Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-04219-2 (ISBN)
Maureen Healy examines the collapse of the Habsburg Empire from the perspective of everyday life in the capital city. She argues that a striking feature of 'total war' on the home front was the spread of a war mentality to the mundane sites of everyday life - streets, shops, schools, entertainment venues and apartment buildings. While Habsburg armies waged military campaigns on distant fronts, Viennese civilians (women, children, and men 'left at home') waged a protracted, socially devastating war against one another. Vienna's multi-ethnic population lived together in conditions of severe material shortage and faced near-starvation by 1917. The city fell into civilian mutiny before the state collapsed in 1918. Based on meticulous archival research, including citizens' letters to state authorities, the study offers a penetrating look at Habsburg citizenship by showing how ordinary women, men and children conceived of 'Austria' in the Empire's final years.
MAUREEN HEALY is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Oregon State University. She was the winner of the Fraenkel Prize from the Wiener Library and Institute of Contemporary History, London, 2000.
List of plates; List of maps, figures and tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Politics and Representation: 1. Food and the politics of sacrifice; 2. Entertainment, propaganda and the Vienna War Exhibition of 1916–17; 3. Censorship, rumours and denunciation: the crisis of truth on the home front; Part II. State and Family: 4. Sisterhood and citizenship: 'Austria's women' in wartime Vienna; 5. Mobilizing Austria's children for total war; 6. The 'fatherless society': home-front men and imperial paternalism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.9.2007 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare |
| Zusatzinfo | 5 Tables, unspecified; 20 Halftones, unspecified |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 154 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 532 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-521-04219-4 / 0521042194 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-04219-2 / 9780521042192 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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