Celebrating 25 Years of Service
Dear friends,
Welcome to HABSBURG, a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine. We are affiliated with the Center for Austrian Studies, the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History, the Czechoslavak Studies Association, and the Hungarian Studies Association. HABSBURG is the community within H-Net dealing with the culture and history of the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states in central Europe from 1500 to the present.
Recent Discussions
CFP: International Congress «Nicolau Chanterene and the Sculpture Practice in the Context of Sixteenth Century Arts», Lisbon, Oct. 2018
International Congress «Nicolau Chanterene and the Sculpture Practice in the Context of Sixteenth Century Arts»
DATE
October 22, 23 and 24, 2018
LOCATION
School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon - Amphitheatre 3 and room 5.2
PRESENTATION
CONF: Imperial Cities: The Tsarist Empire, the Habsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire in Comparison
International Conference
German Historical Institute, Moscow, April 26-27, 2018
PRIZE: Hungarian Studies Association article / book chapter prize
The Hungarian Studies Association is pleased to announce the Mark Pittaway Prize for best scholarly article or book chapter in Hungarian studies, to be awarded in December 2018.
The award committee is seeking nominations or submissions of scholarly articles or book chapters in any field or discipline of Hungarian studies, published in English in 2016 or 2017. (Articles or books with a publication date of 2018 will be eligible in 2020.)
STIP: Reminder: The Vivian G. Prins Fellowship 2018 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is pleased to offer a fellowship for emigrating scholars, artists, museum professionals, and researchers through a grant from The Vivian G. Prins Foundation. The grant is in honor of Bronia Brandman, a survivor of Auschwitz and one of the Museum’s earliest and most steadfast volunteers. The Vivian G.
Stip: Venetian Research Programme: British and Commonwealth Applicants
Venetian Research Programme:
British and Commonwealth Applicants
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation – British and Commonwealth Committee – announces its 2018–2019 programme of grants for study based on travel to and research in Venice and the Veneto and other territories of the former Venetian Republic.
STIP: Wirth Institute - 2018-2019 Doctoral Research Fellowship Programs
The Wirth Institute would like to announce the competition for its 2018-2019 Doctoral Research Fellowship Programs is NOW OPEN!
Students currently enrolled in doctoral programs in any field in Fine and Performing Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences in universities in Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, or Poland and holding citizenship in those countries are invited to join the group of Wirth Fellows in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta.
CONF: Tagung »Europäische Grenz- und Begegnungsräume im Wandel«, 12.-14. April 2018 in Wien
Tagung anlässlich des Europäischen Kulturerbejahres 2018 vom 12. bis 14. April 2018 an der Universität Wien
Prize: Call for Submissions: Center for Austrian Studies 2018 Book Award
The Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota announces its competition for the 2018 Center for Austrian Studies Book Prize.
ANN: Helmut Rumpler 1935-2018
Helmut Rumpler, Professor Emeritus for Modern and Austrian History at the University of Klagenfurt and Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, died in early February at the age of 82. Rumpler, a native of Vienna, was professor in Klagenfurt from 1975 until 2003. For many years he headed the Austrian Academy's Commission for the History of the Habsburg Monarchy and was until his death editor of the multi-volume series "Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848-1918", published by the Commission and since 2013 by its successor, the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Historical Research.
Pages
Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Robert Deam Tobin
Tobin on Wingfield, 'The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria'
Nancy M. Wingfield. The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 288 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-880165-8.
Reviewed by Robert Deam Tobin (Clark University)
Published on HABSBURG (March, 2018)
Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=51055
Reviewer:
Daniel Brett
Brett on Iordachi and Bauerkämper, 'The Collectivization of Agriculture in Communist Eastern Europe: Comparison and Entanglements'
Constantin Iordachi, Arnd Bauerkämper, eds. The Collectivization of Agriculture in Communist Eastern Europe: Comparison and Entanglements. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2014. 560 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-615522563-5.
