Austria & Hungary 47

The Kościuszko Uprising: Poland's Revolutionary Struggle for Freedom,1794 In 1794, Poland made a desperate stand against the empires that would erase it from the map. Led by Tadeusz Kościuszko, a he……続きを見る

Malvina's Budapest Before the Empire Crumbled A Feminist Novella A Jewish Hungarian Girl Is the Architect of Her Own Dreams Before the shadow of 1944 fell across Budapest, the city pulsed with possi……続きを見る

In The History of the Austrian Empire, John S. C. Abbott recounts the Habsburg saga from medieval ascendancy to the nineteenth century, balancing court portraiture with campaigns against Ottomans, R……続きを見る

In The Rise and Fall of Austria or the Habsburg Empire, John S. C. Abbott charts the Habsburgs' climb from Alpine duchy to multinational power and their long crisis. From Maximilian's marriage polit……続きを見る

Spanning the Habsburgs' thirteenth-century consolidation to 1789, The Complete History of the Habsburg Empire: 1232–1789 offers a lucid chronological synthesis of dynastic ascent, confessional confl……続きを見る

History of the Habsburg Empire offers a panoramic account from the dynasty's medieval ascent to nineteenth-century upheavals, moving through the Reformation and Thirty Years' War, the Ottoman fronti……続きを見る

Este volumen reúne 24 estudios que, desde diversas disciplinas como la literatura, la traducción, la historia y la cultura, abordan la riqueza de la cultura hispánica desde una perspectiva mediterrá……続きを見る

The Hungarian defeat to the Ottoman army at the pivotal Battle of Mohács in 1526 led to the division of the Kingdom of Hungary into three parts, altering both the shape and the ethnic composition of……続きを見る

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 lan……続きを見る

Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often c……続きを見る

Set in a multiethnic region of the nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, this thoroughly interdisciplinary study maps out how the competing Romanian, Hungarian and German nationalization projects deal……続きを見る

Across eighteenth-century Europe, political power resided overwhelmingly with absolute monarchs, with notable exceptions including the much-studied British Parliament as well as the frequently overl……続きを見る

The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital of Vienna……続きを見る

The overwhelming majority of historical work on the late Habsburg Monarchy has focused primarily on national movements and ethnic conflicts, with the result that too little attention has been devote……続きを見る

At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud’s investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this ‘territory’ in the Austro-Hung……続きを見る

Bosnian Muslims, East African Masai, Czech-speaking Austrians, North American indigenous peoples, and Jewish immigrants from across Europeーthe nineteenth-century British and Habsburg Empires were c……続きを見る

From its emergence out of the ashes of World War II through to the economic and political challenges of today, Austria has embodied many of the contradictions of recent European history. Written by ……続きを見る

When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first of ……続きを見る

Out of a film culture originally starved of funds have emerged rich and eclectic works by film-makers that are now achieving the international recognition that they deserve: Barbara Albert, Michael ……続きを見る

The Viennese café was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellec……続きを見る

Assessing the impact of fin-de-siècle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing acr……続きを見る

Following the transformations and conflicts of the first half of the twentieth century, Austria’s emergence as an independent democracy heralded a new era of stability and prosperity for the nation.……続きを見る

Vienna’s unique intellectual, political, and religious traditions had a powerful impact on the transformation of sexual knowledge in the early twentieth century. Whereas turn-of-the-century sexology……続きを見る

From the 1860s onward, Habsburg Hungary attempted a massive project of cultural assimilation to impose a unified national identity on its diverse populations. In one of the more quixotic episodes in……続きを見る

This book examines the place of women in Soviet Russia from the 1917 Revolution through the post-World War II period, discussing how the Soviet construction of gender perpetuated inequality even as ……続きを見る

In nineteenth century Cisleithanian Austria, poor, working-class women underwent mass migrations from the countryside to urban centers for menial or unskilled labor jobs. Through legal provisions on……続きを見る

The existence and achievements of Jewish “self-rescuers” within Nazi-occupied Hungary remains, in spite of their significance, historically underexplored. In this illuminating chronicle of the life ……続きを見る

In 89 A.D., following a failed insurrection by the governor of Upper Germania, the disgraced Legio XXI, Rapax, is dispatched to Pannonia, on the River Danube. The legion is purged of its senior offi……続きを見る

In the shadow of the Cold War, U.S. Army officer Nick Andrews is sent into Hungary under diplomatic cover. His mission: observe the rising tension behind the Iron Curtain and report back. No interfe……続きを見る

Michele Lang is the author of the acclaimed LADY LAZARUS historical fantasy series from Tor. In this little guide, you will find a window into the historical and metaphysical context for the series ……続きを見る