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Title 1914 : Austria-Hungary, the origins, and the first year of World War I / Günter Bischof, Ferdinand Karlhofer (Eds.) ; Samuel R. Williamson, Jr. (Guest Editor)
Published New Orleans, Louisiana : UNO Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Contemporary Austrian studies ; v. 23
Contemporary Austrian studies ; v. 23.
Contents Preface -- TOPICAL ESSASY -- AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AND THE ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR I -- Austria and the origins of the Great War: a selective historiographical survey / Samuel R. Williamson, Jr. -- The case of Alfred Redl and the situation of Austro-Hungarian Military Intelligence on the eve of World War I / Hannes Leidinger -- Conrad von Hötzendorf and the "Smoking Gun" : a biographical examination of responsibility and traditions of violence against civilians in the Habsburg Army -- Amnesia and rememberance- Count Berchtold on 1914 / Günther Kronenbitter -- SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS AT WAR -- A train ride to disaster: the Austro-Hungarian Eastern Front in 1914 / Richard Lein -- The Habsburg Empire, Serbia, and 1914: the signifiance of a sideshow / Jonathan Gumz -- "This monstrous front will devour us all"> the Austro-Hungarian soldier experience, 1914-15 / Jason Engle -- Exiles of Eden: Vienna and the Viennese during and after World War I / Peter Berger -- Resistance against the War of 1914-1918 / Gerhard Senft -- 'Our Weddigen': on the construction of the War hero in the k.u.k. Army. The 'Naval hero" Egon Lerch as an example / Nicole-Melanie Goll -- The treatment of Prisoners of War in Austria-Hungary 1914/1915: the historiography of Prisoners of War in the Late Habsburg Empire / Verena Moritz -- Gathering war: the collection effort by the Imperial Court Library in Vienna during World War I
Summary For the past 100 years some of the greatest historians and political scientists of the twentieth century have picked apart, analyzed and reinterpreted this sequence of events taking place within a single month in July/early August 1914. The four years of fighting during World War I destroyed the international system put into place at the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 and led to the dissolution of some of the great old empires of Europe (Austrian-Hungarian, Ottoman, Russian). The 100th anniversary of the assassination of the Austrian successor to the throne Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo unleashed the series of events that unleashed World War I. The assassination in Sarajevo, the spark that set asunder the European powder keg, has been the focus of a veritable blizzard of commemorations, scholarly conferences and a new avalanche of publications dealing with this signal historical event that changed the world. Contemporary Austrian Studies would not miss the opportunity to make its contribution to these scholarly discourses by focusing on reassessing the Dual Monarchy's crucial role in the outbreak and the first year of the war, the military experience in the trenches, and the chaos on the homefront
In den vergangenen 100 Jahren haben bekannte Historiker und Politikwissenschaftler immer wieder die Ereignisse des Juli und August 1914 analysiert und interpretiert. Die vier Jahre andauernden Kämpfe des 1. Weltkrieges haben das internationale System, das am Wiener Kongress 1814/15 seinen Anfang nahm, zerstört und zum Zerfall großer Reiche (Österreich-Ungarn, Russland, Osmanisches Reich) geführt. Der 100. Jahrestag der Ermordung des österreichischen Thronfolgers Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand und seiner Frau Sophie in Sarajevo ist nun Anlass, in Form von Gedenkveranstaltungen und Publikationen jener Ereignisse zu gedenken, die den zündenden Funken ins Pulverfass geworfen haben. Band 23 der Contemporary Austrian Studies versucht dazu einen Beitrag zu leisten, in dem die entscheidende Rolle der Doppelmonarchie zum Ausbruch des 1. Weltkrieges, die militärischen Erfahrungen in den Schützengräben und das Chaos an der Heimatfront beleuchtet werden
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Austria
History.
General & world history.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
History: specific events & topics.
First World War.
HISTORY -- Essays.
Weltkrieg
SUBJECT Austria -- History -- 1867-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009712
Subject Austria
Österreich-Ungarn
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bischof, Günter, 1953-
Karlhofer, Ferdinand, 1956-
Williamson, Samuel R.
ISBN 9781608011377
1608011372
Other Titles Nineteen-fourteen : Austria-Hungary, the origins, and the first year of World War I