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Author : Gene Callahan
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN 13 : 1610164679
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Economics for Real People written by Gene Callahan and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 2002 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gitta Honegger
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300129656
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Thomas Bernhard written by Gitta Honegger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989), a literary figure of international acclaim and arguably Austria's greatest post-World War II writer, became the first of his generation to expose unrelentingly his country's pathological denial of complicity in the Holocaust. Bernhard's writings and indeed his own biography reflect Austria's fraught efforts to define itself as a nation following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy and the trauma of World War II. Repeatedly he scandalized the nation with novels, plays, and public statements that exposed the convoluted ways Austrians were attempting to come to terms with their Nazi past--or defiantly avoiding doing so. This book, the first comprehensive biography of Thomas Bernhard in English, examines his life and work and their intricate relationship to Austria's geographical, political, and cultural transformations in the twentieth century. While Bernhard was the scourge of his native culture, Honegger explains, he was also a product of that same culture. Appreciation of his controversial impact on his society is possible only through an understanding of the contradictions, the shame, and the achievements that mark Austrians' self-perception in the postwar years. Honegger shows that for Bernhard the theater was not only a profession but also a paradigm for his life, and that performance was the primary force animating his writing and self-construction. Even after his death, Bernhard's carefully constructed biography continues to fascinate, shock, and expose the Austrian culture at large.
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Publisher : London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Austria and the Austrian People ... written by and published by London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, Limited. This book was released on 1914 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hillary Hope Herzog
Publisher : Austrian and Habsburg Studies
ISBN 13 : 9781782380498
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (84 download)
Download or read book "Vienna is Different" written by Hillary Hope Herzog and published by Austrian and Habsburg Studies. This book was released on 2013 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in the Austrian Empire and later the Austrian nation, assumed a special significance in the imaginations of Jewish writers as a space and an idea. The author focuses on the special relationship between Austrian-Jewish writers and the city to reveal a century-long pattern of living in tension with the city, experiencing simultaneously acceptance and exclusion, feeling "unheimlich heimisch" (eerily at home) in Vienna.
Author : Marija Wakounig
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 364390410X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Transgressing Boundaries written by Marija Wakounig and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s, the Centers for Austrian Studies, which were founded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research, have played an important role for the Austrian and international scientific community. Their tasks are to promote studies on Austria and Central Europe through their host nations, as well as to give Austrian students the possibility to conduct research abroad and to get in touch with the local scientific community. This volume contains reports on the activities of these institutions in the academic year 2012/2013, as well as working papers of some their most promising PhD students. Their research presented in the book covers various aspects of Central European history in modern times, ranging from the 17th century to the present. (Series: Europa Orientalis - Vol. 14)
Author : James Bogle
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780852441732
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (417 download)
Download or read book A Heart for Europe written by James Bogle and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chip Wagar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761870784
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Double Emperor written by Chip Wagar and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For forty-three years, Francis I of Austria ruled a vast heterogenous Empire that came to dominate the continent of Europe. Ascending Charlemagne’s thousand-year throne of the Holy Roman Empire at the age of twenty-four on the unexpected death of his father, this scion of the ancient Habsburg dynasty became the first Emperor of Austria and for two years, the only Double Emperor in history. Both the father in law of Napoleon Bonaparte and his chief rival for dominance of the continent of Europe, Francis eventually led a coalition of nations to Paris in 1814 and sent Napoleon into exile. The exiled Napoleon’s only son and heir lived with his grandfather thereafter in Vienna until his tragic early death. Kings, ministers, generals and the glitterati of Europe gathered under his watchful eye at the Congress of Vienna to decide the fate of a continent in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars in which he played a pivotal role. The Congress saw the emergence of his new Austrian Empire as the most dominant power in continental Europe until long after his death twenty years later. A devoted husband, father and grandfather, his modest lifestyle and simple tastes that set the tone of the Biedermeier era concealed a complex and calculating ruler whose initial, cautious liberalism gradually evolved into a stoic conservatism. No other life-biography in English has been written about this mysterious but powerful figure of early 19th century Europe whom Metternich and Radetzky called their master.
