Beyond nationalism : a social and political history of the Habsburg officer corps, 1848-1918 / István Deák.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deák, István, 1926-2023, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Heer--Officers--History.

Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

Sociology, Military--Hungary.

Sociology, Military.

Sociology, Military--Austria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume examines the role of the Habsburg Officer Corps in holding together the multi-ethnic Austro-Hungarian empire from the mid-19th century to its end in 1918.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. From the Turkish Wars to the Revolutions of 1848: An Early History; 2. Absolutism, Liberal Reform, and the Ideology of Preventive War: The Army Between 1850 and 1914; 3. The Making of Future Officers; 4. Life in the Regiment; 5. From Payday to Payday; 6. Latter-Day Knights; 7. Marriage, Family, Sexual Ethics, and Crime; 8. Pensioners, Widows, and Orphans; 9. Nobles and Near-Nobles in the Officer Corps; 10. Religion, Nationality, Advanced Training, and Career; 11. The Officers in the Great War

Epilogue Habsburg Officers in the Successor States and in the Second World War; Appendix I: On Belles-Lettres, Memoirs, and Histories; Appendix II: Place Names; Notes; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-259) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771174-X

0-19-992328-0

1-280-52336-0

9786610523368

0-19-802142-9

1-4294-0142-7

OCLC:

476006422