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Austria 1867-1955

Boyer John W.
Innbundet / 2022 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780198221296
Publisert
2022
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
1414 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
50 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
1152

Forfatter
Boyer John W.

Biografisk notat

John W. Boyer is the Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor in History at the University of Chicago and an Editor of the Journal of Modern History. A specialist in Central European history, Boyer has written three books in the field of Austrian political and social history, most recently Karl Lueger (1844-1910): Christlichsoziale Politik als Beruf, published in 2010. In 2015 he published The University of Chicago. A History. Boyer has received the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class, from the Republic of Austria, in recognition of his scholarly work on the Habsburg Empire. He is also a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Since 1992 he has served as Dean of the College at the University of Chicago.

Austria 1867-1955

Boyer John W.
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Boyer John W.
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In his brilliant opus magnum John Boyer shows why Austria needed three attempts to build a stable democracy and how co-operation of formerly antagonistic political elites finally succeeded in the years after World War II.

Michael Mesch, Wiener Geschichtsblätter, Vol. 78/3

This volume offers a very comprehensive analysis of Austrian history. The extensive bibliography and index add to its usefulness for scholars. Given the in-depth coverage, the text will be most useful to those who are already familiar with the basics of Austrian history.

Choice

Austria 1867—1955 constitutes a massive undertaking. The presentation is abundant in detail, which, together with a copious index, also recommends the study as a reference work. Its focus lies on political processes and negotiations. In tune with his distinguished scholarly record, John Boyer has provided a well-informed, detailed, and generally sober analysis of modern Austrian politics. His primary audience is specialists in the field. Even if some readers may have appreciated a stronger emphasison long-term patterns and developments, the detailed mastery of so comprehensive a subject deserves nothing but praise.

Peter Thaler, German Studies Review

Se alle

This Austrian history is recommended to anyone who wants a deeper, more detailed understanding of how it was that an empire was succeeded by a small republic at the center of Europe.

Steven Beller, Journal of Modern History

What is most impressive about this admirable work is the extent of scholarship that went into it. Not only does Boyer cite almost 100 pages of secondary literature; he has looked at thirty-three Nachlasse (personal papers) along with other collections in some twenty archives, not to speak of twelve pages of printed primary records and contemporary sources.

Gunter Bischof, Contemporary Austrian Studies

This book is a magnificent handbook of administrative and political history. It especially complements the more decentered approaches historians have pursued oflate by emphasizing the core and its central administration. Students of Austrian history from undergraduates to professional scholars should onceagain be profoundly grateful to Boyer for his extraordinary contribution to our field.

Pieter M. Judson, Contemporary Austrian Studies

To my mind, the great benefit of uniting the Imperial and Republican histories in one study is apparent only if the historian presents a compelling new interpretation that allows us to see both periods in a new light. This is a great accomplishment of the book. Writing a synthetic history, Boyer does not offer an easily portable "new take" on modern Austria, and he pragmatically sidesteps the "national indifference" discourse that has shaped Habsburg historiography for the last decade. He tells a story, one with a surprisingly optimistic conclusion, about a resolution of clashing worldviews.

Maureen Healy, Contemporary Austrian Studies

This is a truly remarkable book, which will provide guidance and inspiration for the next generations of scholars. It provides a political history at its best and covers a time period known for its turmoil and ruptures. With his impressive control of an extensive body of literature, Boyer integrates research that is rarely brought together into one overarching argument.

Peter Becker, Contemporary Austrian Studies

John Boyer's Austria 1867-1955 is a magnificent achievement. It examines the development of politics, government, foreign policy, and civil society over the period with greater depth and insight than any other synthesis on modern Austrian history in English or German known to this reader.

