The Limits of Loyalty

Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84545-202-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 555 g

Reihe: Austrian and Habsburg Studies

The overwhelming majority of historical work on the late Habsburg Monarchy has focused primarily on national movements and ethnic conflicts, with the result that too little attention has been devoted to the state and ruling dynasty. This volume is the first of its kind to concentrate on attempts by the imperial government to generate a dynastic-oriented state patriotism in the multinational Habsburg Monarchy. It examines those forces in state and society which tended toward the promotion of state unity and loyalty towards the ruling house. These essays, all original contributions and written by an international group of historians, provide a critical examination of the phenomenon of “dynastic patriotism” and offer a richly nuanced treatment of the multinational empire in its final phase.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cole, Laurence

Unowsky, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Laurence Cole and Daniel L. Unowsky

Chapter 1. Patriotic and national myths: National consciousness and elementary school education in imperial Austria

Ernst Bruckmüller

Chapter 2. Military veterans and popular patriotism in imperial Austria, 1870—1914

Laurence Cole

Chapter 3. Emperor Joseph II in the Austrian imagination to 1914

Nancy M. Wingfield

Chapter 4. The flyspecks on Palivec’s portrait: Francis Joseph, the symbols of monarchy, and Czech popular loyalty

Hugh LeCaine Agnew

Chapter 5. Celebrating two emperors and a revolution: The public contest to represent the Polish and Ruthenian nations in 1880

Daniel L. Unowsky

Chapter 6. Empress Elisabeth as Hungarian queen: The uses of celebrity monarchism

Alice Freifeld

Chapter 7. State ritual and ritual parody: Croatian student protest and the limits of loyalty at the end of the nineteenth-century

Sarah Kent

Chapter 8. Collective identifications and Austro-Hungarian Jews (1914—1918): The contradictions and travails of Avigdor Hameiri

Alon Rachamimov

Chapter 9. Representing constitutional monarchy in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain, Germany, and Austria

Christiane Wolf

Afterword

R.J.W. Evans

Notes on contributors

Select bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Unowsky, Daniel
Daniel Unowsky received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is Associate Professor of History at the University of Memphis. He is the author of The Pomp and Politics of Patriotism: Imperial Celebrations in Habsburg Austria, 1848-1916 (2005).

Cole, Laurence
Laurence Cole is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Für Gott, Kaiser und Vaterland: Nationale Identität der deutschsprachigen Bevölkerung Tirols 1860–1914 (2000), and has recently edited Different Paths to the Nation: National and Regional Identities in Central Europe and Italy, 1830–1870 (2007). He is also co-editor of European History Quarterly.

Laurence Cole is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Für Gott, Kaiser und Vaterland: Nationale Identität der deutschsprachigen Bevölkerung Tirols 1860–1914 (2000), and has recently edited Different Paths to the Nation: National and Regional Identities in Central Europe and Italy, 1830–1870 (2007). He is also co-editor of European History Quarterly.