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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Habsburg Empire"”.
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Costume Albums in Charles V’s Habsburg Empire (1528-1549)
… shared close ties to the imperial court of Habsburg ruler and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (r. 1519-56). These richly illustrated albums were among the first known and surviving attempts to make sense of cultural difference by compiling visual information about regional clothing customs in …
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The unifying Habsburg Monarchy? Franz Joseph and the Bohemian Crownlands, 1867-1916
… which was the most industrialized region of the empire as well as one rife with political turmoil due to the conflict between Czech and German nationalists. It was through a shared loyalty to the emperor, who was seen by his subjects as representing a heterogeneous culture with values that …
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Empire Displaced: Ottoman-Habsburg Forced Migration and the Near Eastern Crisis, 1875-1878
… who fled Ottoman Bosnia and Hercegovina for the Habsburg Empire during the uprisings of 1875-1878. The violence during this period started out as a peasant uprising, but over the course of three years cascaded into revolts and violence across the Ottoman Balkans and led to a major European …
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Wege Der Verheißung: Jewish Thought And The Portrayal Of History In Franz Werfel’s Work
… World War and the collapse of the multiethnic Habsburg Empire, Austro-Hungarian Jews like Werfel were tasked with defining their place in a new Europe comprised of more religiously homogeneous nation-states. While several studies have approached the topic of Werfel’s process of religious and …
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Viennese Japonismus and Modern Allegory in the Work of Gustav Klimt
… historical cultural problem of the fracturing Habsburg Empire inform the aims of artistic reformers from the 1860s through the foundations of the Secession and Wiener Werkst.tte? How did the inescapable question of Austrian identity in the arts encourage eclecticism and the emergence of new …
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A history of the Neapolitan mandoline from its origins until the early nineteenth century, with a thematic index of published and manuscript music for the instrument
… Britain, Germany, Russia, North America, and the Habsburg Empire, where there was-a resurgence of interest in all types of mandolin in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth 'centuries, especially in Prague and-Vienna. Much new music was produced, including repertoire items by Mozart, Beethoven, …
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The Origins of Transnational Political Policing in Europe, 1830-1870
… policing activities of Prussia and of the Habsburg Empire. Focusing on the timeframe between the post-Napoleonic era and the German unification (1871)/the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867), this treatise analyzes the reactions of the Prussian and Austrian state apparatuses against …
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The Bias of the World : Theories of Unequal Exchange in History
… confusion regarding national boundaries in the Habsburg Empire. As to Harold A. Innis, it is argued that theories of unequal exchange could make more use of him as the historian of the bias of communication than as the originator of the ?staple thesis?. The role of Raúl Prebisch as the …
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Viennese Culture and Politics, 1861 to 1938: Everyday Expressions of ‘German’ Identity
… which were to be brought together as the German Empire in 1871 and the German-speaking parts of the Habsburg Empire. After the First World War, Germany and Austria were the main, if not only, points of attention. Switzerland and its German-speaking population received little Pan-German attention, …