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Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War
Mark Cornwall (Ed.)
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Description for Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War
Hardback. When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, six "successor states" tried to make sense of the last Habsburg war while preparing for life in a new Europe. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotten across all the ex-Habsburg territories. Editor(s): Cornwall, Mark; Newman, John Paul. Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DVH; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotten across all the ex-Habsburg territories. Each of the book's twelve chapters focuses on a separate region, studying how the transition to peacetime was managed either by the state, by war veterans, or by national minorities. This splintered war memory, where some posed as victors and some as ... Read more
When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotten across all the ex-Habsburg territories. Each of the book's twelve chapters focuses on a separate region, studying how the transition to peacetime was managed either by the state, by war veterans, or by national minorities. This splintered war memory, where some posed as victors and some as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Austrian and Habsburg Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782388487
SKU
V9781782388487
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About Mark Cornwall (Ed.)
Mark Cornwall is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southampton. He is author of The Undermining of Austria-Hungary. The Battle for Hearts and Minds (2000) and The Devil's Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha (2012).John Paul Newman is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century European History at Maynooth University. He is author of Yugoslavia in the Shadow of ... Read more
Reviews for Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War
... a crucial addition to the growing field of post-Habsburg studies...While other scholars and politicians shaped the broad memory of the Habsburg Empire, the veterans, commemorative committees, and memorial organizations in Sacrifice and Rebirth defined the fresher and deeper wounds of war. This book is highly recommended. Journal of Austrian Studies