Embers of Empire: Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918. Edited by Paul Miller and Claire Morelon. Afterword by Pieter Judson

Objavljen je zbornik radova o kontinuitetima i diskontinuitetima koji obilježavaju tranziciju iz Habsburškog Carstva u njezine države nasljednice u kojoj o Hrvatskoj piše John Paul Newman.

 

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Embers of Empire

 

Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918

 

Edited by Paul Miller and Claire Morelon

Afterword by Pieter Judson

 

366 pages, 14 illus., bibliog., index

 

ISBN 978-1-78920-022-5 $130.00/£92.00 Hb Published (November 2018)

 

Reviews

“Embers of Empire is a highly impressive, thoroughly researched, and very well-written collection that draws on sources from multiple archives across all of the languages of the successor states. It will be of great interest to historians of Europe and Habsburg scholars, as well as specialists focusing on Eastern Europe and the Balkans.” • Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans

“The brilliant and well-informed essays in this collection insightfully deal with continuities between the late Habsburg and post-Habsburg eras. It exemplifies the recent stream of scholarship that has significantly revised the history of the Habsburg Empire and its legacies.” • Rudolf Kučera, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences

 

Description

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 histories that take 1918 as a strict line of demarcation, this collection focuses on the complexities that attended the transition from the Habsburg Empire to its successor states. In so doing, it produces new and more nuanced insights into the persistence and effectiveness of imperial institutions, as well as the sources of instability in the newly formed nation-states.

 

Paul Miller is Associate Professor of History at McDaniel College in Maryland, USA. His current research concerns the history and memory of the Sarajevo assassination.

Claire Morelon is ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Padova. She holds a dual doctorate in Modern European History from the University of Birmingham and the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris, and was a Junior Research Fellow at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford.

 

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Claire Morelon

PART I: PERMANENCE AND REVOLUTION: NATIONAL POLITICS IN THE TRANSITION TO THE SUCCESSOR STATES

Chapter 1. Negotiating Post-Imperial Transitions: Local Societies and Nationalizing States in East Central Europe
Gábor Egry

Chapter 2. State Legitimacy and Continuity between the Habsburg Empire and Czechoslovakia: The 1918 Transition in Prague
Claire Morelon

Chapter 3. Strangers among Friends: Leon Biliński between Imperial Austria and New Poland
Iryna Vushko

Chapter 4. Ideology on Display: Continuity and Rupture at Exhibitions in Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia, 1873–1928
Marta Filipová

PART II: THE HABSBURG ARMY’S FINAL BATTLES

Chapter 5. Reflections on the Legacy of the Imperial and Royal Army in the Successor States
Richard Bassett

Chapter 6. Imperial into National Officers: K.(u.) K. Officers of Romanian Nationality Before and after the Great War
Irina Marin

Chapter 7. Shades of Empire: Austro-Hungarian Officers, Frankists, and the Afterlives of Austria-Hungary in Croatia, 1918–1929
John Paul Newman

PART III: CHURCH, DYNASTY, ARISTOCRACY: THE POST-WAR FATE OF IMPERIAL PILLARS

Chapter 8. “All the German Princes Driven Out!”: The Catholic Church in Vienna and the First Austrian Republic
Michael Carter-Sinclair

Chapter 9. Wealthy Landowners or Weak Remnants of the Imperial Past?: Central European Nobles during and after the First World War
Konstantinos Raptis

Chapter 10. Sinner, Saint―or Cipher?: The Austrian Republic and the Death of Emperor Karl I
Christopher Brennan

PART IV: HISTORY, MEMORY, MENTALITÉ: PROCESSING THE EMPIRE’S PASSING

Chapter 11. “What Did They Die For?”: War Remembrance in Austria in the Transition from Empire to Nation State
Christoph Mick

Chapter 12. “The First Victim of the First World War”: Franz Ferdinand in Austrian Memory
Paul Miller

Afterword
Pieter M. Judson

Index

 

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