The Habsburg Legacy
National Identity in Historical Perspective

Edited by Edward Timms and Ritchie Robertson

Austrian Studies 5

Edinburgh University Press

1 December 1994  •  258pp

ISBN: 978-0-748604-87-6 (hardback) (out of print)

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This work argues that to understand current events in Europe, we need to look into the past at the construction and collapse of the multi-national Habsburg Empire. It examines the early 19th-century development of the Austrian Empire from the the Holy Roman Empire, which led to the growth of distinct regional identities in Hungary, Galicia, Trieste and Croatia. The book gives the historical background to nationalism in Central Europe today, describing official attempts to define "ethnic identity", the harm which resulted, the new Austrian identity under the semi-fascist rule of the 1930s and the early years of the post-war Second Republic. Contrasting the gradual integration of nations in contemporary Western Europe with the dissolution of multi-national states in the east, this is a re-appraisal of a fallen Empire. This work is part of the "Austrian Studies" series, an annual volume reflecting the growing interest in the distinctive cultural traditions of the Habsburg Empire and the Austrian Republic. The focus is on Austrian culture from 1750 to the present and the series treats literature in relation to psychology, philosophy, political theory, music, theatre and the visual arts.

Contents:

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Austria, 'Germany', and the Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
Joachim Whaley

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13

Language, the Constitution, and the Past in Hungarian Nationalism
Laszlo Peter

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27

Austrian Identity in Hungarian Perspective: The Nineteenth Century
R. J. W. Evans

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37

Galicia and Problems of National Identity
Iaroslav Isaievych

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46

Austria and the South Slavs 46
Robin Okey

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58

The 'Cultural Soul' and the 'Merchant Soul': Trieste between Italian and Austrian Identity8
Angelo Ara

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67

Ethnic Attribution in Late Imperial Austria: Good Intentions, Evil Consequences
Gerald Stourzh

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84

'Auf Fluch und Luge baut sich kein Glück auf‘: Karl Emil Franzos's Novel Judith Trachtenberg and the Question of Jewish Assimilation
Florian Krobb

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94

Roman Catholicism and Austrian Identity in Two Women Writers
Eda Sagarra

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107

Alois Riegl: The Late Roman Empire in the Late Habsburg Empire
Margaret Olin

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121

Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea of Central Europe
Jacques Le Rider

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136

The Writer and Austrian Culture: Robert Musil and Heimito von Doderer
David S. Luft

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144

The Dilemma of Identity: The Impact of the First World War on Habsburg Jewry
Marsha L. Rozenblit

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158

Citizenship and 'Heimatrecht' after the Treaty of Saint-Germain
Edward Timms

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169

Austrian Identity and the 'Standestaat'
Anton Pelinka

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178

Education and National Identity in Austria after the Second World War
Robert Knight

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196

The Rhetoric of the Nation-State and the Fall of Empires
Peter Alter

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208

Review of Michael John and Albert Lichtblau (eds), Schmelztiegel Wien -Einst und jetzt
Steven Beller

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208

Review of Ernst Bruckmuller et al. (eds), Bürgertum in der Habsburgermonarchie
Steven Beller

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210

Review of Robert D. Billinger Jr, Metternich and the German Question
P. G. M. Dickson

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211

Review of Bruck Alan Brown, Gluck and the French Theatre in Vienna
Peter Branscombe

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214

Review of Charles Ford, Cosi? Sexual Politics in Mozart's Operas
John Milfull

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215

Review of Fanz Baumer, Adalbert Stifter
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

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215

Review of Brigid Haines, Dialogue and Narrative Design in the Works of Adalbert Stifter
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

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215

Review of Alfred Doppler, Geschichte im Spiegel der Literatur
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

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217

Review of Arthur Schnitzler, Richard Beer-Hofmann, ed. Konstanze Fliedl, Briefmechsel 1891-1931
W. E. Yates

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218

Review of Eric Williams (ed.), The Dark Flutes of Fall: Critical Essays on Georg Trakl
Andrew Webber

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220

Review of Mark Anderson, Kafka's Clothes
Elizabeth Boa

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220

Review of Pavel Petr, Kafkas Spiele
Elizabeth Boa

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223

Review of Hans-Harald Müller, Leo Perutz
Florian Krobb

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223

Review of Michael Mandelartz, Poetik und Historik. Christliche und jüdische Geschichtstheologie in den historischen Romanen von Leo Perutz
Florian Krobb

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225

Review of Harriet Anderson, Utopian Feminism: Women's Movements in fin-de-siecle Vienna
Allyson Fiddler

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227

Review of Klaus Amann and Hubert Lengauer (eds), Österreich und der Große Krieg 1914-1918: Die andere Seite der Geschichte
Leo A. Lensing

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231

Review of Helmut Gruber, Red Vienna: Experiment in Working-Class Culture, 1919-1934
David Midgley

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232

Review of David Darby, Structures of Disintegration: Narrative Strategies in Elias Canetti's 'Die Blendung'
Harriet Murphy

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233

Review of Peter Heller, Anna Freud's Letters to Eva Rosenfeld
Naomi Segal

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234

Review of Bruce F. Pauley, From Prejudice to Persecution: The History of Austrian Anti-Semitism
Peter Pulzer

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234

Review of Richard Mitten, The Politics of Antisemitic Prejudice: The Waldheim Phenomenon in Austria
Peter Pulzer

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237

Obituary: The Humming Translator: A Tribute to Ralph Manheim
Peter Handke

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Bibliography entry:

Timms, Edward, and Ritchie Robertson (eds), The Habsburg Legacy: National Identity in Historical Perspective (= Austrian Studies, 5 (1994))

First footnote reference: 35 The Habsburg Legacy: National Identity in Historical Perspective, ed. by Edward Timms and Ritchie Robertson (= Austrian Studies, 5 (1994)), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Timms and Robertson, p. 47.

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Bibliography entry:

Timms, Edward, and Ritchie Robertson (eds). 1994. The Habsburg Legacy: National Identity in Historical Perspective (= Austrian Studies, 5)

Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Timms and Robertson 1994: 21).

Example footnote reference: 35 Timms and Robertson 1994: 21.

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