Reviewed by Daniel Brett (The Open University)
Published on HABSBURG (February, 2018)
Commissioned by Andrew Behrendt
Reviewer:
Leslie Topp
Topp on Shapira, 'Style and Seduction: Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siècle Vienna'
Elana Shapira. Style and Seduction: Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siècle Vienna. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2016. xv + 314 pp. Illustrations. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61168-921-1.
Reviewed by Leslie Topp (Birkbeck, University of London)
Published on HABSBURG (July, 2017)
Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Reviewer:
Daniel Fulco
Fulco on Schmale and Romberg and Köstlbauer, 'The Language of Continent Allegories in Baroque Central Europe'
Wolfgang Schmale, Marion Romberg, Josef Köstlbauer, eds. The Language of Continent Allegories in Baroque Central Europe. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. Illustrations. 240 pp. $78.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-515-11457-8.
Reviewed by Daniel Fulco (Independent Scholar)
Published on HABSBURG (May, 2017)
Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
A New Perspective on Continent Allegories
Reviewer:
Patrice M. Dabrowski
Dabrowski on Alvis, 'White Eagle, Black Madonna: One Thousand Years of the Polish Catholic Tradition' and Burson and Lehner, 'Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: A Transnational History'
Robert E. Alvis. White Eagle, Black Madonna: One Thousand Years of the Polish Catholic Tradition. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. Illustrations, maps. 368 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8232-7170-2; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-7171-9.Jeffrey D. Burson, Ulrich L. Lehner, eds. Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: A Transnational History. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. x + 482 pp.
Reviewer:
Suzanna Ivanic
Ivanic on Greenblatt, 'To Tell Their children: Jewish Communal Memory in Early Modern Prague'
Rachel L. Greenblatt. To Tell Their children: Jewish Communal Memory in Early Modern Prague. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. 320 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-8602-7.
Reviewed by Suzanna Ivanic (University of Cambridge)
Published on HABSBURG (January, 2017)
Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Gravestones, Hanging Dresses, and Memory in Prague's Early Modern Jewish Community
Reviewer:
Lidia Zessin-Jurek
Zessin-Jurek on Dabrowski, 'Poland: The First Thousand Years'
Patrice M. Dabrowski. Poland: The First Thousand Years. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2014. 506 pp. $45.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87580-487-3.
Reviewed by Lidia Zessin-Jurek (Deutsch-Polnisches Forschungsinstitut am Collegium Polonicum)
Published on HABSBURG (January, 2016)
Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Polish History for the General Reader
Reviewer:
Emily X. X. Tan
Tan on Bent and Bretherton and Drabkin, 'Heinrich Schenker: Selected Correspondence'
Ian Bent, David Bretherton, William Drabkin, eds. Heinrich Schenker: Selected Correspondence. Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2014. 561 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84383-964-4.
Reviewed by Emily X. X. Tan (Oxford University)
Published on HABSBURG (November, 2015)
Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Heinrich Schenker in Correspondence: The Unpublished Writing of the Twentieth Century's Most Influential Music Theorist
Reviewer:
Hannah S. Decker
Decker on Meyer-Palmedo, 'Sigmund Freud - Anna Freud: Correspondence, 1904-1938'
Ingeborg Meyer-Palmedo, ed. Sigmund Freud - Anna Freud: Correspondence, 1904-1938. Translated by Nick Somers. Cambridge: Polity Books, 2014. xiii + 513 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7456-4149-2.
Reviewed by Hannah S. Decker (University of Houston)
Published on HABSBURG (October, 2015)
Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Daily Life and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Central Europe
Reviewer:
Birgitta Bader-Zaar
Bader-Zaar on Adams, 'Women and the Vote: A World History'
Jad Adams. Women and the Vote: A World History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 528 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-870684-7.
Reviewed by Birgitta Bader-Zaar (University of Vienna)
Published on HABSBURG (October, 2015)
Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
An Attempt at a Global History of Women's Suffrage