The collapse of the Habsburg monarchy in the aftermath of World War I marked a foundational shift in the histories of Austria and Hungary. Previously part of the Habsburg’s Austro-Hungarian Empire, this event stripped the two new states of a long-established territorial order, triggering a controversial redrawing of their borders. Whilst scholarship often focuses on the role played by state actors in Vienna and Budapest, The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border refreshingly re-examines this event through investigating how processes of state and nation-building manifested within the contested region of Western Hungary and Burgenland. In doing so, this book innovatively resituates this border region within the larger context of post-Habsburg historical development taking place across Central Europe.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Separation of Austria and Hungary after World War I: A Borderland Perspective
Hannes Grandits
Part I: Discussing, Implementing and Explaining a New Border (Region)
Chapter 1. The Role of Bolshevism and Anti-Bolshevism in the Struggle for Western Hungary and Burgenland
Ibolya Murber
Chapter 2. The Interallied Commission for the Delimitation of the Boundary between Austria and Hungary, and the New International Order in Austria
Michael Burri
Chapter 3. Graz Geographers at the Birth of Burgenland: Robert Sieger and Marian Sidaritsch
Ferenc Jankó
Part II: Surviving during (Post-) World War I Economic Disintegration and the Polarization of Class
Chapter 4. Surviving and Resisting the Wartime Order: Black-Market Economy in the Border Region of Wiener Neustadt during and after World War I
Sabine Schmitner-Laszakovits
Chapter 5. Polarization, Persistence and Political Mobilization of Class Belongings in Western Hungary /Burgenland after World War I (1919-22)
Hannes Grandits
Part III: Evolution of a New Elite Power Balance
Chapter 6. Petite-Bourgeois Local Revolutions? Post-Habsburg Transitions, Democratization, Local Elites, and the Place of Western-Hungary/Burgenland
Gábor Egry
Chapter 7. The Birth of Burgenland and the End of the Esterházy-Estate
Melinda Harlov-Csortán
Part IV: Post-Imperial Solidification of Ethnic Categories
Chapter 8. From Mosaic to Pigeonhole: Frames, Loyalties, and Policies among the Croatian Speaking Population in Former Western Hungary/Burgenland
Katharina Tyran
Chapter 9. The Romani and Jewish Population in Burgenland at the Beginning of the Inter-War Period
Ursula K. Mindler-Steiner
Index
Sobre o autor
Katharina Tyran is an Associate Professor of Slavic Philology at the University of Helsinki. Her research considers sociolinguistic topics with a focus on minoritized languages, linguistic landscape research, and writing. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume South Slavic Vienna: On the visibility and presence of South Slavic language and cultures in contemporary Vienna (Böhlau, 2022).
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