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Book Synopsis The Real History of Austria by : Peter Bubendorfer
Download or read book The Real History of Austria written by Peter Bubendorfer and published by Peter Bubendorfer. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day when I was about 15 as I sat in my high school history class someone asked the teacher what the difference was between an Austrian and a German. “Nothing!” he snapped, “Austrians are just Germans. It’s the same thing.” I was aghast. I felt my whole world shift. How could anyone think an Austrian was a German? They were completely different, everyone knew that. Years later, after I had spent some time in Austria and got to know my family, I began to read academic books written in English about Austrian history and was astonished at how completely at variance they were with my own family’s experiences. All the books were written from an American or English academic perspective, many with a faint but perceptible undercurrent of hostility. I felt a lot of it to be factually wrong and misleading, and in some cases found the proof that that was so. I decided I had to tell Austria’s story as I saw it so I went back to original sources and started from scratch. And here it is.
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Austria by : Paula Sutter Fichtner
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Austria written by Paula Sutter Fichtner and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-06-11 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austrians today often seem to believe that they have two histories. One is their republican present; the other, the centuries that their forebears spent as part of the multi-ethnic Habsburg Empire. Contemporary Austria is a fixture among Europe's democracies. Yet, it did not achieve this state easily: World War I, the unification with Germany in 1938, and World War II were catastrophes for Austria. In 1995, it became part of the European Union, and its government, culture, and egalitarian economy are far cries from the monarchical and highly stratified society of the old Empire. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Austria has been thoroughly updated and greatly expanded. Through its chronology, introductory essay, appendix, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries, greater attention has been given to foreign affairs, economic institutions and policies, social issues, religion, and politics.
Book Synopsis A Concise History of Austria by : Steven Beller
Download or read book A Concise History of Austria written by Steven Beller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a small, prosperous country in the middle of Europe, modern Austria has a very large and complex history, extending far beyond its current borders. In a gripping narrative supported by beautiful illustrations, Steven Beller traces the remarkable career of Austria from German borderland to successful Alpine republic.
Book Synopsis Edelweiss - The Real History of Austria by : Peter Bubendorfer
Download or read book Edelweiss - The Real History of Austria written by Peter Bubendorfer and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-06-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My father left Austria in 1956 determined to get as far away from Europe as possible, which happened to be New Zealand. Unlike most of the other Austrians who soon moved on to Australia, he stayed and married a local girl. Wanting his children to assimilate he refrained from speaking German, but still dressed us in traditional clothes. I was born only 15 years after the end of WW2 when memories were still raw, very raw, and seeing a little boy running around in lederhosen and making gun noises must have alarmed the good people of Dunedin, many of whom would have relatively recently been fighting my relatives. Eventually, I visited my Austrian family and saw something of Austria, and started to take an interest in its history, as I was aware that what was taught in schools and contained in history books written by academics from Oxford and Cambridge was very different to the history that Austrians knew. These books did not do Austria justice at all, and I felt that the country had a story that had not been told in the English-speaking world but needed to be. So, I decided to write my own history, largely bypassing academic literature and going back to the original historic documents, many of which are now available online as digital images. It seemed to me that the accounts of people who were alive to witness and record events were much more important and trustworthy than what a professor thought 200 years later. This meant I had to learn to read and translate old German script, which is not my first language, and is why it took me several years to write this book. I wanted to avoid the usual historians trap of simply reciting dates of battles and lists of Emperors and to try to discover some of the reason behind events. With regard to WW2, which is still a very touchy subject 80 years later, I have tried to be as open and honest about Austria's role as possible. I have also included the odd snippet about my family's involvement where this seemed appropriate. Due to recent events in Ukraine with some complications for Austria I have updated this book to a third edition. One of my occupations is geologist and so I couldn't help writing something about Austria's geological history. If you are not interested in this, and many aren't, you can skip ahead to around page 16. Please visit my author's page on Facebook!
Book Synopsis Austria in the Twentieth Century by : Rolf Steininger
Download or read book Austria in the Twentieth Century written by Rolf Steininger and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteen essays in this volume include works by leading Austrian historians and political scientists. Collectively it serves as a basic introduction to a small but trend-setting European country. It is also a basic up-to-date outline of Austria's political history, shedding light on economic and social trends as well. No European country has experienced more dramatic turning points in its twentieth-century history than Austria. This volume divides the century into three periods. Section I deals with the years 1900-1938. The First Austrian Republic (established in the aftermath of World War I) was one of the succession states that tried to build a nation against the backdrop of political and economic crisis and a simmering civil war. Democracy collapsed in 1933 and an authoritarian regime attempted to prevail against pressures from Nazi Germany and Nazis at home. Section II covers World War II. In 1938, Hitler's "Third Reich" annexed Austria and the population was pulled into the cauldron of World War II fighting and collaborating with the Nazis, and also resisting and fleeing them. Section III concentrates on the Second Republic (1945 to the present). After ten years of four-power Allied occupation, Austria regained her sovereignty with the Austrian State Treaty of 1955. The price paid was neutrality. Unlike the turmoil of the prewar years after 1955, Austria became a "normal" nation with a functioning democracy, one building toward economic prosperity. After the collapse of the "iron curtain" in 1989, Austria turned westward, joining the European Union in 1995. Most recently, with the advent of populist politics, Austria's political system has experienced a sea of change, departing from its political economy of a huge state-owned sector and social partnership. This insightful volume will serve as a textbook in courses on Austrian, German and European history, as well as in comparative European politics.
