The Paradoxical Republic

Austria 1945-2005

Oliver Rathkolb (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

316 Seiten

2010
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-84545-639-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Austria, a small-state society with barely eight million inhabitants differs from the rest of Europe in that it displays various paradoxical developments in its political culture, social life, and economy. First, most Austrians are the descendents of immigrants from all parts of the Habsburg Monarchy due to intensive migration occurring before 1913. Yet contemporary election campaigns and domestic and international politics have been dominated by xenophobic anti-migration slogans, especially since 1989. Without migration, the country’s population would be in serious decline. Second, the Austrians have profited enormously from EU membership and EU enlargement but are stubbornly opposed to EU institutions, and there is little evidence of any EU hyphenated identities. Last, attitudes to historical events are equally contradictory: even though up to 600,000 Austrians were members of the Nazi Party, often holding prominent positions (Adolf Hitler himself), the German Reich has been regarded as solely responsible for the Holocaust. These and a number of other paradoxical perceptions are explored and interpreted in this fascinating and wide-ranging work by one of Austria’s leading historians.

Autor

Oliver Rathkolb is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. He was Schumpeter Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and is member of the Academic Committee for the forthcoming House of European History, European Parliament. He has published widely on Austrian and European contemporary political and cultural history, international affairs and business history. He was founding co-editor of the quarterly Medien und Zeit (Media and Time) and is currently editor of the journal Zeitgeschichte (Contemporary History).

Inhalt

Acknowledgements



Introduction



Chapter 1. Austrian Identity between national pride, solipsism and European patriotism

Chapter 2. Peculiarities of Austrian Democracy

Chapter 3. “Austria can beat everything, if only she wants to”: Myth and reality of Austrian economic policy since 1945

Chapter 4. Ten Chancellors, and not one a woman

Chapter 5. The newspaper tycoons of the Second Republic

Chapter 6. Neutrality and the State Treaty in a new Europe

Chapter 7. “Alles Walzer…”: the politics of art and culture as the early Second Republic’s elixir of life

Chapter 8. The Austrian model of the welfare state and inter-generational and inter-gender contracts since 1945

Chapter 9. Shadow of the Past

Chapter 10. Austria’s political future: some trends



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Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 621 g
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-84545-639-4 / 1845456394
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84545-639-9 / 9781845456399
• Zustand: Neuware