Austria & Hungary

In 1837, the power of Daniel O'Connell's oratory focused the attention of Europeans on Ireland. They were horrified at what they saw there. The Irish poor - a third of the population - had no food except the potatoes they grew, and not enough...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

Brigitte Hamann portrays Rudolf von Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria, as a liberal intellectual who stood in opposition to his father Emperor Franz Josef and the imperial establishment. Against the prevailing currents of his time, Rudolf wanted to...

The Will to Survive describes how a small country, for much of its existence squeezed between two empires, surrounded by hostile neighbours and subjected to invasion and occupation, survived the frequent tragedies of its eventful history to become a...

This unorthodox scholarly work dissects the ghosts of history in order to analyze how the past-both recent and distant-haunts posterity, and in what ways the present disfigures the image of times gone by. The book presents a novel history of Communism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637162217Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm)...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551647159Author Andras B. GoellnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose BooksWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm) 228mm...

Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of the...

The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781422376294Author Alfred D. LowFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

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Well before the far-right resurgence that has most recently transformed European politics, Austria’s 1999 parliamentary elections surprised the world with the unexpected success of the Freedom Party of Austria and its charismatic leader, Jörg Haider...

Following the imposition of Habsburg rule on Ottoman Bosnia in 1878, a new garrison was constructed in the old citadel of Trebinje. By using a micro-historical approach, this innovative book tells the story of the garrison in times of peace and war,...

The Austro-Hungarian aristocrat of Transylvanian origin, Baron Franz Nopcsa (1877-1933), was one of the most adventuresome travelers and scholars of Southeast Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. He was also a paleontologist of renown...

As US troops marched into vanquished Austria at the end of World War II, they faced the dual tasks of destroying the remnants of Nazi power and establishing a new democratic nation. The American military forces were adept at the first task; they were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362922601Author Hrabe Francis LützowPage Count 134Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Miksa Fenyo (1877-1972) was a Hungarian writer and intellectual who served as a member of parliament and was a member of the Hungarian cabinet for a short while. In 1934 he published a study on the threat that Hitler posed to Europe, which greatly...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700168881Author Austrian Academy of Sciences PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700127758Author Elizabeth LichtenbergerFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Austrian Academy of SciencesPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences

This book documents the personal experiences of the author who was privy to wars, revolutions and regime changes during a volatile century. Forced to become a professional officer, he participated in all wars and revolutions following World War I. He...

This volume surveys Hungary's defense policies in the era of 1938-1945. It focuses on the gradual involvement of the country in Germany's war and the partial rectification of Hungary's borders as defined by the Trianon Peace Treaty. It concludes with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781249609100Author William CoxeFormat PaperbackPage Count 548Imprint Saraswati PressPublisher Saraswati PressWeight(grams) 189g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700107125Author Austrian Academy of Sciences PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 1102Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943596270Author Jeffrey KaplanFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Helena History Press LLCPublisher Helena History Press LLCWeight(grams) 526g

Finding Order in Diversity: Religious Toleration in the Habsburg Empire, 1792-1848 covers the tumultuous period in the Habsburg Empire from Joseph II's failed reforms through the Revolutions of 1848, documenting the ongoing struggle between religious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793634375Author Zsuzsanna VargaFormat PaperbackImprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

In this unique memoir, now in English for the first time, Israel's first Poet Laureate Avigdor Hameiri details a trip to Europe in 1930 from the perspective of a Hungarian Jew who had served in the Habsburg Army. Upon visiting Austria, Hungary, Romania...

Backyard Revolution contributes in-depth socio-cultural histories of the popular antisemitic pogroms that shook Hungary in the spring and summer of 1946. Expanding the scope of investigation of serial mass violence towards Jewish communities beyond the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083533Author Nicholas T. ParsonsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street PublishingWeight(grams) 400g