3,235円 The Viennese café was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultu...

3,517円 Following the transformations and conflicts of the first half of the twentieth century, Austria’s emergence as an independent democracy heralded a new era of stability and prosperity for the nation. Among the new developments was mass tourism to the nation’s cities, spa towns, and wilderness area...

3,940円 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 t...

3,517円 Assessing the impact of fin-de-siècle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century. It examines how Vienna, the city that stood at the center of Jewish life in t...

3,517円 At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud’s investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this ‘territory’ in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sanatoriums were the new tourism destinations, psychiatrists were collecting art work...

3,517円 From the 1860s onward, Habsburg Hungary attempted a massive project of cultural assimilation to impose a unified national identity on its diverse populations. In one of the more quixotic episodes in this “Magyarization,” large monuments were erected near small towns commemorating the medieval con...

4,927円 Well before the far-right resurgence that has most recently transformed European politics, Austria’s 1999 parliamentary elections surprised the world with the unexpected success of the Freedom Party of Austria and its charismatic leader, Jörg Haider. The party’s perceived xenophobia, isolationism...

3,940円 Out of a film culture originally starved of funds have emerged rich and eclectic works by film-makers that are now achieving the international recognition that they deserve: Barbara Albert, Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl, and Stefan Ruzowitzky, to give four examples. This comprehensive critical ant...

3,517円 Vienna’s unique intellectual, political, and religious traditions had a powerful impact on the transformation of sexual knowledge in the early twentieth century. Whereas turn-of-the-century sexology, as practiced in Vienna as a medical science, sought to classify and heal individuals, during the ...

880円 Viktor Mautner Markhof versetzt seine LeserInnen zurück in das Jahr 1645: Der schwedische Feldmarschall Lennart Torstensson belagert mit seinen Truppen die Stadt Brünn. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit einer längeren Belagerung standhalten zu können, ohne Verstärkung durch zusätzliche Truppen, schätzten vi...

4,000円 Spannendes zwischen den Zeiten Bestsellerautor Georg Markus begibt sich auf Spurensuche durch Österreichs Geschichte. In über 100 kurzweiligen Miniaturen erzählt er von bekannten und weniger bekannten Persönlichkeiten aus der Welt des Theaters und der Musik, von Kriminalfällen und skurrilen Begeb...

1,333円 Scandalous, rebellious Sisi, the Empress of Austria, is a cult figure in Europe, figurehead of Vienna’s tourist industry. For the first time, the full story is revealed of all her English and Irish visits and her doomed love for an English officer. Controversial, extravagant, shy and beautiful, m...