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Volume 22
Austrian and Habsburg Studies
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Embers of Empire
Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918
Edited by Paul Miller and Claire Morelon
Afterword by Pieter Judson
366 pages, 14 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78920-022-5 $135.00/£99.00 Hb Published (November 2018)
ISBN 978-1-80073-212-4 $34.95/£27.95 Pb Not Yet Published (November 2021)
eISBN 978-1-78920-023-2 eBook
Reviews
“Overall, this is an excellent text with a lot of interesting and novel observations on the experiences of people in the successor states of the AustroHungarian Empire. Our tendency in the past has been to wall off our studies along contemporary national boundaries, and the editors of this book have illustrated how these new nation- states both related to one another and struggled to create independent identities. Scholars of the late years of the empire and the transitions aft er its dissolution will undoubtedly find it a valuable resource, and I would not limit my recommendation just to historians. Anyone who studies Central European culture in the first half of the twentieth century may find something useful in this book.” • Journal of Austrian Studies
“The major strengths of the work are informed, updated, and ambitious pieces that attempt to span the range of the empire in the style of the ‘Kronprinzenwerk’. Embers of Empire thus represents a sound start for further research, especially on the biographies of less well-known personalities that appeared on the stage in the wobbly world of the post-bellum states. For these reasons, it should find its place in every Habsburg and Central European historian’s shelf.” • Vicko Marelić in Contemporary Austrian Studies
“Embers of Empire is a highly impressive, thoroughly researched, and very well-written collection that draws on sources from multiple archives across all of the languages of the successor states. It will be of great interest to historians of Europe and Habsburg scholars, as well as specialists focusing on Eastern Europe and the Balkans.” • Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans
“The brilliant and well-informed essays in this collection insightfully deal with continuities between the late Habsburg and post-Habsburg eras. It exemplifies the recent stream of scholarship that has significantly revised the history of the Habsburg Empire and its legacies.” • Rudolf Kučera, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Description
The collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of World War I ushered in a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities. Yet this transformed landscape inevitably still bore the traces of its imperial past. Breaking with traditional histories that take 1918 as a strict line of demarcation, this collection focuses on the complexities that attended the transition from the Habsburg Empire to its successor states. In so doing, it produces new and more nuanced insights into the persistence and effectiveness of imperial institutions, as well as the sources of instability in the newly formed nation-states.
Paul Miller is Associate Professor of History at McDaniel College in Maryland, USA. His current research concerns the history and memory of the Sarajevo assassination.
Claire Morelon is ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Padova. She holds a dual doctorate in Modern European History from the University of Birmingham and the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris, and was a Junior Research Fellow at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford.