Kategoria BISAC: History >> Europe - Austria & Hungary

The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a quasi-colonial arrangement that inevitably shaped the cultural and intellectual life of the Habsburg Empire. This was particularly evident in the era's colonial utopian writing, and Tropics of Vienna blends literary criticism, cultural theory, and historical analysis to illuminate this curious genre. By analyzing the works of...

Eugenio principe di Savoia-Carignano, conte di Soissons. Generale a soli 24 anni, Feldmaresciallo a 27, Eugenio E stato il piU grande comandante della storia dell'esercito di Casa d'Austria e dalle cancellerie europee, per l'abilitA dimostrata anche in diplomazia, fu considerato 'l'imperatore segreto'. Dopo il rifiuto da parte di Luigi XIV al suo ingresso nell'esercito, il principe fuggI in Austria e in quel paese iniziO la sua sfolgorante carriera, culminata con l'ascesa ai vertici della macchina militare asburgica, condotta nella duplice veste di combattente e instancabile riformatore....

Eugenio principe di Savoia-Carignano, conte di Soissons. Generale a soli 24 anni, Feldmaresciallo a 27, Eugenio E stato il piU grande comandante della storia dell'esercito di Casa d'Austria e dalle cancellerie europee, per l'abilitA dimostrata anche in diplomazia, fu considerato 'l'imperatore segreto'. Dopo il rifiuto da parte di Luigi XIV al suo ingresso nell'esercito, il principe fuggI in Austria e in quel paese iniziO la sua sfolgorante carriera, culminata con l'ascesa ai vertici della macchina militare asburgica, condotta nella duplice veste di combattente e instancabile riformatore....

For the Central Powers the war now became a siege on a monstrous scale. Britain's...

Spurred by ideals of individual liberty that took hold in the Western world in the late nineteenth century, psychiatrists and public officials sought to reinvent asylums as large-scale, totally designed institutions that offered a level of freedom and normality impossible in the outside world. This volume explores the "caged freedom" that this new psychiatric ethos represented by analyzing seven such buildings established in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy between the late 1890s and World War I.

In the last two decades of the Habsburg Empire, architects of asylums began to abandon...

Sissi's World offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It investigates the myths, legends, and representations across literature, art, film, and other media of one of the most popular, revered and misunderstood female figures in European cultural history.

Sissi's World explores the cultural foundations for the endurance of the Sissi legends and the continuing fascination with the beautiful empress: a Bavarian duchess born in 1837, the longest-serving Austrian empress, and the queen of Hungary who died in 1898 at the...

Through a study of a variety of Ottoman and modern Turkish accounts of the Ottoman-Habsburg sieges of Nagykanizsa Castle (1600-01) including official documents, correspondence, histories, and more literary genres such as gazavatnames campaign narratives], Plural Pasts explores Ottoman literacy practices. By considering the diverse roles that the various accounts served construction of identities, forging of diplomatic alliances and legitimization of political ideologies and geo-political imaginations it explores the cultural and socio-political significance the various...