The Limits of Loyalty: Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
Edited by Laurence Cole and Daniel L. Unowsky
Volume 9, Austrian and Habsburg Studies. 256 pages.
The overwhelming majority of historical work on the late Habsburg Monarchy has focused primarily on national movements and ethnic conflicts, with the result that too little attention has been devoted to the state and ruling dynasty. This volume is the first of its kind to concentrate on attempts by the imperial government to generate a dynastic-oriented state patriotism in the multinational Habsburg Monarchy. It examines those forces in state and society which tended toward the promotion of state unity and loyalty towards the ruling house. These essays, all original contributions and written by an international group of historians, provide a critical examination of the phenomenon of “dynastic patriotism” and offer a richly nuanced treatment of the multinational empire in its final phase.
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Austrian History Yearbook, Vol. XXXVIII (2007)
The Austrian History Yearbook remains the only English-language journal devoted to the history of the territories in Central Europe that were formerly under Habsburg rule and now comprise the modern states of Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and parts of Italy, Poland, Ukraine, Romania and Serbia.
The thirty-eighth volume of the AHY is the first volume of the Yearbook produced under the aegis of Pieter Judson as editor and Daniel Unowsky as book review editor. The articles offer new insights on issues that scholars have long recognized as important in the history of Austria and Central Europe.
This volume of the AHY features an expanded version of Herwig Wolfram’s Kann Memorial Lecture, “Austria before Austria: the Medieval Past of Polities to Come”; a forum on “Writing the History of Sexuality in Fin-de-Siècle Cisleithania” that presents provocative examples of the current research in this field; plus seven other articles and 37 book reviews.
AHY Vol. XXXVIII table of contents (PDF).
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Working Papers in Austrian Studies
The CAS Working Papers in Austrian Studies seeks to stimulate discussion in the field and to provide a vehicle for circulating work in progress. Recently published papers:
- 07-2. David Gallagher, "Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the transformation of metamorphosis in Christoph Ransmayr’s novel Die letzte Welt"
- 07-1. David S. Luft, "Das Intellektuelle Leben Österreichs in seiner Beziehung zur deutschen Sprache und der Modernen Kultur" (PDF).
- 06-2. John Murray and Lars Nilsson, "Risk Compensation for Workers in Late Imperial Austria" (PDF).