The Limits of Loyalty

by Cole, Laurence; Unowsky, Daniel L.

• ISBN13: 9781845452025
• ISBN10: 184545202X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-30
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

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 written by an international group of historians, provide a critical examination of the phenomenon of "dynastic patriotism" and offer a richly nuanced treatment of the multinational empire in its final phase. Laurence Coleis Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Für Gott, Kaiser und Vaterland: Nationale Identität der deutschsprachigen Bevölkerung Tirols 18601914(2000), and has recently edited Different Paths to the Nation: National and Regional Identities in Central Europe and Italy, 18301870(2007). He is also co-editor of European History Quarterly. Daniel Unowskyreceived his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is Associate Professor of History at the University of Memphis. He is the author of The Pomp and Politics of Patriotism: Imperial Celebrations in Habsburg Austria, 1848-1916(2005).

Author Biography

Laurence Cole is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Fnr Gott, Kaiser und Vaterland: Nationale IdentitSt der deutschsprachigen Bev÷lkerung Tirols 1860û1914 (2000), and has recently edited Different Paths to the Nation: National and Regional Identities in Central Europe and Italy, 1830û1870 (2007). He is also co-editor of European History Quarterly.

Daniel Unowsky received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is Associate Professor of History at the University of Memphis. He is the author of The Pomp and Politics of Patriotism: Imperial Celebrations in Habsburg Austria, 1848-1916 (2005), and currently serves as book review editor for the Austrian History Yearbook.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Patriotic and National Myths: National Consciousness and Elementary School Education in Imperial Austria	p. 11
Military Veterans and Popular Patriotism in Imperial Austria, 1870-1914	p. 36
Emperor Joseph II in the Austrian Imagination up to 1914	p. 62
The Flyspecks on Palivec's Portrait: Francis Joseph, the Symbols of Monarchy, and Czech Popular Loyalty	p. 86
Celebrating Two Emperors and a Revolution: The Public Contest to Represent the Polish and Ruthenian Nations in 1880	p. 113
Empress Elisabeth as Hungarian Queen: The Uses of Celebrity Monarchism	p. 138
State Ritual and Ritual Parody: Croatian Student Protest and the Limits of Loyalty at the End of the Nineteenth Century	p. 162
Collective Identifications and Austro-Hungarian Jews (1914-1918): The Contradictions and Travails of Avigdor Hameiri	p. 178
Representing Constitutional Monarchy in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-century Britain, Germany, and Austria	p. 199
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