the Sufis came from Christian societies, principally from an Eastern Orthodox background, but others,...
The Vienna Circle
The Origins of Neo-Positivism
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Join original Vienna Circle member Victor Kraft in his discussion of the movement for an exclusive insider’s view of this important point in philosophical history. In this in-depth philosophical study, Victor Kraft explores the role the Vienna Circle had on the international philosophical movement....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In May 1938, Hungary passed anti-Semitic laws causing hundreds of Jewish artists to lose their jobs. In response, Budapest's Jewish community leaders organized an Artistic Enterprise under the aegis of OMIKE Országos Magyar Izraelita Közművelődési Egyesület (Hungarian Jewish Education Association)...
From Prejudice to Persecution
A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
According to Simon Wiesenthal, nearly half of the crimes associated with the Holocaust were committed by Austrians, who comprised just 8.5 percent of the population of Hitler's Greater German Reich. Bruce Pauley's book explains this phenomenon by providing a history of Austrian anti-Semitism and Jewish...
Beyond Nationalism
A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1990
In the last seventy years of its long and distinguished existence, the Habsburg monarchy was plagued by the forces of rising nationalism. Still, it preserved domestic peace and provided the conditions for social, economic, and cultural progress in a vast area inhabited by eleven major nationalities...
The Limits of Loyalty
Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The overwhelming majority of historical work on the late Habsburg Monarchy has focused primarily on national movements and ethnic conflicts, with the result that too little attention has been devoted to the state and ruling dynasty. This volume is the first of its kind to concentrate on attempts by...
Embracing Democracy
Hermann Broch, Politics and Exile, 1918 to 1951
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Hermann Broch wrote two of the most significant novels of German modernism, The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil, which established his importance to German literature. His writings on democracy, mass delusion and internationalism are more obscure. Embracing Democracy examines the central political,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The Viennese café was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural,...
The White War
Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random...
Karolyi & Bethlen
Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
White aster flowers, on sale on the streets of Budapest on the eve of All Souls' Day, are made the symbol of a revolution which brings Mihály Károlyi (1875-1955) to power at the head of a National Council. Károlyi concludes an armistice which leaves large areas of Hungarian territory under occupation...
Tropics of Vienna
Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a quasi-colonial arrangement that inevitably...
The Doctor Who Dared
The Story of Henry Price MD Berlin; MB, BS BRISBANE
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In 1953 the name of Dr Henry Price was catapulted across the headlines of Australian newspapers. A post World War II German - Jewish immigrant, he made legal and medical history by taking to court eleven Australian doctors on charges of defamation, conspiracy and libel.The case, heard in the...
by Zoltán Frankl
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Originally written and publilshed in 1995, this is the memoir of Zoltán Frankl, who was born in Hungary in 1907, to a Jewish family.
His father was a respected doctor and one of the leaders of the local community. Zoltán Frankl had an extraordinary life, beginning as a young medical student...