Embers of empire : continuity and rupture in the Habsburg successor states after 1918 /

"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 historie...

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Other Authors: Miller-Melamed, Paul, 1964- (Editor), Morelon, Claire, 1984- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2019
Series:Austrian and Habsburg studies ; Volume 22
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Table of Contents:
  • Negotiating post-imperial transitions: local societies and nationalizing states in East Central Europe / Gabor Egry
  • State legitimacy and continuity between the Habsburg Empire and Czechoslovakia: the 1918 transition in Prague / Claire Morelon
  • Strangers among friends: Leon Bilinski between imperial Austria and New Poland / Iryna Vushko
  • Ideology on display: continuity and rupture at exhibitions in Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia, 1873-1928 / Marta Filipova
  • Reflections on the legacy of the Imperial and Royal Army in the successor states / Richard Bassett
  • Imperial into national officers: K.u.K. officers of Romanian nationality before and after the Great War / Irina Marin
  • Shades of empire: Austro-Hungarian officers, Frankists, and the afterlives of Austria-Hungary in Croatia, 1918-1929 / John Paul Newman
  • "All the German princes driven out!" the Catholic Church in Vienna and the first Austrian Republic / Michael Carter-Sinclair
  • Wealthy landowners or weak remnants of the imperial past? Central European nobles during and after the First World War / Konstantinos Raptis
  • Sinner, saint, or cipher? The Austrian Republic and the death of Emperor Karl I / Christopher Brennan
  • "What did they die for?" War remembrance in Austria in the transition from empire to nation state / Christoph Mick
  • "The first victim of the First World War": Franz Ferdinand in Austrian memory / Paul Miller.