Embers of Empire

Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918

Paul Miller, Claire Morelon (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

366 Seiten

2018
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-022-5 (ISBN)

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The end of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy radically reshaped the political structures and national identity of East-Central Europe. Embers of Empire focuses on this complex and disruptive transition and sheds new light on the efficacity of imperial institutions.

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 teaches history at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland) and at McDaniel College in the U.S. His forthcoming book, Misfire: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I, will be published by Oxford University Press in February 2022.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	04.01.2019
Reihe/Serie	Austrian and Habsburg Studies
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
ISBN-10	1-78920-022-9 / 1789200229
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-022-5 / 9781789200225
Zustand	Neuware