The Last Years Of Austria-Hungary
A Multi-National Experiment in Early Twentieth-Century Europe
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
240 pages
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8-4/5 x 5-9/10
The emergence of central Europe and the Balkans as a major area of interest and international concern in post-Cold War Europe have given the fall of the Habsburg Empire and the consequences of that fall considerable contemporary resonance. The Empire was an experiment in multi-national politics, and how different ethnic and religious groups live or do not live together is very much what this book is about.
The eight essays in this volume seek to unravel the complexities of the final twenty years of Austria-Hungary and its eventual disintegration, tackling from different angles the political, social and international challenges to the Empire's existence. The book successfully fills a gap in the market between expensive textbooks and very specialist articles and monographs and as such will appeal both to students and to the general reader interested in the Habsburgs and the Great War.
Contents
Introduction , Mark Cornwall
The Foreign Policy of the Monarchy , F.R. Bridge, Emeritus Professor of International History, University of Leeds
The Foreign Policy of the Monarchy , F.R. Bridge, Emeritus Professor of International History, University of Leeds
‘Well-Tempered Discontent’: Austrian Domestic Politics , Lothar Höbelt, Assistant Professor and Universitätsdozent at Institut für Geschichte, University of Vienna
The Bohemian Question , Catherine Albrecht, Associate Professor, University of Baltimore
The Hungarian Political Scene , Tibor Zsuppán, formerly Lecturer in History, University of St Andrews
The Southern Slav Question , Janko Pleterski, Emeritus Professor of University of Ljubljana
The Eastern Front , Rudolf Jerábek, Senior Archivist at the Austrian State Archives, Vienna
Disintegration and Defeat: the Austro-Hungarian Revolution , Mark Cornwall
Appendix
Documents: The Final Meetings of the Common Ministerial Council
Further Reading
Index
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