The Real History Of Austria

Author : Peter Bubendorfer
Publisher : Peter Bubendorfer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real History of Austria written by Peter Bubendorfer and published by Peter Bubendorfer. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day when I was about 15 as I sat in my high school history class someone asked the teacher what the difference was between an Austrian and a German. “Nothing!” he snapped, “Austrians are just Germans. It’s the same thing.” I was aghast. I felt my whole world shift. How could anyone think an Austrian was a German? They were completely different, everyone knew that. Years later, after I had spent some time in Austria and got to know my family, I began to read academic books written in English about Austrian history and was astonished at how completely at variance they were with my own family’s experiences. All the books were written from an American or English academic perspective, many with a faint but perceptible undercurrent of hostility. I felt a lot of it to be factually wrong and misleading, and in some cases found the proof that that was so. I decided I had to tell Austria’s story as I saw it so I went back to original sources and started from scratch. And here it is.

Author : Peter Bubendorfer
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edelweiss - The Real History of Austria written by Peter Bubendorfer and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-06-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My father left Austria in 1956 determined to get as far away from Europe as possible, which happened to be New Zealand. Unlike most of the other Austrians who soon moved on to Australia, he stayed and married a local girl. Wanting his children to assimilate he refrained from speaking German, but still dressed us in traditional clothes. I was born only 15 years after the end of WW2 when memories were still raw, very raw, and seeing a little boy running around in lederhosen and making gun noises must have alarmed the good people of Dunedin, many of whom would have relatively recently been fighting my relatives. Eventually, I visited my Austrian family and saw something of Austria, and started to take an interest in its history, as I was aware that what was taught in schools and contained in history books written by academics from Oxford and Cambridge was very different to the history that Austrians knew. These books did not do Austria justice at all, and I felt that the country had a story that had not been told in the English-speaking world but needed to be. So, I decided to write my own history, largely bypassing academic literature and going back to the original historic documents, many of which are now available online as digital images. It seemed to me that the accounts of people who were alive to witness and record events were much more important and trustworthy than what a professor thought 200 years later. This meant I had to learn to read and translate old German script, which is not my first language, and is why it took me several years to write this book. I wanted to avoid the usual historians trap of simply reciting dates of battles and lists of Emperors and to try to discover some of the reason behind events. With regard to WW2, which is still a very touchy subject 80 years later, I have tried to be as open and honest about Austria's role as possible. I have also included the odd snippet about my family's involvement where this seemed appropriate. Due to recent events in Ukraine with some complications for Austria I have updated this book to a third edition. One of my occupations is geologist and so I couldn't help writing something about Austria's geological history. If you are not interested in this, and many aren't, you can skip ahead to around page 16. Please visit my author's page on Facebook!

Author : Ulrich E. Bach
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785331337
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tropics of Vienna written by Ulrich E. Bach and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a multinational federation where the capital of Vienna was unmistakably linked with its eastern periphery in a quasi-colonial arrangement that inevitably shaped the cultural and intellectual life of the Habsburg Empire. This was particularly evident in the era’s colonial utopian writing, and Tropics of Vienna blends literary criticism, cultural theory, and historical analysis to illuminate this curious genre. By analyzing the works of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Theodor Herzl, Joseph Roth, and other representative Austrian writers, it reveals a shared longing for alternative social and spatial configurations beyond the concept of the “nation-state” prevalent at the time.

Author : William Coxe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the House of Austria ... written by William Coxe and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Captivating History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781637163979
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book History of Austria written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric Solsten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781490408095
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Austria: a Country Study written by Eric Solsten and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is one in a continuing series of books prepared by Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army.

Author : Günter Bischof
Publisher : University of New Orleans Press
ISBN 13 : 9781608010264
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1914 Austria Hungary The Origins (Contemporary Austrian Studies, Vol 23) written by Günter Bischof and published by University of New Orleans Press. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past 100 years some of the greatest historians and political scientists of the twentieth century have picked apart, analyzed and reinterpreted this sequence of events taking place within a single month in July/early August 1914. The four years of fighting during World War I destroyed the international system put into place at the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 and led to the dissolution of some of the great old empires of Europe (Austrian-Hungarian, Ottomon, Russian). The 100th anniversary of the assassination of the Austrian successor to the throne Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo unleashed the series of events that unleashed World War I. The assassination in Sarajevo, the spark that set asunder the European powder keg, has been the focus of a veritable blizzard of commemorations, scholarly conferences and a new avalanche of publications dealing with this signal historical event that changed the world. Contemporary Austrian Studies would not miss the opportunity to make its contribution to these scholarly discourses by focusing on reassessing the Dual Monarchy's crucial role in the outbreak and the first year of the war, the military experience in the trenches, and the chaos on the homefront.

Author : Captivating History
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ISBN 13 : 9781637164099
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Austrian History written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Santopietro
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466870591
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Music Story written by Tom Santopietro and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 2, 1965, "The Sound of Music" was released in the United States and the love affair between moviegoers and the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was on. Rarely has a film captured the love and imagination of the moviegoing public in the way that "The Sound of Music" did as it blended history, music, Austrian location filming, heartfelt emotion and the yodeling of Julie Andrews into a monster hit. Now, Tom Santopietro has written the ultimate "Sound of Music" fan book with all the inside dope from behind the scenes stories of the filming in Austria and Hollywood to new interviews with Johannes von Trapp and others. Santopietro looks back at the real life story of Maria von Trapp, goes on to chronicle the sensational success of the Broadway musical, and recounts the story of the near cancellation of the film when the "Cleopatra" bankrupted 20th Century Fox. We all know that Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer played Maria and Captain Von Trapp, but who else had been considered? Tom Santopietro knows and will tell all while providing a historian's critical analysis of the careers of director Robert Wise and screenwriter Ernest Lehman, a look at the critical controversy which greeted the movie, the film's relationship to the turbulent 1960s and the super stardom which engulfed Julie Andrews. Tom Santopietro's "The Story of 'The Sound of Music'" is book for everyone who cherishes this American classic.

Author : Carl E. Schorske
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307814513
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fin-De-Siecle Vienna written by Carl E. Schorske and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. "Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsmen. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete." -- David A. Hollinger, History Book Club Review "Each of [the seven separate studies] can be read separately....Yet they are so artfully designed and integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the book's wholeness and the momentum of its argument." -- Gordon A. Craig, The New Republic "A profound work...on one of the most important chapters of modern intellectual history" -- H.R. Trevor-Roper, front page, The New York Times Book Review "Invaluable to the social and political historian...as well as to those more concerned with the arts" -- John Willett, The New York Review of Books "A work of original synthesis and scholarship. Engrossing." -- Newsweek