1914: Austria-Hungary, the Origins, and the First Year of World War I

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 int...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Bischof, Günter (Autor), R. Williamson, Jr., Samuel (Guest Editor), Karlhofe, Ferdinand
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: innsbruck university press 2014
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.