Embers of Empire: Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States After 1918: 22 (Austrian and Habsburg Studies, 22)

by Claire Morelon (Editor), Paul Miller (Editor)

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2018
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The end of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy marked a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities. Yet after the dust had cleared, this transformed landscape still bore many 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 efficacity of imperial institutions, as well as the sources of instability in the newly formed nations.

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The end of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy marked a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities. Yet after the dust had cleared, this transformed landscape still bore many 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 efficacity of imperial institutions, as well as the sources of instability in the newly formed nations.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 344
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 01 Nov 2018
ISBN 10: 1789200229
ISBN 13: 9781789200225

Media Reviews

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. - G nter 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 Kucera, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Author Bio

Paul Miller is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at McDaniel College. His current research concerns the history and memory of assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Claire Morelon is a Junior Research Fellow at The Queen's College, University of Oxford. She holds a dual doctorate in Modern European History from the University of Birmingham and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris.