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New Work on the Austrian First Republic

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Haider, Edgard. Wien 1918: Agonie der Kaiserstadt. Vienna: Böhlau, 2018. Pp. 418.

Höbelt, Lothar. Die Erste Republik Österreich (1918‒1938): Das Provisorium. Vienna: Böhlau, 2018. Pp. 456.

Rauchensteiner, Manfried. Unter Beobachtung: Österreich seit 1918. Vienna: Böhlau, 2017. Pp. 628.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2020

Britta McEwen*
Affiliation:
Department of History, Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska

Extract

There is a renewed interest in writing about the First Republic among Austrian historians. As always, it is political: how to frame the collapse of the empire, how to address the political divides of the era, whether to attribute “fascism” to the Ständestaat, what constitutes history, and what is mere description. The following essay takes into account five new and large additions to the canon.

Type
Book Reviews: Review Essay
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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