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Author: Frauke Matthes
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2021-04-15
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1640140840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the heightened role of politics in contemporary German and Austrian cultural productions and institutions and what it means for German Studies.
Author: Steven Beller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521478861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor 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.
Author: United States. Office of the High Commissioner for Austria
Publisher:
Published: 1953
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hillary Hope Herzog
Publisher: Austrian and Habsburg Studies
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781782380498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssessing 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: Günter Bischof
Publisher: University of New Orleans Press
Published: 2021-06-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781608011742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this volume are dedicated to the ups and downs of 100 years of Austrian democracy. On the occasion of the founding of the First Austrian Republic on November 12, 1918, Austrians celebrated the 100th anniversary of this event in recent Austrian history. Due to the deep divisions of the Austrian political camps (parties) democratic governance was troubled in the 1920s and ended in authoritarian rule in 1933. After World War II, the two principal political parties ÖVP (Christian conservatives) and SPÖ (Socialists), learned to work with one another in grand coalition governments and established a stable democratic regime. With the "Freedom Party" (FPÖ) turning populist, xenophobic and anti-European Union, paired with the arrival of new parties such as the environmentalist/progressive "Greens," the Austrian party system realigned in 1986 and new center-right coalitions (ÖVP and FPÖ) came to govern Austria. Today political campaigns in Austria, too, are run on social media and millennials have less faith in democracy.
Author: Oliver Rathkolb
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781845457921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAustria, a small-state society with barely eight million inhabitants differs from the rest of Europe in that it displays various paradoxical developments in its political culture, social life, and economy. First, most Austrians are the descendents of immigrants from all parts of the Habsburg Monarchy due to intensive migration occurring before 1913. Yet contemporary election campaigns and domestic and international politics have been dominated by xenophobic anti-migration slogans, especially since 1989. Without migration, the country's population would be in serious decline. Second, the Austrians have profited enormously from EU membership and EU enlargement but are stubbornly opposed to EU institutions, and there is little evidence of any EU hyphenated identities. Last, attitudes to historical events are equally contradictory: even though up to 600,000 Austrians were members of the Nazi Party, often holding prominent positions (Adolf Hitler himself), the German Reich has been regarded as solely responsible for the Holocaust. These and a number of other paradoxical perceptions are explored and interpreted in this fascinating and wide-ranging work by one of Austria's leading historians.
Author: United States. Congress Senate
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 2866
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