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
PRIZE: Center for Austrian Studies 2019 Dissertation Award--Deadline May 31, 2019
The Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota is holding its competition for the 2019 Center for Austrian Studies Dissertation Prize.
CFP: Deadline Approaching: Making the borders of contemporary Ukraine, April 20, 2019
Making the borders of contemporary Ukraine
CONF: VI International Forum for Doctoral Candidates in East European Art History (Berlin, May 3rd, 2019)
Chair of Art History of Eastern and East Central Europe, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Date: Berlin, May 3rd, 2019
Venue: Festsaal der Humboldt Graduate School Luisenstraße 56, 10115 Berlin
PROGRAM
09:00-09:15 Welcome
09:15-10:15
Deirdre M. Smith (Austin): Umjetnik radi: Stilinović, Šutej, and Trbuljak on Art, Work, and Life
Vera Otdelnova (Moscow): Moscow Union of Artists. Art and Politics in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s
10:15-10:30 Break
CfP: Central Europe: An Undergraduate Yearbook
Since our original call in October 2019, we have received a number of strong submissions, but we are looking for additional projects to round out our forthcoming first edition and generate content for future editions.
CFP: Die Schlacht am Weißen Berg 1620 als Weichenstellung für Zentraleuropa, Wien, Nov. 2020
Die Schlacht am Weißen Berg 1620 als Weichenstellung für Zentraleuropa
Akteure – Ereignisse – Entscheidungen – Folgen
Call for papers
Ort: Wien
Termin: 9. bis 11. November 2020
CFP: Migration, Exile, and Diaspora in Historical Perspective - Annual Undergraduate Conference, Budapest, August 2019
Central European University, Budapest, August 11-14
CONF: Designing Transformation: Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism, Vienna, May 16/17, 2019
Designing Transformation: Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism
International Symposium
University of Applied Arts Vienna, May 16-17, 2019
CfA: Habsburgs and Ottomans: intensive summer school of primary sources, July 22 – August 2, 2019, Vienna
Call for Applications
Habsburgs and Ottomans
Pages
Recent Reviews
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
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53044
Reviewer:
Aleksandra Witczak Haugstad
Witczak Haugstad on Trojanowska and Niżyńska and Czapliński, 'Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918'
Tamara Trojanowska, Joanna Niżyńska, Przemysław Czapliński. Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. 856 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4426-5018-3.
Reviewed by Aleksandra Witczak Haugstad (Research Council of Norway) Published on HABSBURG (April, 2019) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Roland Clark
Clark on Goldstein and Goldstein, 'The Holocaust in Croatia'
Ivo Goldstein, Slavko Goldstein. The Holocaust in Croatia. Russian and East European Studies Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. 736 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4451-5.
Reviewed by Roland Clark (University of Liverpool) Published on HABSBURG (March, 2019) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Alexey Miller
Miller on Hastings, 'Nationalism in Modern Europe: Politics, Identity, and Belonging since the French Revolution'
Derek Hastings. Nationalism in Modern Europe: Politics, Identity, and Belonging since the French Revolution. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. vii + 345 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4742-1339-4; $88.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4742-1338-7.
Reviewed by Alexey Miller (European University at St. Petersburg) Published on HABSBURG (September, 2018) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Günter J. Bischof
Bischof on Kuzmany and Garstenauer, 'Aufnahmeland Österreich: Über den Umgang mit Massenflucht seit dem 18. Jahrhundert'
Börries Kuzmany, Rita Garstenauer, eds. Aufnahmeland Österreich: Über den Umgang mit Massenflucht seit dem 18. Jahrhundert. Vienna: Mandelbaum Verlag, 2017. 262 pp. EUR 19.90 (paper), ISBN 978-3-85476-816-6.
Reviewed by Günter J. Bischof (University of New Orleans) Published on HABSBURG (August, 2018) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Mark Von Hagen
Von Hagen on Brogi Bercoff and Pavlyshyn and Plokhy, 'Ukraine and Europe: Cultural Encounters and Negotiations'
Giovanna Brogi Bercoff, Marko Pavlyshyn, Serhii Plokhy, ed. Ukraine and Europe: Cultural Encounters and Negotiations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. 480 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0090-0.
Reviewed by Mark Von Hagen (Arizona State University) Published on HABSBURG (June, 2018) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Dorothy Barenscott
Barenscott on Cuevas-Wolf and Poggi, 'Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary'
Cristina Cuevas-Wolf, Isotta Poggi, eds. Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2018. Illustrations. 160 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-60606-539-6.
Reviewed by Dorothy Barenscott (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) Published on HABSBURG (June, 2018) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
Reviewer:
Petru Szedlacsek
Szedlacsek on Török, 'Exploring Transylvania: Geographies of Knowledge and Entangled Histories in a Multiethnic Province, 1790-1918'
Borbála Zsuzsanna Török. Exploring Transylvania: Geographies of Knowledge and Entangled Histories in a Multiethnic Province, 1790-1918. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. 286 pp. $142.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-30304-1; $142.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-90-04-30305-8.
Reviewed by Petru Szedlacsek (Max Planck Institute for Human Development) Published on HABSBURG (May, 2018) Commissioned by Borislav Chernev
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