ISBN:
019504505X
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9780195045055
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1280523360
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9781280523366
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1429401427
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9781429401425
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiii, 273 p., [10] p. of plates)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Beyond nationalism
DDC:
306.2709436
Keywords:
Austria / Heer Officers
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History
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Austria Officers
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History
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Austria Officers
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History
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Austria-Hungary / Heer
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Sociology, Military Hungary
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Sociology, Military Austria
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Sociology, Military
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Sociology, Military
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Sociology, Military
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Sociology, Military
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Armed Forces ; Officers
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Sociology, Military
;
Officieren
;
Sociale situatie
;
History
;
Austria
;
Hungary
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Istvan Deak examines the Habsburg officer corps and the way in which it became the foremost preserver of the multi-ethnic Austro-Hungarian empire from the mid-nineteenth century to the empire's defeat in 1918. The officer corps was an important cohesive force in the empire, for it created a unified and loyal army from recruits representing all the different nationalities and ethnic groups of Austro-Hungary. The policies, character, social structure, and self-image of the Habsburg army have been neglected in the extensive literature on the origins of the First World War. Deak provides the most comprehensive social and cultural portrait to date of this important institution
Description / Table of Contents:
From the Turkish Wars to the Revolutions of 1848: An Early HistoryAbsolutism, Liberal Reform, and the Ideology of Preventive War: The Army Between 1850 and 1914 -- The Making of Future Officers -- Life in the Regiment -- From Payday to Payday -- Latter-Day Knights -- Marriage, Family, Sexual Ethics, and Crime -- Pensioners, Widows, and Orphans -- Nobles and Near-Nobles in the Officer Corps -- Religion, Nationality, Advanced Training, and Career -- The Officers in the Great War -- Epilogue Habsburg Officers in the Successor States and in the Second World War -- Appendix I: On Belles-Lettres, Memoirs, and Histories -- Appendix II: Place Names.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-259) and index. - Description based on print version record
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