Book Synopsis Introducing Austria by : Lonnie Johnson
Download or read book Introducing Austria written by Lonnie Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historian Lonnie Johnson provides in compact form a comprehensive overview of Austria's rich past and present. Each chapter and subchapter approaches Austria's diverse, thousand-year-old heritage from a different perspective to illuminate its essential features. In detailing Austria's turbulent history from 1918 to the present, controversial issues are presented objectively and without oversimplification. Overall the book conveys a differentiated picture of the country and its people which gives readers a feeling for the continuity and change of the Austrian idea.
Book Synopsis The History of Austria, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time (Classic Reprint) by : Alfred H. New
Download or read book The History of Austria, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time (Classic Reprint) written by Alfred H. New and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Austria, From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time IN the following pages the author has endeavoured to present to the English reader a connected History of the Austrian dominions. Three great events mark it off into as many distinct periods. In the first, he has rapidly penned the events of its ancient history down to the establishment of the vast empire of Charlemagne; in the second, he has briefly narrated its struggles in the middle ages down to the reign of Maximilian I.; and in the third, he has delineated, with an increasing fulness of detail, the modern History of Austria to the commencement of the present Italian war. His aim has been to compress the whole within the limits of a single volume, Whose price and size shall attract the general reader; and at the same time to detail the events with sufficient minuteness to render its perusal interesting and instructive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Austria in 1848-49 by : William Henry Stiles
Download or read book Austria in 1848-49 written by William Henry Stiles and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tropics of Vienna by : Ulrich E. Bach
Download or read book Tropics of Vienna written by Ulrich E. Bach and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a quasi-colonial arrangement that inevitably shaped the cultural and intellectual life of the Habsburg Empire. This was particularly evident in the era’s colonial utopian writing, and Tropics of Vienna blends literary criticism, cultural theory, and historical analysis to illuminate this curious genre. By analyzing the works of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Theodor Herzl, Joseph Roth, and other representative Austrian writers, it reveals a shared longing for alternative social and spatial configurations beyond the concept of the “nation-state” prevalent at the time.
Book Synopsis A Brief Survey of Austrian History by : Richard Rickett
Download or read book A Brief Survey of Austrian History written by Richard Rickett and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity by : Gunter Bischof
Download or read book Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity written by Gunter Bischof and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 537 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.
Book Synopsis Modern Austria by : Barbara Jelavich
Download or read book Modern Austria written by Barbara Jelavich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-09-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the Austria's recent history written for the general reader and the student.
Book Synopsis History of Austria by : Captivating History
Download or read book History of Austria written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Austrian Empire by : John S. C. Abbott
Download or read book The History of Austrian Empire written by John S. C. Abbott and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Austrian Empire embraces all that is wild and wonderful in history; early struggles for aggrandizement, the fierce strife with the Turks, as wave after wave of Muslim invasion rolled up the Danube, the long conflicts and bloody persecutions of the Reformation, the thirty years' religious war, the intrigues of Popes, the enormous pride, power and encroachments of Louis XIV, the warfare of the Spanish succession and the Polish dismemberment. All these events combine in a sublime tragedy which fiction may in vain attempt to parallel.
Book Synopsis The Real Francis Joseph by : Henri de Weindel
Download or read book The Real Francis Joseph written by Henri de Weindel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Real Francis Joseph: The Private Life of the Emperor of Austria The information which will be found in this book about the romantic adventures - now farcical, sometimes comic, often tragic - oi the Emperor francis-joseph, the Empress Elisabeth, and the Habsburg family, is for the most part unpublished up to now, and unknown, or very little known. It was collected and was communicated to me by a person in Austria particularly well informed about the Court of Vienna. I should have preferred that this person's name appeared on the cover of the book beside my own. That, however, has been strictly forbidden. I can only take the Opportunity here of expressing publicly my in debtedness to my anonymous collaborator. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Austria-Hungary and the War by : Ernest Ludwig
Download or read book Austria-Hungary and the War written by Ernest Ludwig and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Austria-Hungary and the War I recommend to the kind attention of the American public this book, written by the Austro-Hungarian consul in Cleveland, on certain vital phases of the struggle which is convulsing Europe, The reader will find in these chapters a comprehensive presentation of the political forces and historical developments which led to the initial clash of arms. This volume contains authentic information about the Near East, a region so little known in the United States; it offers a graphic description of conditions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the two Austrian provinces coveted by Servia, and throws an illuminating light upon the real, the underlying, causes of the world-conflict. These causes I may be permitted to summarize in concise form. It should be borne clearly in mind at the outset that for more than a century Austria-Hungary and Russia have been keen rivals in the Balkan Peninsula. Owing to its geographical position the Dual Monarchy is the predominant economic factor in Southeastern Europe, and in the course of her commercial expansion has sought, quite naturally, to secure a market for the output of her industries in Servia, Bulgaria and European Turkey. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Austrians by : Gordon Brook-Shepherd
Download or read book The Austrians written by Gordon Brook-Shepherd and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thousand years of European history are passed through the prism of the Austrian experience. The chief factors which have smothered national development throughout - loyalty to a supranational dynasty and confusion over their Germanic roots - are traced right down to modern times.
