1914: Austria-Hungary, the Origins, and the First Year of World War I [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Bischof Günter
• Pubblicazione: innsbruck university press, 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (400)
• Soggetto topico: History; General & world history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; History: specific events & topics; First World War
• Soggetto geografico: Austria History 1867-1918
• Persona (resp. second.): R. WilliamsonJr., Samuel (Guest Editor); KarlhofeFerdinand
• Nota di contenuto: 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 remembrance- 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 significance 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: 1914: Austria-Hungary, the Origins, and the First Year of World War I
• ISBN: 1-60801-137-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910367657403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II