Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
  • Cited by 3
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2014
Print publication year:
2007
Online ISBN:
9780511989940

Book description

For a small, prosperous country in the middle of Europe, modern Austria has a very large and complex history, extending far beyond its current borders. Today's Austrians have a problematic relationship with that history, whether with the multi-national history of the Habsburg Monarchy, or with the time between 1938 and 1945 when Austrians were Germans in Hitler's Third Reich. Steven Beller's gripping and comprehensive account traces the remarkable career of Austria through its many transformations, from German borderland, to dynastic enterprise, imperial house, Central European great power, failed Alpine republic, German province, and then successful Alpine republic, building up a picture of the layers of Austrian identity and heritage and their diverse sources. It is a story full of anomalies and ironies, a case study of the other side of European history, without the easy answers of more clearly national narratives, and hence far more relevant to today's world.

Reviews

‘Steven Beller's history of Austria is not only concise - it is also incisive, witty and engaging … Both tough and fair, but never insipidly nostalgic, in his assessments of the Austrian experience, Beller succeeds in highlighting the country's paradoxical and ambiguous role as both a foil to, and a distillation of, the broader patterns of European history.’

Aviel Roshwald - Georgetown University

‘Written in a lively and compelling style … an authoritative single-volume history of Austria … recommend[ed] to undergraduate students (at all levels) as introductory general reading.’

Dr Janet Stewart - University of Aberdeen

'… the authors has successfully risen to the original challenge of being concise … the author has managed to write no simply a concise history, but also an interpretive one that can serve as a starting point for stimulating argument.'

