Polemical Austria : the rhetorics of national identity : from Empire to Second Republic / Anthony Bushell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bushell, Anthony, 1951-

Contributor:

Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austria--History--20th century.

Austria.

History.

Physical Description:

314 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2013.

Summary:

Austria Today Offers the Picture of a small, neutral and economically successful country in the heart of Europe; yet modern Austria is the product of a complex and violent history. After the First World War, Vienna changed overnight from being the capital of a large and multi-ethnic empire to that of an alpine republic surrounded by larger states. This study examines Austria's transition from the former major power to its latter militarily marginalised status, and asks how often sudden and violent changes - including two world wars and one civil war in the twentieth century - have been reflected in the way Austrians have perceived themselves. While many studies map out the political events, this study places special emphasis on the language used by Austrians as they struggled to define themselves. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Towards a Theory of Austria

1 Felix Austria? 15

2 Locating Austria 26

3 Austria and Concepts of Identity 55

Part 2 Writing Austria

4 Austria's Identity and the Response to Revolution 77

5 Vienna: Print and Pre-eminence 107

Part 3 Austria: Revived, Reviled, Revised

6 Failure at the First Attempt: The First Republic 133

7 Austrian Identity and the Impediments of History 166

8 Voicing Austria in the Second Republic 193

9 Challenging and Confirming Identity in the Second Republic 215.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

9780708326046

0708326048

OCLC:

857960471

Publisher Number:

99954225098