The essays in this volume argue that Schüssel's political record and legacy are ambiguous.
In the past quarter century we have moved from the Cold War to the Post-Cold War era in Austria, Europe and the world at large.
This volume of Contemporary Austrian Studies offers a cross section of Austrian lives and biographical approaches to recent Austrian history.
A fresh and decidedly non-dogmatic approach to World System Theory is offered by Thomas J. McCormick. See: McCormick, “World Systems,” in Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations, ed. Michael J. Hogan and Thomas G. Paterson ...
This collection provides new access to the work of Comte and gives practitioners of various disciplines the possibility of reassessing concepts that were first introduced in Comte's writings.
This collection provides new access to the work of Comte and gives practitioners of various disciplines the possibility of reassessing concepts that were first introduced in Comte's writings.
a totally new KZ-system, based upon a few central camps which followed the example of Dachau. For a synopsis of this transformation, see Angelika Königseder, “Die Entwicklung des KZ-Systems,” in Der Ort des Terrors, vol. 1, ed.
Von rund 100 Millionen Soldaten, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg gegeneinander kampften, gerieten etwa 35 Millionen (also ein Drittel) in Gefangenschaft. Renommierte Historiker aus Europa und den USA beleuchten die Thematik...
The essays of a dozen leading European and American Cold War historians analyze the 'Prague Spring' and the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in light of new documentary evidence from the archives of two dozen countries and explain ...
This interdisciplinary volume offers methodologically innovative approaches to Austria's coping with issues of migration past and present. These essays show Austria's long history as a migration country.
Alle mussten sich mit einer schwierigen Einwanderungspolitik der USA auseinandersetzen, trotzdem ist den meisten von ihnen eine erfolgreiche Integration in die amerikanische Gesellschaft gelungen. ...
The chapters in this volume try to assess Vranitzky's central role in recent Austrian and European history. Richard Luther presents the general European political context in which Vranitzky operated.
No European country has experienced more dramatic turning points in its twentieth-century history than Austria. This volume divides the century into three periods. The five essays of Section I deal with the years 1900-1938.
Photos of wars figure heavily in this volume, from the brutal fighting in the Dolomites during WWI to National Socialism, concentration camps and the air war during WW II. Postwar life and the American presence in Austria will be documented ...
Unlike the United States, however, general affluence did not set in until the 1960s and 1970s even though Austria's dramatic baby boom enabled it to recover from the demographic catastrophe resulting from manpower losses of World War II., ...
Topical and nontopical essays and book reviews address foreign relations, Austrian industry, youth culture, and the Marshall Plan. Six of the 17 e
This volume celebrates the study of Austria in the twentieth century by historians, political scientists and social scientists produced in the previous twenty-four volumes of Contemporary Austrian Studies.
After the start of the Marshall Plan in June 1948, the first ERP supplies reached Austria in the fall of that year. ... coal, electricity) and a general “core plan” were developed under the direction of the young economist Margarethe ...
Exploring the many connections between New Orleans and Innsbruck, the interdisciplinary essays in this book will change the way we think about cities both local and abroad.
These essays do not pretend to cover every aspect of Eisenhower's remarkable career , nor are they designed to achieve ... 1992 ) ; R. Alton Lee , Eisenhower and Landrum - Griffin : A Study in Labor - Management Politics ( Lexington ...