Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire

Total War and Everyday Life in World War I

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Maureen Healy

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Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

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Maureen Healy examines the collapse of the Habsburg Empire from the perspective of everyday life in the capital city. She argues that a striking feature of 'total war' on the home front was the spread of a war mentality to the mundane sites of everyday life - streets, shops, schools, entertainment venues and apartment buildings. While Habsburg armies waged military campaigns on distant fronts, Viennese civilians (women, children and men 'left at home') waged a protracted, socially devastating war against one another. Vienna's multi-ethnic population lived together in conditions of severe material shortage and faced near-starvation by 1917. The city fell into civilian mutiny before the state collapsed in 1918. Based on meticulous archival research, including citizens' letters to state authorities, the study offers a new and penetrating look at Habsburg citizenship by showing how ordinary women, men and children conceived of 'Austria' in the Empire's final years.

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MAUREEN HEALY is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Oregon State University. She was the winner of the Fraenkel Prize from the Wiener Library and Institute of Contemporary History, London, 2000.

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May 27th, 2004

Author

Maureen Healy

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Professional & Vocational

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5 Tables, unspecified; 20 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

352

Series

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

Dimensions

152x229x24

ISBN-13

9780521831246

Product ID

2700473

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