1914 Austria-Hungary, the origins, and the first year of World War I

In den vergangenen 100 Jahren haben bekannte Historiker und Politikwissenschaftler immer wieder die Ereignisse des Juli und August 1914 analysiert und interpretiert. Die vier Jahre andauernden Kämpfe des 1. Weltkrieges haben das internationale System, das am Wiener Kongress 1814/15 seinen Anfang nah...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bischof, Günter
Other Authors: Karlhofer, Ferdinand, Williamson, Samuel R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Orleans, Louisiana UNO Press 2014, [2014]
Series:Contemporary Austrian studies
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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 rememberance- 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 signifiance 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.
  • Includes bibliographical references