Some Recent Publications Concerning the Dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy

Fascist ideas, practices and networks of ‘Empire’: Rethinking Interwar Italy as post-Habsburg history (1918–1938)

“…Unlike traditional research, which considered 1918 as a true turning point or 'zero hour' for the newly proclaimed or expanded nation-states (Jaszi 1929), the defeat and collapse of Austria-Hungary represented an ambiguous caesura that was anything but clear-cut, and Italy was part of the successor states of the Empire. On the one hand, the Great War led to the annexation of the territories that the propaganda of the neo-Risorgimento called the 'Irredenta lands', the South Tyrol and the Adriatic Littoral, then Trentino-Alto Adige and Venezia Giulia; on the other hand, the Empire left a variety of legacies in the form of administrative practices and bodies, political and legal traditions, economic and commercial activities, and transport infrastructures such as ports and railroads that survived at the local level and continued to influence the post-Habsburg lands between the two World Wars.…”

“Prison of the Nations?” Union and Nationality in the United Kingdom, 1870–1925*

“…For Oszkár Jászi, famously, "the Austrian system was entirely incapable of establishing any kind of a popular state consciousness whereas the Hungarian civic education was overdoing Magyar national consciousness. " 30 Ultimately-in Jászi's argument-the dynastic patriotism of the Habsburg state proved to be "powerless against the popular enthusiasm of the exuberant national individualities, " including those at the heart of the Ausgleich. 31 The issue of British (and indeed Habsburg) identity was deeply intertwined with that of religious profession.…”

“…Just as Anglican Protestantism was promoted as the established church of the union state in the early nineteenth century, so the Roman Catholic Church was famously one of the most solid pillars of the Habsburg dynasty. 34 Indeed, the relationship between the dynasty and the Church was peculiarly and lastingly intimate. It has also been conventionally acknowledged that "it was their [Habsburg] task to uphold the true faith against the two threats of the infidel and heretic. "…”