Gary B. Cohen, Contemporary Austrian Studies

Austria 1867-1955 connects the political history of German-speaking provinces of the Habsburg Empire before 1914 (Vienna and the Alpine Lands) with the history of the Austrian Republic that emerged in 1918. John W. Boyer presents the case of modern Austria as a fascinating example of democratic nation-building. The construction of an Austrian political nation began in 1867 under Habsburg Imperial auspices, with the German-speaking bourgeois Liberals defining the concept of a political people (Volk) and giving that Volk a constitution and a liberal legal and parliamentary order to protect their rights against the Crown. The decades that followed saw the administrative and judicial institutions of the Liberal state solidified, but in the 1880s and 1890s the membership of the Volk exploded to include new social and economic strata from the lower bourgeoisie and the working classes. Ethnic identity was not the final structuring principle of everyday politics, as it was in the Czech lands. Rather social class, occupational culture, and religion became more prominent variables in the sortition of civic interests, exemplified by the emergence of two great ideological parties, Christian Socialism and Social Democracy in Vienna in the 1890s. The war crisis of 1914/1918 exploded the Empire, with the Crown self-destructing in the face of military defeat, chronic domestic unrest, and bitter national partisanship. But this crisis also accelerated the emergence of new structures of democratic self-governance in the German-speaking Austrian lands, enshrined in the republican Constitution of 1920. Initial attempts to make this new project of democratic nation-building work failed in the 1920s and 1930s, culminating in the catastrophe of the 1938 Nazi occupation. After 1945 the surviving legatees of the Revolution of 1918 reassembled under the four-power Allied occupation, which fashioned a shared political culture which proved sufficiently flexible to accommodate intense partisanship, resulting, by the 1970s, in a successful republican system, organized under the aegis of elite democratic and corporatist negotiating structures, in which the Catholics and Socialists learned to embrace the skills of collective but shared self-governance.
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Austria 1867-1955 connects the political history of German-speaking provinces of the Habsburg Empire before 1914 (Vienna and the Alpine Lands) with the history of the Austrian Republic that emerged in 1918, presenting the case of modern Austria as a fascinating example of democratic nation-building.
Les mer
Introduction: The Terms of Austrian History 1: The Settlement of 1867 and the Creation of a Liberal Constitutional Order 2: Liberalism Ascendant: State Politics and Administration in the Austrian Lands, 1867-1879 3: The Era of the Iron Ring: State Consolidation and the Emergence of Civic Radicalism, 1879-1895 4: Two Decades of Constitutional Upheaval, 1895-1914 5: Late Imperial Society and Culture: The Crucible of Vienna 6: The Monarchy in the First World War 7: The Revolution of 1918-1919 8: The First Austrian Republic, 1920-1932 9: The Catholic Dictatorship and the Nazi Occupation, 1933-1945 10: The Reconstruction of a Republican Political System, 1945-1955 Conclusion: The Construction of a New Political Culture, 1955-1983
Les mer
John W. Boyer is the Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor in History at the University of Chicago and an Editor of the Journal of Modern History. A specialist in Central European history, Boyer has written three books in the field of Austrian political and social history, most recently Karl Lueger (1844-1910): Christlichsoziale Politik als Beruf, published in 2010. In 2015 he published The University of Chicago. A History. Boyer has received the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class, from the Republic of Austria, in recognition of his scholarly work on the Habsburg Empire. He is also a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Since 1992 he has served as Dean of the College at the University of Chicago.
Les mer
The first book to analyse comprehensively the political history of modern Austria on both sides of the traditional chronological divide of 1918, connecting the Imperial and Republican periods in one systematic narrative Draws on a large array of primary archival sources (diaries, autobiographies, diplomatic archives, administrative reports, Cabinet minutes, etc.), many of which have not been systematically surveyed and evaluated in the past Engages with the thorny and ever controversial question of the way in which Austrians refused after 1945 to come to terms with their nation's involvement in the Nazi regime of the Third Reich Contributes to the ongoing debate about the capacity of the Habsburg Empire to survive into the twentieth century, arguing that the strong leadership of the prospective Emperor, Franz Ferdinand, would have been critical to the ability of the regime to hold the Empire together
Les mer

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In his brilliant opus magnum John Boyer shows why Austria needed three attempts to build a stable democracy and how co-operation of formerly antagonistic political elites finally succeeded in the years after World War II.

