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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814308403321

Titolo

The limits of loyalty : imperial symbolism, popular allegiances, and state patriotism in the late Habsburg monarchy / / editors, Laurence Cole, Daniel L. Unowsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

0-85745-224-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Austrian and Habsburg studies ; ; volume 9

Classificazione

NP 5904

Disciplina

943.6/04

943.604

Soggetti

Nationalism - Austria

Group identity - Austria

Austria Politics and government 1848-1918

Europe, Central Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

THE LIMITS OF LOYALTY; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1. PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL MYTHS; Chapter 2. MILITARY VETERANS AND POPULAR PATRIOTISM IN IMPERIAL AUSTRIA, 1870-1914; Chapter 3. EMPEROR JOSEPH II IN THE AUSTRIAN IMAGINATION UP TO 1914; Chapter 4. THE FLY SPECKS ON PALIVEC'S PORTRAIT; Chapter 5. CELEBRATING TWO EMPERORS AND A REVOLUTION; Chapter 6. EMPRESS ELISABETH AS HUNGARIAN QUEEN; Chapter 7. STATE RITUAL AND RITUAL PARODY; Chapter 8. COLLECTIVE IDENTIFICATIONS AND AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN JEWS (1914-1918)

Chapter 9. REPRESENTING CONSTITUTIONALMONARCHY IN LATE NINETEENTHAND EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN, GERMANY, AND AUSTRIAAFTERWORD: The Limits of Loyalty; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The overwhelming majority of historical work on the late Habsburg Monarchy has focused primarily on national movements and ethnic conflicts, with the result that too little attention has been devoted to the state and ruling dynasty. This volume is the first of its kind to



concentrate on attempts by the imperial government to generate a dynastic-oriented state patriotism in the multinational Habsburg Monarchy. It examines those forces in state and society which tended toward the promotion of state unity and loyalty towards the ruling house. These essays, all original contributions and writte