Title Austria, 1867-1955 / John W. Boyer

Edition First edition Published Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 1131 pages) Series Oxford history of modern Europe Oxford history of modern Europe. Contents Cover -- Austria, 1867-1955 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Terms of Austrian History -- The Lineaments of the State -- Writing Austrian History -- The Dynasty and the Court -- 1. The Settlement of 1867 and the Creation of a Liberal Constitutional Order -- The Revolution of 1848 and the Aftermath -- Neo-absolutism -- The Limits of Centralistic Rule, 1860-1866 -- The War of 1866 and the Ausgleich with Hungary -- The December Laws: The Ethos and Structure of the Austrian Constitution -- 2. Liberalism Ascendant: State Politics and Administration in the Austrian Lands, 1867-1879 -- The Liberal Era and the Bürgerministerium -- Creating a New Rechtsstaat -- Defense and Finance -- Education, Church, and State -- The War of 1870-1871 and the Potocki/Hohenwart Interlude -- 1873 and Liberalism's Second Chance -- Bosnia and Berlin -- 3. The Era of the Iron Ring: State Consolidation and the Emergence of Civic Radicalism, 1879-1895 -- The Breakthrough of the 1880s -- Eduard Taaffe and the Iron Ring, 1879-1890 -- Ethnic and Linguistic Nationalism and the Enlargement of Regional Power in the Crownlands -- The Czechs -- The Germans -- Mittelstand Radicalism and the Emergence of Austrian Political Catholicism -- Social Radicalism and the Founding of Austrian Social Democracy -- The Death of a Liberal Mirage: Taaffe and Mayerling -- The Last Years of the Iron Ring -- From Taaffe to Badeni: The Ill-fated Coalition of 1893-1895 -- Taaffe and the Vagaries of Nationalism -- 4. Two Decades of Constitutional Upheaval, 1895-1914 -- The Badeni Crisis and the Hyper-Politics of Language, 1896-1897 -- The Language Ordinances of April 1897 -- Intermezzo after Badeni -- The Koerber Era, 1900 to 1905 -- The Apogee of Mass Politics in Vienna after 1897 -- Max Vladimir von Beck and the Constitutional Reforms of 1906-1908 -- The Last, Daring Act: The Bienerth and Stürgkh Regimes, 1909-1914 -- The Monarchy in 1914 -- 5. Late Imperial Society and Culture: The Crucible of Vienna -- Vienna in the Empire -- Worlds of Wealth, Prestige, and Mobility: The Aristocracy -- Worlds of Toleration, Aspiration, and Assimilation: The Jewish Community -- New Micro-Communities in Search of Full Citizenship Rights: The Fin-de-siècle Women's Movements -- New Forms of Communication and Social Understandings: The World of Information and Political Advocacy -- The Public World of Science and Learning -- Stresses on the Systems of Equity and Access in Higher Education -- Academic Freedom and Mass Politics -- 6. The Monarchy in the First World War -- The Decision for War -- Austrian Military Strategy between 1914 and 1917 -- Wartime Absolutism and War Government -- The Octroi and Austrian Politics, 1915-1916 -- The War and Austrian Society, 1914-1917 Summary "This book 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. It 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. The war crisis of 1914/1918 exploded the Empire and also accelerated the emergence of new structures of democratic self-governance in the Austrian lands, enshrined in the republican Constitution of 1920. The catastrophe of 1938 resulting in the Nazi occupation closed off the temptation to view Austria as having a vague attachment to a larger German nation. After 1945 the surviving legatees of the Revolution of 1918 reassembled under the four-power Allied occupation. They then fashioned a shared political culture which proved sufficiently flexible to accommodate intense partisanship, but a partisanship in which each side claimed resources within the given democratic legal order, rather than seeking to dominate the general political system solely for their own purposes"--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on November 17, 2023) Subject Politics and government European history. History. SUBJECT Austria -- History -- 1867-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009712 Austria -- History -- 1918-1938. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009714 Austria -- History -- 1938-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009716 Austria -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1955. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009717 Austria -- Politics and government -- 1867-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009736 Austria -- Politics and government -- 1918-1938. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009738 Austria -- Politics and government -- 1938-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009740 Subject Austria Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191865909 0191865907 9780192561763 0192561766 9780192561770 0192561774

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