Last Years of Austria-Hungary A Multi-National Experiment in Early Twentieth-Century Europe

by Cornwall, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780859895637
• ISBN10: 0859895637
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

The emergence of central Europe and the Balkans as a major area of interest and international concern in post-Cold War Europe have given the fall of the Habsburg Empire and the consequences of that fall considerable contemporary resonance. The Empire was an experiment in multi-national politics, and how different ethnic and religious groups live or do not live together is very much what this book is about. The eight essays in this volume seek to unravel the complexities of the final twenty years of Austria-Hungary and its eventual disintegration, tackling from different angles the political, social and international challenges to the Empire's existence. The book successfully fills a gap in the market between expensive textbooks and very specialist articles and monographs and as such will appeal both to students and to the general reader interested in the Habsburgs and the Great War.

Author Biography

Mark Cornwall is Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Dundee.

Table of Contents

List of Maps, Tables and Illustrations	viii
Contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	x
Note on Terminology	xi
Introduction	1	(12)
Mark Cornwall
The Foreign Policy of the Monarchy	13	(34)
F.R. Bridge
`Well-tempered Discontent': Austrian Domestic Politics	47	(28)
Lothar Hobelt
The Bohemian Question	75	(22)
Catherine Albrecht
The Hungarian Political Scene	97	(22)
F. Tibor Zsuppan
The Southern Slav Question	119	(30)
Janko Pleterski
The Eastern Front	149	(18)
Rudolf Jerabek
Disintegration and Defeat: The Austro-Hungarian Revolution	167	(30)
Mark Cornwall
Appendix. Documents: The Final Meetings of the Common Ministerial Council	197	(16)
Further Reading (in English)	213	(8)
Index	221