Myths in Austrian history : construction and deconstruction / Günter Bischof and Marc Lanry, eds. ; Christian Karner, guest editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bischof, Guenter, 1953- editor.

Landry, Marc, editor.

Karner, Christian, editor.

Series:

Contemporary Austrian studies ; v. 29.

Contemporary Austrian studies ; volume 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Austria--History--Miscellanea.

Austria.

Genre:

History.

Trivia and miscellanea.

Physical Description:

365 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Orleans, LA : University of New Orleans Press ; Innsbruck : Innsbruck University Press, [2020]

Contents:

National Mythologies: Theoretical Reflections, Empirical Applications p. 21 / Christian Karner

Myths in Recent Austrian History: About their Origins, Resilience and Destruction p. 43 / Peter Berger

First Republic

Austria's Main Square and Political Stage: The Heldenplatz in Vienna p. 71 / Peter Stachel

Das jüdische Fabelreich in der Ostmark: "Jewish" Historiography and the Question of Origins in Vienna before the Holocaust p. 89 / Tim Corbett

Dollfuss's Place in the Austrian National Mythscape p. 111 / Lucile Dreidemy

World War II

Hitler as Liberator, Ostmark as Bulwark, and Other Myths of the Anschluss p. 131 / Laura Morowitz

The Victim Myth Revisited: The Politics of History in Austria up until the Waldheim Affair p. 151 / Peter Pirker

Victimization and Gender: The Myth of the Trümmerfrauen and its Present Use(fulness) p. 173 / Maria Pohn-Lauggas

Post-World War II

"Nicht lebensfähig?": Austria's Economic Viability after the Two World Wars p. 193 / Günter Bischof and Peter Berger

Austria, Insel der Seligen: Fortunate Isle? p. 211 / Konrad Paul Liessmann

"Land of Mountains...": Austria's Exceptional Environment and Its Myths p. 225 / Georg Rigele

Mitteleuropa-Nostalgia in New Disguises? p. 243 / Christian Hütterer

Non-Topical Essay

The Drimmel Effect: The Anti-State Performance of Heinrich Drimmel p. 263 / Michael Bum

Forum: South Tyrol in the Twentieth Century

Introduction p. 281 / Günter Bischof

A Border within the Borderland: Assimilation through Separation in Fascist Italy's South Tyrol p. 285 / Eden K. McLean

The South Tyrol Option and the Borderlines of National Historiographies p. 297 / Roberta Pergher

Borderline: South Tyrol and its Nazi Past between Politics and Historiography p. 307 / Gerald J. Steinacher

Review Essay

(Vienna University of Economics and Business): Janek Wasserman, The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019) p. 321 / Hansjörg Klausinger

Moritz Csáky, Dos Gedächntis Zentraleuropas: Kulturelle und literarische Projektionen auf eine Region (Vienna: Böhlau, 2019) p. 337 / William M. Johnston, (Melbourne, Australia):

Günter Bischof/Hannes Richter, Towards the American Century: Austrians in the United States (New Orleans: UNO Press, 2019) p. 342 / Emil Brix (Vienna):

Ernst Hanisch, Landschaft und Identität: Versuch einer österreichischen Erfahrungsgeschichte (Vienna: Böhlau, 2019) p. 344 / Marc Landry, (University Of New Orleans):

Jacqueline Vansant, Austria Made in Hollywood (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2019) p. 347 / Felix Tweraser (West Georgia University):

Ina Markova, Die NS-Zeit im Bildgedächtnis der Zweiten Republik, Der Nationalsozialismus und seine Folgen 6 (Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 2018) p. 350 / Hans Petschar, (Austrian National Library):

Martin Haidinger, Wilhelm Höttl: Spion für Hitler und die USA (Vienna: Ueberreuter, 2019) p. 354 / Norman J.W. Goda, (University of Florida):

Peter Pirker, Codename Brooklyn: Jüdische Agenten im Feindesland. Die Operation Greenup 1945. Mit einem Fotoessay von Markus Jenewein (Innsbruck: Tyrolia, 2019) p. 358 / Rob Citino, (New Orleans):

Veronika Duma, Rosa Jochmann: Politische Akteurin und Zeitzeugin (Vienna: Verlag dDes Österreichischen Gewerkschaftsbundes, 2019) p. 361 / Jason Dawsey (New Orleans):.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781608011889

1608011887

9783991060208

3991060205

OCLC:

1140720593