Paul Lendvai. Hungary: Between Democracy and Authoritarianism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 288 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-70322-2; ISBN 978-0-231-80092-1.
Reviewed by Robin Okey (University of Warwick) Published on HABSBURG (January, 2013) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Hungary’s Postcommunist Travails
Cynthia Paces. Prague Panoramas: National Memory and Sacred Space in the Twentieth Century. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. xv + 309 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-6035-5; $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4375-4.
Reviewed by Thomas Ort (Queens College, City University of New York) Published on HABSBURG (December, 2012) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
The Anti-Catholic Catholic State
Gerard Daniel Cohen. In War’s Wake: Europe’s Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. viii + 237 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-539968-4.Gregor Thum. Uprooted: How Breslau Became Wroclaw during the Century of Expulsions. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. xl + 508 pp.
Julie M. Johnson. The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2012. 368 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-55753-613-6.
Reviewed by Megan Brandow-Faller (City University of New York (Kingsborough)) Published on HABSBURG (November, 2012) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Bryan Cartledge. The Will to Survive: A History of Hungary. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 600 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-70224-9.
Reviewed by Gabor Vermes (Rutgers) Published on HABSBURG (November, 2012) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
How Hungary Survived Centuries of Adversity
Markus Koller. Eine Gesellschaft im Wandel: Die osmanische Herrschaft in Ungarn im 17. Jahrhundert (1606-1683). Stuttgart: Steiner, 2010. 226 pp. $58.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-515-09663-8.
Reviewed by Graeme Murdock (Trinity College, Dublin) Published on HABSBURG (October, 2012) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Igor Lukes. On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. XII, 279 S. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-516679-8.
Reviewed by Paul Kubricht (LeTourneau University) Published on HABSBURG (October, 2012) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Wolf D. Gruner. Der Deutsche Bund: 1815-1866. Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2010. 128 pp. EUR 8.95 (paper), ISBN 978-3-406-58795-5.Mark Hewitson. Nationalism in Germany, 1848-1866: Revolutionary Nation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xiii + 462 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4039-1329-6; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4039-1330-2.
Ladislav Cabada. Intellectuals and the Communist Idea: The Search for a New Way in Czech Lands from 1890 to 1938. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2010. xi + 209 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7391-4376-6.
Reviewed by Shawn E. Clybor (Utah State University) Published on HABSBURG (September, 2012) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Tara Zahra. The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe's Families after World War II. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. 320 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-04824-9.
Reviewed by Lynne Taylor (University of Waterloo) Published on HABSBURG (July, 2012) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Children: The Spoils of War
Hillary Hope Herzog. Vienna Is Different: Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin de Siècle to the Present. Austrian and Habsburg Studies Series. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. 308 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-85745-181-1.Hilde Spiel. Return to Vienna: A Journal.
Michael Elia Yonan. Empress Maria Theresa and the Politics of Habsburg Imperial Art. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. xiii + 226 pp. $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-271-03722-6.
Reviewed by Franz A. J. Szabo (University of Alberta) Published on HABSBURG (June, 2012) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Legitimizing Female Rule through Art
Petr A. Bílek, Vladimir Papoušek. Models of Representation in Czech Literary History. Boulder: Columbia University Press, 2010. 200 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-88033-680-2.
Reviewed by Rajendra Chitnis (University of Bristol) Published on HABSBURG (April, 2012) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Edward Timms. Taking Up the Torch: English Institutions, German Dialectics and Multicultural Commitments. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2011. Illustrations. xii + 315 pp. $74.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84519-385-0; $39.50 (paper), ISBN 978-1-84519-386-7.
Reviewed by John Warren (Oxford Brookes University) Published on HABSBURG (March, 2012) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Maria Todorova, ed. Remembering Communism: Genres of Representation. New York: Social Science Research Council, 2010. 450 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-9790772-6-5.Maria Todorova, Zsuzsa Gille, eds. Post-Communist Nostalgia. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. viii + 299 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84545-671-9.
