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Rathkolb, Oliver

 
9781845456399: The Paradoxical Republic: Austria, 1945-2005
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ISBN 10 : 1845456394 ISBN 13 : 9781845456399
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2010

Synopsis

Austria, a small-state society with barely eight million inhabitants differs from the rest of Europe in that it displays various paradoxical developments in its political culture, social life, and economy. First, most Austrians are the descendents of immigrants from all parts of the Habsburg Monarchy due to intensive migration occurring before 1913. Yet contemporary election campaigns and domestic and international politics have been dominated by xenophobic anti-migration slogans, especially since 1989. Without migration, the country’s population would be in serious decline. Second, the Austrians have profited enormously from EU membership and EU enlargement but are stubbornly opposed to EU institutions, and there is little evidence of any EU hyphenated identities. Last, attitudes to historical events are equally contradictory: even though up to 600,000 Austrians were members of the Nazi Party, often holding prominent positions (Adolf Hitler himself), the German Reich has been regarded as solely responsible for the Holocaust. These and a number of other paradoxical perceptions are explored and interpreted in this fascinating and wide-ranging work by one of Austria’s leading historians.

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À propos de l'auteur

Oliver Rathkolb is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. He was Schumpeter Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and is member of the Academic Committee for the forthcoming House of European History, European Parliament. He has published widely on Austrian and European contemporary political and cultural history, international affairs and business history. He was founding co-editor of the quarterly Medien und Zeit (Media and Time) and is currently editor of the journal Zeitgeschichte (Contemporary History).

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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1845456394
ISBN 13 
9781845456399
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
316
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