The First World War and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914-1918 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First World War and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914-1918 write by Manfried Rauchensteiner. This book was released on 2014. The First World War and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914-1918 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The origins of World War I were different and varied. But it was Austria-Hungary which unleashed the war. After more than four years the Habsburg Monarchy was defeated and ended as a failed state.
Embers of Empire
Embers of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Embers of Empire write by Paul Miller. This book was released on 2018-11-29. Embers of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
From Empire to Republic
From Empire to Republic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Empire to Republic write by Collectif. This book was released on 2016-09-29. From Empire to Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Austria transformed itself from an empire to a small Central European country. Formerly an important player in international affairs, the new republic was quickly sidelined by the European concert of powers. The enormous losses of territory and population in Austria's post-Habsburg state of existence, however, did not result in a political, economic, cultural, and intellectual black hole. The essays in the twentieth anniversary volume of Contemporary Austrian Studies argue that the small Austrian nation found its place in the global arena of the twentieth century and made a mark both on Europe and the world. Be it Freudian psychoanalysis, the “fin-de-siècle” Vienna culture of modernism, Austro-Marxist thought, or the Austrian School of Economics, Austrian hinkers and ideas were still wielding a notable impact on the world. Alongside these cultural and intellectual dimensions, Vienna remained the Austrian capital and reasserted its strong position in Central European and international business and finance. Innovative Austrian companies are operating all over the globe. This volume also examines how the globalizing world of the twentieth century has impacted Austrian demography, society, and political life. Austria's place in the contemporary world is increasingly determined by the forces of the European integration process. European Union membership brings about convergence and a regional orientation with ramifications for Austria's global role. Austria emerges in the essays of this volume as a highly globalized country with an economy, society, and political culture deeply grounded in Europe. The globalization of Austria, it appears, turns out to be in many instances an “Europeanization”.
The Emperor and the Peasant
The Emperor and the Peasant - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Emperor and the Peasant write by Kenneth Janda. This book was released on 2018-01-12. The Emperor and the Peasant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There was more to World War I than the Western Front. This history juxtaposes the experiences of a monarch and a peasant on the Eastern Front. Franz Josef I, emperor of Austria-Hungary, was the first European leader to declare war in 1914 and was the first to commence firing. Samuel Mozolak was a Slovak laborer who sailed to New York--and fathered twins, taken as babies (and U.S. citizens) to his home village--before being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army and killed in combat. The author interprets the views of the war of Franz Josef and his contemporaries Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II. Mozolak's story depicts the life of a peasant in an army staffed by aristocrats, and also illustrates the pattern of East European immigration to America.
The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire
The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire write by Martin Thomas. This book was released on 2018. The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the collapse of empires in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors convey the global reach of decolonization, analysing the ways in which European, Asian, and African empires disintegrated over the past century.
