PRIZE: Stanley Z. Pech Prize
The Czechoslovak Studies Association (CSA) is pleased to announce the opening of the competition for the Stanley Z. Pech Prize for 2022.
Welcome to HABSBURG, a member of the H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Online family of networks sponsored by the Michigan State University. HABSBURG is a daily Internet discussion forum dedicated to the history and culture of the Habsburg Monarchy, its successor states, and their peoples from 1500 to the present. The primary purpose for HABSBURG is to enable scholars in history and related disciplines to communicate current research and research interests, stimulate discussion of approaches, methods and tools of analysis and circulate information on new articles, books, jobs/grants and resources. All languages are welcome.
Founded in October 1991, HABSBURG was the first Internet discussion group dedicated to an historical theme. We are affiliated with the Center for Austrian Studies, the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History, the Czechoslovak Studies Association, and the Hungarian Studies Association. We welcome any new members and encourage participation in HABSBURG activities. If you have any question or wish to become more involved, please get in touch with the editorial team.
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Dear fellow Habsburg subscribers,
ANN: Online book talk with Georg B. Michels (University of California) (May 5, 2022)
Dear colleagues,
The QhoD project (IHB, ÖAW) invites you to an online book talk with Georg B. Michels from the University of California, Riverside, Department of History, about his book, The Habsburg Empire under Siege: Ottoman Expansion and Hungarian Revolt in the Age of Grand Vizir Ahmed Köprülü (1661-1676) (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021).
The talk will take place online via Zoom.
Date & Time: Thursday, May 5, 2022, 18:00 CEST (Vienna).
Registration is required for participation.
CfP: Central Europe Yearbook
Central Europe Yearbook
CONF: Modernization by the State and its Ecological Consequences in East-Central Europe (May 5-6, 2022)
Programme at a Glance
Detailed program and Registration Form at: https://ff.osu.eu/mosec2022/
(All times in Central European Time, CET)
5 May, THURSDAY
9.00—9.15
Welcome to sessions
9.15—10.30
Opening Keynote
“Tensions of Environmental State Making” Dr Richard Hölzl, Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Göttingen, Germany
10.30—10.45
BREAK
10.45—12.15
Session 1. Histories of Modernization and Industrialisation in East-Central Europe
PODCAST: Ágoston Berecz: Language and Identity in Late-Habsburg Hungary
In this episode, Ágoston Berecz, Research Fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, is in conversation with Alexander Maxwell (Victoria University of Wellington) on the increasingly fraught relationship between language, education and nation-building in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Kingdom of Hungary.
BLOG: Commemorating Philip III of Spain [1598-1621] and Sir John H. Elliot (1930-2022)
Since the last issue of Opera historica is dedicated to the era of the battle of White Mountain (Nov.
ANN: HIRA & hps.cesee online book Launch: Ukrainian Science between Empires, with Fabian Baumann, Iwona Dadej & Martin Rohde
HIRA&hps.cesee Book Launch: Ukrainian Science between Empires, with Fabian Baumann, Iwona Dadej & Martin Rohde. Thursday, April 28, 18:00-19:00 Vienna / 19:00-20:00 Kyiv / 12:00-13:00 New York
ARTICLE ALERT: The New German-speaking School of Balkankompetenzen
A chapter on the New German-speaking School of Balkankompetenzen is in print now, included in a regular issue of the journal!
Reminder: CONF: Biopolitics and Mass Gymnastics in the Modern History of East Central Europe
The international conference, generously supported by CEFRES, Czech Academy of Sciences, and Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies, deals with the links between mass gymnastics and biopolitics in the modern history of East Central Europe. In particular, the event focuses on the Sokol [Falcon], a nationalist mass gymnastics association. Founded in Bohemia in the 1860s, Sokol was modelled after the German nationalist gymnastics association Turnverein.
Pages
Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
John Deak
Deak on Miller and Morelon, 'Embers of Empire: Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918'
Paul B. Miller, Claire Morelon, eds. Embers of Empire: Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918. Austrian and Habsburg Studies, vol. 22. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. 366 pp. $135.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78920-022-5.