Author : Carl E. Schorske
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307814513
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Fin-De-Siecle Vienna written by Carl E. Schorske and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. "Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsmen. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete." -- David A. Hollinger, History Book Club Review "Each of [the seven separate studies] can be read separately....Yet they are so artfully designed and integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the book's wholeness and the momentum of its argument." -- Gordon A. Craig, The New Republic "A profound work...on one of the most important chapters of modern intellectual history" -- H.R. Trevor-Roper, front page, The New York Times Book Review "Invaluable to the social and political historian...as well as to those more concerned with the arts" -- John Willett, The New York Review of Books "A work of original synthesis and scholarship. Engrossing." -- Newsweek
Author : Günter Bischof
Publisher : StudienVerlag
ISBN 13 : 3706557274
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Relationships/Beziehungsgeschichten. Austria and the United States in the Twentieth Century written by Günter Bischof and published by StudienVerlag. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the breakup of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian-American relationship was characterized by a dwarf confronting a giant. America continued to be a heaven for a better life for many Austrian emigrants. For the growing American preponderant position in the world after World War I, the small Austrian Republic was insignificant. And yet there were times when Austria mattered geopolitically. During the post-World War II occupation of Austria, the U.S. helped reconstruct Austria economically and was the biggest champion of its independence. During the Cold War, the U.S. frequently used Austria as a mediator site of summit meetings. American mass production models, consumerism, and popular culture were adopted by Austrian youth. Americanization and American preponderance also produced anti-Americanism. With the end of the Cold War and Austria's accession to the European Union it once again lost significance for Washington's geopolitics.
Author : Sonam Kachru
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231553382
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Other Lives written by Sonam Kachru and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human experience is not confined to waking life. Do experiences in dreams matter? Humans are not the only living beings who have experiences. Does nonhuman experience matter? The Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu, writing during the late fourth and early fifth centuries C.E., argues in his work The Twenty Verses that these alternative contexts ought to inform our understanding of mind and world. Vasubandhu invites readers to explore experiences in dreams and to inhabit the experiences of nonhuman beings—animals, hungry ghosts, and beings in hell. Other Lives offers a deep engagement with Vasubandhu’s account of mind in a global philosophical perspective. Sonam Kachru takes up Vasubandhu’s challenge to think with perspective-diversifying contexts, showing how his novel theory draws together action and perception, minds and worlds. Kachru pieces together the conceptual system in which Vasubandhu thought to show the deep originality of the argument. He reconstructs Vasubandhu’s ecological concept of mind, in which mindedness is meaningful only in a nexus with life and world, to explore its ongoing philosophical significance. Engaging with a vast range of classical, modern, and contemporary Asian and Western thought, Other Lives is both a groundbreaking work in Buddhist studies and a model of truly global philosophy. The book also includes an accessible new translation of The Twenty Verses, providing a fresh introduction to one of the most influential works of Buddhist thought.
Author : David F. Good
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571810458
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries written by David F. Good and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the first of its kind in English, brings together scholars from different disciplines who address the history of women in Austria, as well as their place in contemporary Austrian society, from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, thus shedding new light on contemporary Austria and in the context of its rich and complicated history.
Author : Anna Redsand
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618723430
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Viktor Frankl written by Anna Redsand and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the life of Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of "Man's Search for Meaning, " who, after losing his family, used his work to overcome his grief and developed a new form of psychotherapy that encouraged patients to live for the future, not in the past.
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475856261
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe 2020–2022 written by and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Today Series: Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Nordic, Central and Southeastern Europe, past and present. It is organized by individual chapters for each country and presents a complete and authoritative overview of each region’s geography, people, history, political system, constitution, parliament, parties, political leaders, and elections. The combination of factual accuracy and up-to-date detail along with its informed projections make this an outstanding resource for researchers, practitioners in international development, media professionals, government officials, potential investors and students. Now in its 20th edition, the content is thorough yet perfect for a one-semester introductory course or general library reference. Available in both print and e-book formats and priced low to fit student and library budgets.
Author : Franz Szabo
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773584943
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Austrian Immigration to Canada written by Franz Szabo and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of nine essays originated in a symposium on Austrian immigration to Canada held at Carleton University in May 1995. Held in conjunction with the larger Austrian immigration to Canada research project, initiated to mark the Austrian millennium in 1996, the conference brought together European and Canadian scholars from several disciplines. The full range of immigrant and refugee experience in Canada is addressed: culture, politics, demographics, identity, language, memory, hardship and achievement.
Author : Bojka Djukanovic
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538185873
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe 2024–2025 written by Bojka Djukanovic and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-07-08 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Today Series: Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Nordic, Central and Southeastern Europe, past and present. It is organized by individual chapters for each country and presents a complete and authoritative overview of each region’s geography, people, history, political system, constitution, parliament, parties, political leaders, and elections. The combination of factual accuracy and up-to-date detail along with its informed projections make this an outstanding resource for researchers, practitioners in international development, media professionals, government officials, potential investors and students. Now in its 23rd edition, the content is thorough yet perfect for a one-semester introductory course or general library reference. Available in both print and e-book formats and priced low to fit student and library budgets.
Author : Gunter Bischof, Anton Pelinka
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412817691
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity written by Gunter Bischof, Anton Pelinka and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Hapsburg monarchy disintegrated after World War I, Austria was not considered to be a viable entity. In a vacuum of national identity the hapless country drifted toward a larger Germany. After World War II, Austrian elites constructed a new identity based on being a "victim" of Nazi Germany. Cold war Austria, however, envisioned herself as a neutral "island of the blessed" between and separate from both superpower blocs. Now, with her membership in the European Union secured, Austria is reconstructing her painful historical memory and national identity. In 1996 she celebrates her 1000-year anniversary. In this volume of Contemporary Austrian Studies, Franz Mathis and Brigitte Mazohl-Wallnig argue that regional identities in Austria have deeper historical roots than the many artificial and ineffective attempts to construct a national identity. Heidemarie Uhl, Anton Pelinka, and Brigitte Bailer discuss the post-World War II construction of the victim mythology. Robert Herzstein analyses the crucial impact of the 1986 Waldheim election imploding Austria's comforting historical memory as a "nation of victims." Wolfram Kaiser shows Austria's difficult adjustments to the European Union and the larger challenges of constructing a new "European identity." Chad Berry's analysis of American World War II memory establishes a useful counterpoint to construction of historical memory in a different national context. A special forum on Austrian intelligence studies presents a fascinating reconstruction by Timothy Naftali of the investigation by Anglo-American counterintelligence into the retreat of Hitler's troops into the Alps during World War II. Rudiger Overmans' "research note" presents statistics on lower death rates of Austrian soldiers in the German army. Review essays by Gunther Kronenbitter and Gunter Bischof, book reviews, and a 1995 survey of Austrian politics round out the volume. Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity will be of intense interest to foreign policy analysts, historians, and scholars concerned with the unique elements of identity and nationality in Central European politics.
Author : Melissa Muller
Publisher : Vendome Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865652637
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (526 download)
Download or read book Lost Lives, Lost Art written by Melissa Muller and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary names include Rothschild, Mendelssohn, Bloch-Bauer--distinguished bankers, industrialists, diplomats, and art collectors. Their diverse taste ranged from manuscripts and musical instruments to paintings by Old Masters and the avant-garde. But their stigma as Jews in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe doomed them to exile or death in Hitler's concentration camps. Here, after years of meticulous research, Melissa Müller (Anne Frank: The Biography) and Monika Tatzkow (Nazi Looted Art) present the tragic, compelling stories of 15 Jewish collectors, the dispersal of their extraordinary collections through forced sale and/or confiscation, and the ongoing efforts of their heirs to recover their inheritance. For every victory in the effort to return these works to their rightful heirs, there are daunting defeats and long court battles. This real-life legal thriller follows works by Rembrandt, Klimt, Pissarro, Kandinsky, and others. Praise for Lost Lives, Lost Art: "A heartbreaking and enthralling story of the brutal and mindless Nazi destruction of a singularly cultivated caste of rich German and Austrian Jews and the pillage of their great art collections: a world that was lost and could never be recreated." ~ Louis Begley "Each chapter focuses on a single collector. . . the adulatory profiles [are] matched with an attractive layout and an abundance of well-selected images." ~ Wall Street Journal "The book is meticulously researched, brilliantly and dispassionately written, and is in all likelihood a game changer in the world of art, art provenance, and art restitution that will resound for years to come."~ ForeWord Reviews "Richly illustrated with excellent art reproductions and family photographs, this is a solid addition to works on Nazi art plundering and the world of art restitution, ownership, and property rights. This will be of great interest to readers wanting to know more about upper-class Austrian and German Jews. Recommended." ~ Library Journal