Source: Journal of Austrian History Yearbook

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
×

Contents

Guide to further reading
Guide to further reading
JOURNALS
Austrian History Yearbook (New York: Berghahn)
Austrian Studies (Leeds: Maney)
Central Europe (Leeds: Maney)
Central European History (Boston: Brill)
Contemporary Austrian Studies (New Brunswick: Transaction)
GENERAL
Barea, I.Vienna (New York: Knopf, 1966)
Brook-Shepherd, G.The Austrians (London: HarperCollins, 1996)
James, L.Xenophobe's Guide to the Austrians (London: Ravette, 1994)
Jelavich, B.Modern Austria: Empire and Republic, 1800–1986 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987)
Johnson, L.Central Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)
Introducing Austria (Vienna: Bundesverlag, 1987)
Kann, R. A.A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526–1918 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977)
Pelinka, A.Austria: Out of the Shadow of the Past (Boulder: Westview Press, 1998)
Solsten, E., and McClave, D. E.. Austria: a Country Study (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1994)
BEFORE 1740
Barker, T. M.Double Eagle and Crescent (Albany: SUNY Press, 1967)
Benecke, G.Maximilian I (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982)
Bérenger, J.A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1273–1700 (Harlow: Longman, 1994)
Blanning, T. C. W.The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe, 1660–1789 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
Evans, R. J. W.The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1550–1700 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979)
Evans, R. J. W.Rudolf II and his World (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973)
Evans, R. J. W., and Thomas, T. V. (eds.). Crown, Church and Estates: Central European Politics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (New York: St Martin's Press, 1991)
Fichtner, P. S.Ferdinand I (Boulder: East European Monographs, 1982)
Fichtner, P. S.Maximilian II (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001)
Ingrao, C.The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618–1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Ingrao, C.In Quest and Crisis: Emperor Joseph I and the Habsburg Monarchy (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1979)
Ingrao, C. (ed.). The State and Society in Early Modern Austria (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1994)
Kann, R. A.A Study in Austrian Intellectual History (New York: Praeger, 1960)
Koenigsberger, H. G.The Habsburgs and Europe, 1516–1660 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971)
Leeper, A. W. A.A History of Medieval Austria (London: Oxford University Press, 1941)
Lockyer, R.Habsburg and Bourbon Europe, 1470–1720 (London: Longman, 1974)
McKay, D. Prince Eugene of Savoy (London: Thames & Hudson, 1977)
Maltby, W. S.The Reign of Charles V (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002)
Parker, G.Europe in Crisis, 1598–1650 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979)
Spielman, J. P.The City and the Crown: Vienna and the Imperial Court, 1600–1740 (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1993)
Spielman, J. P.Leopold I of Austria (London: Thames & Hudson, 1977)
Steinberg, S. H.The ‘Thirty Years War’ (London: Edward Arnold, 1966)
Stoye, J.The Siege of Vienna (New York: Holt, 1965)
Tanner, M.The Last Descendants of Aeneas: the Habsburgs and the Mythic Image of the Emperor (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993)
Wheatcroft, A.The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995)
1740–1918
Beales, D.Joseph II, 1741–1780 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987)
Beller, S.Francis Joseph (Harlow: Longman, 1996)
Beller, S. ‘The Tragic Carnival: Austrian Culture in the First World War’, in Roshwald, A and Stites, R. (eds.), European Culture in the Great War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
Beller, S.Vienna and the Jews, 1867–1938: a Cultural History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
Beller, S. (ed.). Rethinking Vienna 1900 (Oxford: Berghahn, 2001)
Blanning, T. C. W.Joseph II (Harlow: Longman, 1994)
Boyer, J. W.Culture and Political Crisis in Vienna, 1897–1918 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995)
Boyer, J. W.Political Radicalism in Late Imperial Vienna, 1848–1897 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981)
Brauer, K., and Wright, W. E. (eds.). Austria in the Age of the French Revolution, 1789–1815 (Minneapolis: Center for Austrian Studies, 1990)
Bridge, F. R.The Habsburg Monarchy among the Great Powers, 1815–1918 (Oxford: Berg, 1990)
Browning, R.The War of the Austrian Succession (New York: St Martin's Press, 1993)
Cohen, G. B.Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918 (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1996)
Cornwall, M. (ed.). The Last Years of Austria-Hungary (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002)
Deák, I.Beyond Nationalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990)
Dickson, P. G. M.Finance and Government under Maria Theresa, 1740–1780, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987)
Geehr, R. S.Karl Lueger (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990)
Good, D. F.The Economic Rise of the Habsburg Empire, 1750–1914 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984)
Hamann, B.Hitler's Vienna (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
Hanson, A. M.Musical Life in Biedermeier Vienna (Cambridge, 1985)
Healy, M.Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Janik, A., and Toulmin, S.. Wittgenstein's Vienna (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973)
Jászi, O.The Dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1929)
Jenks, W. A.Austria under the Iron Ring, 1879–1893 (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1965)
Johnston, W. M.The Austrian Mind: an Intellectual and Social History, 1848–1938 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972)
Judson, P. M.Exclusive Revolutionaries (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996)
King, J.Budweisers into Czechs and Germans (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002)
Macartney, C. A.The Habsburg Empire, 1790–1918 (London: Macmillan, 1969)
Macartney, C. A.Maria Theresa and the House of Austria (London: English University Press, 1969)
McCagg, W. O.A History of Habsburg Jews, 1670–1918 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989)
McGrath, W. J.Dionysian Art and Populist Politics in Austria (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974)
McGrath, W. J.Freud's Discovery of Psychoanalysis: the Politics of Hysteria (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986)
Melton, J. V. H.Absolutism and the Eighteenth Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
Okey, R.The Habsburg Monarchy: From Enlightenment to Eclipse (New York: St Martin's Press, 2001)
Pulzer, P.The Rise of Political Antisemitism in Germany and Austria, rev. edn (London: Halban, 1988)
Rath, J. R.The Viennese Revolution (New York: Greenwood, 1969)
Redlich, J.Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria (New York: Macmillan, 1929)
Reifowitz, I.Imagining an Austrian Nation (Boulder: East European Monographs, 2003)
Rothenberg, G. E.The Army of Francis Joseph (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1976)
Schnitzler, A.The Road to the Open (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1991)
Schorske, C. E.Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980)
Shedel, J.Art and Society: the New Art Movement in Vienna, 1897–1914 (Palo Alto: SPOSS, 1981)
Sked, A.The Decline and Fall of the Habsburg Empire, 1815–1918 (London: Longman, 1989)
Stone, N.The Eastern Front, 1914–1917 (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1975)
Taylor, A. J. P.The Habsburg Monarchy, 1809–1918 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1948)
Varnedoe, K.Vienna 1900: Art, Architecture and Design (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1986)
Vergo, P.Art in Vienna, 1898–1918 (Oxford: Phaidon, 1981)
Wangermann, E.The Austrian Achievement, 1700–1800 (London: Thames & Hudson, 1973)
Wawro, G.The Austro-Prussian War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Williamson, S. R. Jr.Austria-Hungary and the Origins of the First World War (London: Macmillan, 1991)
Wistrich, R. S.The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989)
AFTER 1918
Bassett, R.Waldheim and Austria (London: Penguin, 1988)
Bottomore, T., and Goode, P. (eds.). Austro-Marxism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978)
Bukey, E. B.Hitler's Austria (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000)
Hitler's Hometown (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986)
Bunzl, M.Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late Twentieth-Century Vienna (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004)
Carsten, F. L.Fascist Movements in Austria (London: Sage, 1977)
Clare, G.Last Waltz in Vienna (London: Macmillan, 1981)
Cronin, A. K.Great Power Politics and the Struggle over Austria, 1945–1955 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985)
Field, F.The Last Days of Mankind: Karl Kraus and his Vienna (London: Macmillan, 1967)
Gehl, J.Austria, Germany and the Anschluss, 1931–1938 (London: Oxford University Press, 1963)
Gulick, C. A.Austria: From Habsburg to Hitler, 2 vols. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948)
Höbelt, L.Defiant Populist: Jörg Haider and the Politics of Austria (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2003)
Katzenstein, P. J.Corporatism and Change: Austria, Switzerland and the Politics of Industry (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984)
Kitchen, M.The Coming of Austrian Fascism (London: Croom Helm, 1980)
Klemperer, K.Ignaz von Seipel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972)
Luft, D. S.Eros and Inwardness in Vienna: Weininger, Musil, Doderer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003)
Luft, D. S.Robert Musil and the Crisis of European Culture, 1880–1942 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980)
Mitten, R.The Politics of Antisemitic Prejudice: the Waldheim Phenomenon in Austria (Boulder: Westview, 1992)
Oxaal, I., Pollak, M., and Botz, G. (eds.). Jews, Antisemitism and Culture in Vienna (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987)
Pauley, B. F.Hitler and the Forgotten Nazis (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981)
Pauley, B. F.From Prejudice to Persecution: a History of Austrian Anti-Semitism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992)
Pick, H.Guilty Victim: Austria from the Holocaust to Haider (London: I. B. Tauris, 2000)
Rabinbach, A. (ed.). The Austrian Socialist Experiment (Boulder: Westview, 1985)
Robertson, R., and Timms, E. (eds.). The Habsburg Legacy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994)
Singer, P.Pushing Time Away (New York: HarperCollins, 2003)
Snowman, D.The Hitler Emigrés (London: Chatto & Windus, 2002)
Spiel, H.Vienna's Golden Autumn, 1866–1938 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987)
Stadler, F.The Vienna Circle (New York: Springer, 2001)
Stadler, K.Austria (Praeger: New York, 1971)
Steiner, K., Fellner, F. and Feichtlbauer, H. (eds.). Modern Austria (Palo Alto: SPOSS, 1981)
Steininger, R., Bischof, G. and Gehler, M. (eds.). Austria in the Twentieth Century (New Brunswick: Transaction, 2002)
Sully, M.A Contemporary History of Austria (London: Routledge, 1990)
Vansant, J.Reclaiming Heimat: Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by Jewish Austrian Reémigrés (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001)
Waldheim, K.The Austrian Example (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973)
Wright, W. E. (ed.). Austria since 1945 (Minneapolis: Center for Austrian Studies, 1982)

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Full text views

Total number of HTML views: 0
Total number of PDF views: 0 *
Loading metrics...

Book summary page views

Total views: 0 *
Loading metrics...

* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

Usage data cannot currently be displayed.