Author: Wilfried Loth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9786065261785
Category : Europe, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: Nicolae Paun
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783848713301
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Richard Nicolaus Graf von Coudenhove-Kalergi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Author: Michael Gehler
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3658368764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 737

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The articles of this comprehensive edited volume offer a multidisciplinary, global and comparative approach to the history of empires. They analyze their ends over a long spectrum of humankind’s history, ranging from Ancient History through Modern Times. As the main guiding question, every author of this volume scrutinizes the reasons for the decline, the erosion, and the implosion of individual empires. All contributions locate and highlight different factors that triggered or at least supported the ending or the implosion of empires. This overall question makes all the contributions to this volume comparable and allows to detect similarities, differences as well as inconsistencies of historical processes.

Author: Manfried Rauchensteiner
Publisher: Böhlau Wien
ISBN: 3205202724
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 589

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Every time that something happened in Austria after 1918, the country was under observation: as German-Austria, the First Republic, the Corporative State, the Alpine and Danubian Gaue of the Greater German Reich, the Second Republic – right up to the present day. People looked, heard and generally did not keep silent, and this has not changed. As though Austria were still the same testing ground for the end of the world that Karl Kraus described it as. A gripping and varied overview of Austrian history over the last 100 years.

Author: Kurt Richard Luther
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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This collection of essays looks back at the evolution of Austrian politics from occupation to independence, evaluates the development of Austria's national identity and political institutions, and looks forward to the impact on Austria of the end of the Cold War, and European Union membership.

Author: David Reynolds
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300105629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Although the Cold War is over, the writing of its history has only just begun. This book presents an analysis of the origins of the Cold War in the decade after the Second World War, discussing the development of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers and the reactions of the Western European states to the growing Soviet-American rivalry. Drawing on recently opened archives from the former Soviet Union as well as on existing research largely unavailable in English, distinguished authorities from each of the countries discussed provide new insight into the Cold War and into the Europe that has been molded by it. The book begins with an overview of United States Cold War policy after the war and a pioneering post-communist examination of Russian involvement. The next chapters focus on the other two members of the wartime alliance, Britain and France, for which the Cold War was interwoven with concerns such as the maintenance of empire and the continued fear of Germany. The book then examines the vanquished countries of World War II, Italy and Germany, who--particularly in the case of divided Germany--were struggling to recover their international status and come to terms with their past. The last part of the book considers how the small states--Benelux and Scandinavia--forged new groupings in the search for security, even though conflicts of national interest still persisted between them. The authors not only show the impact of superpower policies on each country but also reveal the many ways in which West European states were active participants in Cold War politics, trying to draw the Americans into Europe and shaping the blocs that emerged. The book sheds light on the European Community (in many ways a response to uneasiness about Germany) and on NATO, whose purpose was once described as keeping "the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down."

Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264067973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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This book examines the major moments punctuating OEEC history from the original offer of Marshall Aid in 1947 to the decision to create the OECD in 1960.

Author: G. Bischof
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230372317
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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At the height of the first Cold War in the early 1950s, the Western powers worried that occupied Austria might become 'Europe's Korea' and feared a Communist takeover. The Soviets exploited their occupation zone for maximum reparations. American economic aid guaranteed Austria's survival and economic reconstruction. Their military assistance turned Austria into a 'secret ally' of the West. Austrian diplomacy played a vital role in securing the Austrian treaty in bilateral negotiations with Stalin's successors in the Kremlin demonstrating the leverage of the weak in the Cold War.

Author: Wolfram Siemann
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067474392X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 929

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Wolfram Siemann tells a new story of Clemens von Metternich, the Austrian at the center of nineteenth-century European diplomacy. Known as a conservative and an uncompromising practitioner of realpolitik, in fact Metternich accommodated new ideas of liberalism and nationalism insofar as they served the goal of peace. And he promoted reform at home.