Markian Prokopovych. Habsburg Lemberg: Architecture, Public Space and Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772-1914. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2008. 357 S. $49.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-55753-510-8.
Reviewed by Samuel D. Albert (Fashion Institute of Technology, New York) Published on HABSBURG (February, 2010) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Karen Painter. Symphonic Aspirations: German Music and Politics, 1900-1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. vi + 354 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-02661-2.
Reviewed by Stephen Thursby (Florida State University) Published on HABSBURG (January, 2010) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Jason Wittenberg. Crucibles of Political Loyalty: Church Institutions and Electoral Continuity in Hungary. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 314 pp. $88.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-84912-8.
Reviewed by James Bjork Published on HABSBURG (January, 2010) Commissioned by John C. Swanson
Passing It On: Religious Community and Partisan Continuity
Deborah R. Coen. Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xi + 380 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-11172-8.
Reviewed by Steven Beller (Independent Scholar) Published on HABSBURG (January, 2010) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Last Ländler in Brunnwinkl
Maria Rentetzi. Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th-Century Vienna. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xxiii + 279 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-13558-0.
Reviewed by Tatjana Buklijas (The Liggins Institute, University of Auckland) Published on HABSBURG (January, 2010) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
György Litván. A Twentieth-Century Prophet: Oscár Jászi, 1875-1957. New York: Central European University Press, 2006. 570 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-963-7326-42-4.
Reviewed by Matthew Lungerhausen (Winona State University) Published on HABSBURG (December, 2009) Commissioned by John C. Swanson
A Glass Half Full? The Life and Times of Oscar Jaszi
Solomon Wank. In the Twilight of Empire: Count Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal (1854-1912), Imperial Habsburg Patriot and Statesman, vol. 1, The Making of an Imperial Habsburg Statesman. Wien: Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2009. 292 pp. EUR 39.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-205-78352-7.
Reviewed by Samuel R. Williamson (Prof. of History Emeritus University of the South) Published on HABSBURG (December, 2009) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Tara Zahra. Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands 1900-1948. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xvii + 279 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-4628-3.
Reviewed by Gary Cohen (Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota) Published on HABSBURG (November, 2009) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Alison Rose. Jewish Women in Fin de Siècle Vienna. Jewish History, Life, and Culture Series. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. xi + 314 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-292-71861-6.
Reviewed by Megan Brandow-Faller (Georgetown University) Published on HABSBURG (November, 2009) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Fredrik Lindström. Empire and Identity: Biographies of the Austrian State Problem in the Late Habsburg Empire. Central European Studies Series. West Lafayette: Purdue University, 2008. 248 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-55753-464-4.
Reviewed by John Deak (University of Notre Dame) Published on HABSBURG (October, 2009) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Marietta Bearman, Charmian Brinson, Richard Dove, Anthony Grenville, Jennifer Taylor. Out of Austria: The Austrian Centre in London in World War II. London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2008. x + 269 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84511-475-6.
Reviewed by Lee Congdon (James Madison University) Published on HABSBURG (September, 2009) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francis. Under Eastern Eyes: A Comparative Introduction to East European Travel Writing on Europe. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2008. 388 S. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-963-9776-11-1.
Reviewed by Patrice M. Dabrowski Published on HABSBURG (September, 2009) Commissioned by John C. Swanson
Paul Reitter. The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-siècle Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xii + 254 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-70970-3.
Reviewed by Alison Rose (University of Rhode Island (Providence)) Published on HABSBURG (August, 2009) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Zvi Gitelman, ed. The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics: Bundism and Zionism in Eastern Europe. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. vii + 275 pp. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4188-0.
Reviewed by Alison Rose (University of Rhode Island (Providence)) Published on HABSBURG (June, 2009) Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
Franz Sz. Horváth. Zwischen Ablehnung und Anpassung: Politische Strategien der ungarischen Minderheitselite in Rumänien 1931-1940. Studia Hungarica Series. Munich: Verlag Ungarisches Institut, 2007. 446 pp. EUR 50 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-929906-63-9.
Reviewed by Stefan Dyroff (University of Berne, Department of History) Published on HABSBURG (March, 2009) Commissioned by Franz Adlgasser