Michael Mesch, Wiener Geschichtsblätter, Vol. 78/3

This volume offers a very comprehensive analysis of Austrian history. The extensive bibliography and index add to its usefulness for scholars. Given the in-depth coverage, the text will be most useful to those who are already familiar with the basics of Austrian history.

Choice

Austria 1867—1955 constitutes a massive undertaking. The presentation is abundant in detail, which, together with a copious index, also recommends the study as a reference work. Its focus lies on political processes and negotiations. In tune with his distinguished scholarly record, John Boyer has provided a well-informed, detailed, and generally sober analysis of modern Austrian politics. His primary audience is specialists in the field. Even if some readers may have appreciated a stronger emphasison long-term patterns and developments, the detailed mastery of so comprehensive a subject deserves nothing but praise.

Peter Thaler, German Studies Review

Se alle

This Austrian history is recommended to anyone who wants a deeper, more detailed understanding of how it was that an empire was succeeded by a small republic at the center of Europe.

Steven Beller, Journal of Modern History

What is most impressive about this admirable work is the extent of scholarship that went into it. Not only does Boyer cite almost 100 pages of secondary literature; he has looked at thirty-three Nachlasse (personal papers) along with other collections in some twenty archives, not to speak of twelve pages of printed primary records and contemporary sources.

Gunter Bischof, Contemporary Austrian Studies

This book is a magnificent handbook of administrative and political history. It especially complements the more decentered approaches historians have pursued oflate by emphasizing the core and its central administration. Students of Austrian history from undergraduates to professional scholars should onceagain be profoundly grateful to Boyer for his extraordinary contribution to our field.

Pieter M. Judson, Contemporary Austrian Studies

To my mind, the great benefit of uniting the Imperial and Republican histories in one study is apparent only if the historian presents a compelling new interpretation that allows us to see both periods in a new light. This is a great accomplishment of the book. Writing a synthetic history, Boyer does not offer an easily portable "new take" on modern Austria, and he pragmatically sidesteps the "national indifference" discourse that has shaped Habsburg historiography for the last decade. He tells a story, one with a surprisingly optimistic conclusion, about a resolution of clashing worldviews.

Maureen Healy, Contemporary Austrian Studies

This is a truly remarkable book, which will provide guidance and inspiration for the next generations of scholars. It provides a political history at its best and covers a time period known for its turmoil and ruptures. With his impressive control of an extensive body of literature, Boyer integrates research that is rarely brought together into one overarching argument.

Peter Becker, Contemporary Austrian Studies

John Boyer's Austria 1867-1955 is a magnificent achievement. It examines the development of politics, government, foreign policy, and civil society over the period with greater depth and insight than any other synthesis on modern Austrian history in English or German known to this reader.

Gary B. Cohen, Contemporary Austrian Studies

Austria 1867-1955 connects the political history of German-speaking provinces of the Habsburg Empire before 1914 (Vienna and the Alpine Lands) with the history of the Austrian Republic that emerged in 1918. John W. Boyer presents the case of modern Austria as a fascinating example of democratic nation-building. The construction of an Austrian political nation began in 1867 under Habsburg Imperial auspices, with the German-speaking bourgeois Liberals defining the concept of a political people (Volk) and giving that Volk a constitution and a liberal legal and parliamentary order to protect their rights against the Crown. The decades that followed saw the administrative and judicial institutions of the Liberal state solidified, but in the 1880s and 1890s the membership of the Volk exploded to include new social and economic strata from the lower bourgeoisie and the working classes. Ethnic identity was not the final structuring principle of everyday politics, as it was in the Czech lands. Rather social class, occupational culture, and religion became more prominent variables in the sortition of civic interests, exemplified by the emergence of two great ideological parties, Christian Socialism and Social Democracy in Vienna in the 1890s. The war crisis of 1914/1918 exploded the Empire, with the Crown self-destructing in the face of military defeat, chronic domestic unrest, and bitter national partisanship. But this crisis also accelerated the emergence of new structures of democratic self-governance in the German-speaking Austrian lands, enshrined in the republican Constitution of 1920. Initial attempts to make this new project of democratic nation-building work failed in the 1920s and 1930s, culminating in the catastrophe of the 1938 Nazi occupation. After 1945 the surviving legatees of the Revolution of 1918 reassembled under the four-power Allied occupation, which fashioned a shared political culture which proved sufficiently flexible to accommodate intense partisanship, resulting, by the 1970s, in a successful republican system, organized under the aegis of elite democratic and corporatist negotiating structures, in which the Catholics and Socialists learned to embrace the skills of collective but shared self-governance.
Les mer
Austria 1867-1955 connects the political history of German-speaking provinces of the Habsburg Empire before 1914 (Vienna and the Alpine Lands) with the history of the Austrian Republic that emerged in 1918, presenting the case of modern Austria as a fascinating example of democratic nation-building.
Les mer
Introduction: The Terms of Austrian History 1: The Settlement of 1867 and the Creation of a Liberal Constitutional Order 2: Liberalism Ascendant: State Politics and Administration in the Austrian Lands, 1867-1879 3: The Era of the Iron Ring: State Consolidation and the Emergence of Civic Radicalism, 1879-1895 4: Two Decades of Constitutional Upheaval, 1895-1914 5: Late Imperial Society and Culture: The Crucible of Vienna 6: The Monarchy in the First World War 7: The Revolution of 1918-1919 8: The First Austrian Republic, 1920-1932 9: The Catholic Dictatorship and the Nazi Occupation, 1933-1945 10: The Reconstruction of a Republican Political System, 1945-1955 Conclusion: The Construction of a New Political Culture, 1955-1983
Les mer
John W. Boyer is the Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor in History at the University of Chicago and an Editor of the Journal of Modern History. A specialist in Central European history, Boyer has written three books in the field of Austrian political and social history, most recently Karl Lueger (1844-1910): Christlichsoziale Politik als Beruf, published in 2010. In 2015 he published The University of Chicago. A History. Boyer has received the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class, from the Republic of Austria, in recognition of his scholarly work on the Habsburg Empire. He is also a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Since 1992 he has served as Dean of the College at the University of Chicago.
Les mer
The first book to analyse comprehensively the political history of modern Austria on both sides of the traditional chronological divide of 1918, connecting the Imperial and Republican periods in one systematic narrative Draws on a large array of primary archival sources (diaries, autobiographies, diplomatic archives, administrative reports, Cabinet minutes, etc.), many of which have not been systematically surveyed and evaluated in the past Engages with the thorny and ever controversial question of the way in which Austrians refused after 1945 to come to terms with their nation's involvement in the Nazi regime of the Third Reich Contributes to the ongoing debate about the capacity of the Habsburg Empire to survive into the twentieth century, arguing that the strong leadership of the prospective Emperor, Franz Ferdinand, would have been critical to the ability of the regime to hold the Empire together
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198221296
Publisert
2022
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
1414 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
50 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
1152

Forfatter
Boyer John W.

Biografisk notat

John W. Boyer is the Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor in History at the University of Chicago and an Editor of the Journal of Modern History. A specialist in Central European history, Boyer has written three books in the field of Austrian political and social history, most recently Karl Lueger (1844-1910): Christlichsoziale Politik als Beruf, published in 2010. In 2015 he published The University of Chicago. A History. Boyer has received the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class, from the Republic of Austria, in recognition of his scholarly work on the Habsburg Empire. He is also a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Since 1992 he has served as Dean of the College at the University of Chicago.

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