The \u27\u27Long Shadow\u27\u27 of the State: Austrian Social History in the 20th Century, 1890-1990 - German - Book Review

Ernst Hanisch\u27s new survey of Austrian Zeitgeschichte is one of the first volumes to appear in Ueberreuter Verlag\u27s projected ten volume history of Austria from ancient times to the present, edited by Herwig Wolfram. If the other contributions equal this work in quality, the series will be a brilliant success. Hanisch\u27s book will be a touchstone for all future efforts to synthesize and extract meaning from Austria\u27s turbulent twentieth century experience

Austro-German Liberalism and the Modern Liberal Tradition

In a widely-cited essay on turn-of-the century Vienna, Carl Schorske alludes to the dissolution of the classical liberal view of man in the crucible of Austria\u27s modern politics .... [and] the emergence of psychological man from the wreckage of the old culture. \u27 The theme of liberal decline has provided Schorske with the backdrop for several important articles on late nineteenth century Austria, and a number of interesting monographs. Relatively few historical studies, however, address the subject of Austrian liberalism per se, and those which do are mostly broad surveys

Controversies Concerning Austrian History. Repressed Past, Austrian Identity, Waldheim and the History – Book Review

Most of the thirty-nine essays in this useful anthology were originally presented as papers at a two-day Salzburg symposium held in May 1987 at the height of the Waldheim affair and on the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the Anschluss. By this time Salzburg-behind the leadership of Botz, Ernst Hanisch, and others-had become the major academic center for sane engagement with the painful issues surrounding Austria\u27s history as part of the Third Reich between 1938 and 1945

Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture – Book Review

For the past two decades, Carl Schorske has been one of the most interesting writers in the field of late nineteenth-century Austrian history. The appearance of this handsomely illustrated collection of his essays - most of which originally appeared in historical journals - provides an opportunity to reflect on the nature of his contribution. The book consists of seven studies on topics ranging from the Ringstrafienstil in urban planning to Kokoschka\u27s expressionism and Schoenberg\u27s musical explorations. The finest, entitled Politics in a New Key, is an examination of the irrational sharper key in political rhetoric and deportment which arose in Austria in the 1880s. Here the qualities of Schorske\u27s craft are exhibited at their best: a perceptive eye for the prevailing imagery of the day, the ability to weave a tight fabric of analysis around a few central themes, and an often deft (though occasionally overwrought) prose style. The essays are held together by a few well-chosen motifs: e.g., generational conflict between liberal fathers and rebellious sons, the sense of undirected flux which preoccupied the intelligentsia, upper middle-class aestheticism and status envy for the aristocracy, and the notion of threatened masculinity which surfaced so often in the arts. These are not unfamiliar themes in Austrian cutural history and literary criticism, but Schorske develops them with uncommon skill

Annotated Checklist of Amphibian and Reptile Species Observed at the Gordon Natural Area (West Chester University, PA) 2008-2020. Version I

Data were compiled from surveys by Dr. Harry Tiebout, augmented by observations from GNA staff (which, as used here, includes student interns), graduate student Steven Clay, the Stroud Water Research Center, additional WCU Faculty, and members of the WCU Grounds Department. Local residents who are regular visitors to the Gordon have also occasionally contributed observations. Because herptile data haven\u27t been systematically archived by the GNA staff until recent years, there are many gaps in the observation timeline that are clearly artificial. For example, although the observation history for the Eastern American Toad, Eastern Redback Salamander, and Eastern Box Turtle suggests that there were a number of years in which one, or all, of these species were not seen at the GNA, it is very likely that all three of these species have been observed numerous times during every year that the GNA has been in existence. Hopefully, moving forward, we\u27ll be able to maintain a more complete record of observations

