Vienna and the fall of the Habsburg Empire : total war and everyday life in World War I

Vienna and the fall of the Habsburg Empire : total war and everyday life in World War I /

"Maureen Healy examines the collapse of the Habsburg Empire from the perspective of everyday life in the capital city. She argues that a striking feature of "total war" on the home front was the spread of a war mentality to the mundane sites of everyday life - streets, shops, schools,...

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Main Author: Healy, Maureen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Series:Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ; 17.
Subjects:
1900 - 1999
1900-1999
World War, 1914-1918 > Austria > Vienna.
World War, 1914-1918 > Social aspects > Austria > Vienna.
World War, 1914-1918 > Psychological aspects.
War and society > Austria > Vienna.
Total war.
Political science.
Psychological aspects.
Social aspects.
Social history.
War and society.
Eerste Wereldoorlog.
Psychologische aspecten.
Sociale aspecten.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Vienna (Austria) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Vienna (Austria) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Vienne (Autriche) > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Vienne (Autriche) > Administration > 20e siècle.
Austria > Vienna.
Austria > Vienna (Reichsgau)
Table of Contents:
  • Food and the politics of sacrifice
  • Entertainment, propaganda, and the Vienna war exhibition of 1916-17
  • Censorship, rumors, and denunciation : the crisis of "truth" on the home front
  • Sisterhood and citizenship : "Austria's women" in wartime Vienna
  • Mobilizing Austria's children for total war
  • The "fatherless society" : home-front men and imperial paternalism.

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