Austria & Hungary

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639361953Author Angus RobertsonFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 152g

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Set in motion by the disputed succession of Maria Theresa and her husband to the lands and dignities of Emperor Charles VI, this series of major conflicts (1740-48) involved far more than just the fate of the Habsurgs: soon, Austria, Prussia, France,...

October 1944: Soviet troops launched a powerful attack on Budapest from the south, the culmination of a series of military, political, diplomatic and underground moves undertaken by Hitler, Stalin and Churchill since the collapse of the Axis front in the...

On October 23, 1956, a popular uprising against Soviet rule swept through Hungary like a force of nature, only to be mercilessly crushed by Soviet tanks twelve days later. Only now, fifty years after those harrowing events, can the full story be told...

Using evidence gathered in Europe and the United States, Evan Bukey crafts a nuanced portrait of popular opinion in Austria, Hitler's homeland, after the country was annexed by Germany in 1938. He demonstrates that despite widespread dissent, discontent...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard"A revelation."-Marc Weingarten, Washington PostAcclaimed film director Billy Wilder's early writings-brilliantly translated into English for the first timeBefore Billy Wilder became the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645439820Author Helga HatvanyFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Mascot BooksPublisher Mascot BooksWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm * 30mm

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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 was just one link in a chain of events leading to World War I and the downfall of the Austro-Hungarian empire. By 1918, after nearly four hundred years of rule, the Habsburg monarchy was expunged in...

Viennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-siecle fascination with the psyche. But this stereotype of the movement as essentially cerebral overlooks a rich cultural history of the body. The Naked Truth, an interdisciplinary tour de force,...

Tangible Belonging presents a compelling historical and ethnographic study of the German speakers in Hungary, from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Through this tumultuous period in European history, the Hungarian-German leadership...

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 Mihaly Karolyi (1875-1955) to power at the head of a National Council. Karoly concludes an armistice which leaves large...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Austrian Empire ranked third among the world's oil-producing states (surpassed only by the United States and Russia), and accounted for five percent of global oil production. By 1918, the Central Powers did...

The extraordinary and amorphous Hapsburg Empire--"that ramshackle realm" as Lloyd George called it--extended from cultivated Vienna to the remote hamlets of the Ukrainian East, and comprised a wide mixture of peoples: Magyars, Czechs, Poles and...

In this important historical account of the role that religion played in defining the political life of a modern national society, Paul A. Hanebrink shows how Hungarian nationalists redefined Hungary-a liberal society in the nineteenth century-as a...

Our ideas about the long histories of young couples' relationships and women's efforts to manage their reproductive health are often premised on the notion of a powerful sexual double standard. In Sex in an Old Regime City, Julie Hardwick offers a major...

For more than two centuries, Hungarians believed they shared an ethnic link with people of Japanese, Bulgarian, Estonian, Finnish, and Turkic descent. Known as "Turanism," this ideology impacts Hungarian politics, science, and cultural and ethnic...

This text, winner of the John Gilmary Shea Prize, examines the social and political atmosphere of late imperial Vienna. It traces the demise of Vienna's liberal culture and the growth of a new radicalism, exemplified by the rise of Karl Lueger and the...

This book offers a comparative analysis of the societal, ethnic, and cultural diversity of twelve cities in the last decades of the Habsburg Monarchy. The following cities are discussed (by their current names): Arad, Bratislava, Brno, Chernivtsi, Lviv,...

The Habsburg Monarchy has received much historiographical attention since 1945. Yet the military aspects of Austria's emergence as a European great power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have remained obscure. This book shows that force of...

Istvan Deak examines the Habsburg officer corps and the way in which it became the foremost preserver of the multi-ethnic Austro-Hungarian empire from the mid-nineteeth century to the empire's defeat in 1918. The officer corps was an important cohesive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814348383Author Elizabeth AnthonyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008937949Author Henri PozziFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

The Socialist politician Karl Renner (1870 1950) was prime minister of the government that took power in Vienna after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He lead the delegation to Paris, which had to face the difficult issue of reparations and...

An illuminating history of state-building, nationalism, and bureaucracy, this book tells the story of how an international cohort of Austrian officials from Bohemia, Hungary, the Hapsburg Netherlands, Italy, and several German states administered Galicia...

Fin-de-siecle Vienna remains a central event in the birth of the century's modern culture. Our understanding of what happened in those key decades in Central Europe at the turn of the century has been shaped in the last years by an historiography...

This book discusses the active relationship among the mechanics of memory, visual practices, and historical narratives.Reflection on memory and its ties with historical narratives cannot be separated from reflection on the visual and the image as its...

This study of prostitution addresses issues of female agency and experience, as well as contemporary fears about sexual coercion and the forced movement of girls/women, and police surveillance. Rather than treating prostitutes solely as victims or...

The Hungarian defeat to the Ottoman army at the pivotal Battle of Mohacs in 1526 led to the division of the Kingdom of Hungary into three parts, altering both the shape and the ethnic composition of Central Europe for centuries to come. Hungary thus...

In the years after the First World War both Ulster and Upper Silesia saw violent conflicts over self-determination. The violence in Upper Silesia was more intense both in the numbers killed and in the forms it took. Acts of violation such as rape or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992548452Author Gs JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint MiarebarosePublisher MiarebaroseWeight(grams) 354g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820425672Author Harry ZohnFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 580g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008941588Author Henri PozziFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008958739Author Henri PozziFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g

In March 1946 Winston Churchill warned the world about the 'Iron Curtain' that had descended across Europe and behind which now lay, he said, the eight capitals of the ancient states of central and Eastern Europe. In fact, one of these eight, Vienna,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837190242Author Denis SinorFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This work turns our assumption that the convicts who came to Australia were all white upside down. It is a great read - Cassandra Pybus is a wonderful storyteller. It picks up on an area of great and growing interest, as seen through the success of Inga...

This book addresses a number of interrelated themes over two hundred years and more in the political, religious, cultural, and social history of a broad but often neglected swathe of the European continent. It seeks - against the grain of conventional...