The Once and Future Budapest – Book Review

Robert Nemes has written a concise and useful overview of the expansion, mod ernization, and ethnic transformation of Budapest in the classic era of nineteenth century nationalism and liberalism, from the French Revolutionary era to the eve of World War I. The author tells the story of the rise of a metropolis imagined as a national (i. e., Magyar) capital city, in place of the older, prenationalist and socially corporatist seventeenth- and eighteenth-century towns of Ofen (Buda), ?buda, and Pest, which were largely German Sprachinseln straddling the Danube on the Hungarian plain

Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life - Book Review

Liberal parties fared poorly in the politics of late Habsburg Austria, yet Deborah Coen argues that nineteenth-century Austro-German liberalism should be imagined in a context larger than lost elections. We must recognize liberalism’s importance in the realms of sensibility, lifestyle, science, pedagogy, and leisure. In refreshing ways, Coen’s book revises the half-truths of Carl Schorske’s picture of Austrian liberalism as a father’s credo overwhelmed after 1880 by rebellious oedipal sons, anti-Semitism, and aesthetic modernisms. Although acknowledging elitist and utopian aspects of the liberal ethos, Coen depicts liberal strategies for navigating pre-1914 change with pronounced sympathy and claims that liberalism was more supple and less hostile to modernism and generational challenge than Schorske thought. More broadly, she expands our understanding of the scientific and philosophical imaginations in Austria, the history of ethics, and relationships between the public and private spheres

Hermann Neubacher and Austrian Anschluss Movement, 1918-40

The Anschluss problem was one of the most vexing legacies of nineteenth-century nationalism and the peace settlement of 1919. Seen in broad perspective, the Anschluss movement belongs to the final chapter in the history ofthe idea o Grossdeutschland, a dream born in 1848 and shared after 1867 by German-Austrians of the most varied cultural backgrounds and political opinions. Support for Ger? man union intensified following the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1918, but was frustrated by the restrictions placed upon union by the treaties of Versailles and Saint-Germain. After 1919 sympathy for Anschluss transcended party lines in the infant Austrian republic, and grew more rapidly than within Germany itself. For many members of the front generation young men who had served in the Habsburg army and who felt the humiliation of defeat with special intensity, the cause of Anschluss became a life-shaping force. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the career of Hermann Neubacher

Grasping Toward Austria: The Anschluss - Book Review

The 1970s were an interesting and significant decade for the historiography of contemporary Austria. Among Austrian scholars, the tradition of Koalitionsgeschichtsschreihung, a reflection of the political and bureaucratic system Proporz which reigned in the 1950s and 1960s, began to break down. With the triumph of Social Democracy under Bruno Kreisky, fewer historians especially those of the left were willing to continue sharing in the orderly division of responsibility for the recent past. Moreover, some of the controversy aroused in Germany by Fritz Fischer\u27s work began to invigorate Austrian historical studies. Both in Austria and abroad, historians became less inclined to treat Austria as a unique case, and increasingly interested in the Alpine state as a study in the general development of contemporary central Europe. The publication of Norbert Schausberger\u27s Der Griff nach Osterreich in early 1978, the fortieth anniversary of the Anschluss, marked in some respects a milestone in this direction; it provides the opportunity to review a sampling of the more interesting recent literature, and to reflect, as well, on some general problems of conceptualizing contemporary Austrian history

On Austria’s German Identity: A Reply to Margarete Grandner, Gernot Heiss, and Oliver Rathkolb

In their response to my essay Austria and the Struggle for German Identity (German Studies Review, Special Issue, Winter 1992), Margarete Grandner, Gernot Heiss, and Oliver Rathkolb make several unwarranted claims and one useful reminder. Among the unjustified claims are the suggestion that I consider nationality an eternal category of historical understanding (not true - though I do believe that it has proven awfully resilient over the past two centuries) and the assertation that I deny the possible existence of any but a German identity for Austria. On the latter point, one should read the original article\u27s entire sentence beginning Against this backdrop... (top of page 112) rather than the trimmed and altered version they supply in their footnote 2. Note, as well, that on page 124 1 explicitly state: There are many possible ways to imagine a history of Austria - one of those, in any case, must be as part of German history, otherwise it is unlikely that any serious and neglected comparative regional history will be done