Reviewed by John Deak (University of Notre Dame) Published on HABSBURG (September, 2021) Commissioned by Jonathan Singerton (Universität Innsbruck)
Reviewer:
Marco Bresciani
Bresciani on Reill, 'The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire'
Dominique Kirchner Reill.
The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire.
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps. 312 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-24424-5. 
Reviewed by Marco Bresciani (Università degli Studi di Firenze) Published on HABSBURG (August, 2021) Commissioned by Jonathan Singerton (Universität Innsbruck)
Reviewer:
William D. Godsey
Godsey on Ingrao, 'The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815'
Charles W. Ingrao. The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815. New Approaches to European History Series. Third edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 324 pp. $33.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-108-71333-7; $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-49925-5.
Reviewed by William D. Godsey (Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences) Published on HABSBURG (February, 2021) Commissioned by Jonathan Singerton (Universität Innsbruck)
Reviewer:
Elias Knapp
Knapp on Prokosch, 'Das Alteste Burgerbuch Der Stadt Linz (1658-1707): Edition Und Auswertung (Quelleneditionen Des Instituts Fur Osterreichische Geschicht) (German Edition)'
Michael Prokosch.
Das Alteste Burgerbuch Der Stadt Linz (1658-1707): Edition Und Auswertung (Quelleneditionen Des Instituts Fur Osterreichische Geschicht) (German Edition).
Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2019. 308 pp.
EUR 50.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-205-20885-3.
Reviewer:
Alexander Vari
Vari on Hakkarainen, 'Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna' and Hödl, 'Entangled Entertainers: Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna'
Heidi Hakkarainen.
Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna.
Austrian and Habsburg Studies Series. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. Illustrations. viii + 279 pp.
$135.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78920-273-1. Klaus Hödl.
Entangled Entertainers: Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna.
Reviewer:
Balint Varga
Varga on Maxwell, 'Everyday Nationalism in Hungary: 1789-1867'
Alexander Maxwell. Everyday Nationalism in Hungary: 1789-1867. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. iv + 258 pp. $103.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-11-063411-2.
Reviewed by Balint Varga (Institute of History, Loránd Eötvös Research Network) Published on HABSBURG (October, 2020) Commissioned by Jonathan Singerton (Universität Innsbruck)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55687
Reviewer:
Charles Ingrao
Ingrao on Rákóczi II, 'Confessio Peccatoris, Memoirs'
Ferenc Rákóczi II.
Confessio Peccatoris, Memoirs.
Translated by Bernard Adams; with an afterword by Gábor Tüskés. Budapest: Corvina, 2019. 2 vols. 628 pp.
$69.99 (paper), ISBN 978-963-13-6564-1.
Reviewed by Charles Ingrao (Purdue University) Published on HABSBURG (June, 2020) Commissioned by Jonathan Singerton (Universität Innsbruck)
Reviewer:
Cathie Carmichael
Carmichael on Gerlach, 'The Economy of Ethnic Cleansing: The Transformation of the German-Czech Borderlands after World War II'
David W. Gerlach. The Economy of Ethnic Cleansing: The Transformation of the German-Czech Borderlands after World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 308 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-19619-3.
Reviewed by Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia) Published on HABSBURG (May, 2019) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Matei Costinescu
Costinescu on Livezeanu and Klimó, 'The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700'
Irina Livezeanu, Árpád von Klimó, eds. The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700. Routledge Histories Series. New York: Routledge, 2017. xvi + 522 pp. $245.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-58433-3.
Reviewed by Matei Costinescu (Independent Scholar) Published on HABSBURG (May, 2019) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Tim Kirk
Kirk on Haider, 'Wien 1918: Agonie der Kaiserstadt'
Edgard Haider. Wien 1918: Agonie der Kaiserstadt. Weimar, Germany: Boehlau Verlag, 2017. 418 pp. $37.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-205-20486-2.
Reviewed by Tim Kirk (Newcastle University) Published on HABSBURG (April, 2019) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev