{"id":46695,"date":"2025-05-23T19:56:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=46695"},"modified":"2025-05-23T20:07:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T20:07:45","slug":"the-disputed-austro-hungarian-border-agendas-actors-and-practices-in-western-hungary-burgenland-after-world-war-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=46695","title":{"rendered":"The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border: Agendas, Actors, and Practices in Western Hungary\/Burgenland after World War I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Upu\u0107ujemo na zbornik \u201eThe Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border\u201c (2025) koji \u0107e sigurno izazvati pozornost hrvatske historiografije zbog njezina interesa za Gradi\u0161\u0107e (Burgenland) i Gradi\u0161\u0107anske Hrvate. Pritom je, kao \u0161to se mo\u017ee vidjeti iz \u201eUvoda\u201c Hannesa Granditsa, rije\u010d o oslanjanju na nove pristupe kao \u0161to su, primjerice, \u201eEtnicitet bez grupa\u201c Rogersa Brubakera i \u201eZami\u0161ljene nezajednice: nacionalna ravnodu\u0161nost kao analiti\u010dka kategorija\u201c Tahre Zahre, koji su upravo prevedeni na hrvatski jezik u zborniku \u201eNadila\u017eenje nacionalne paradigme<\/a>. Od historiografskog nacionalizma do transnacionalnih pristupa\u201c (2025). Prilika je to da spomenemo i knjigu Aleksandra Horvata \u201eIdentiteti na periferiji. Izgradnja etni\u010dkog identiteta Bunjevaca i \u0160okaca u Vojvodini (1848-1941)\u201c (2020), koja se tako\u0111er nastojala osloniti na neke od razmjerno novijih pristupa u okviru studija nacionalizma. Zainteresirani za prikaze, kriti\u010dke osvrte ili polemi\u010dke priloge o tim knjigama mogu se javiti uredniku portala Historiografija.hr kako bismo poku\u0161ali osigurati recenzentske primjerke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border: Agendas, Actors, and Practices in Western Hungary\/Burgenland after World War I<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Hannes Grandits, Ibolya Murber, and Katharina Tyran<\/p>\n\n\n\n

258 pages, 13 ills., bibliog., index<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN  978-1-80539-864-6 $135.00\/\u00a3104.00 \/ Hb \/ Published (February 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[T]his book is an important, significant addition to the current scholarship on empire and post-imperial breakdown and transition, and on the Habsburg\/post-Habsburg history of borderlands.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Marco Bresciani<\/strong>, University of Florence<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a very convincing edited volume on the transformation of power from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the Austrian Republic after the First World War. Looking at one particular region, Burgenland, that was contested between two losers of the War, the book provides insight into macro- and micro-level decision making processes, changes in hierarchies and power relations between social, ethnic, political and religious groups inhabiting this border region.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Tim Buchen, Technische Universit\u00e4t Dresden<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Description<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s 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<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hannes Grandits <\/strong>is Professor of Southeast European History at Humboldt University in Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ibolya Murber<\/strong> is an Associate Professor of History at E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University in Budapest-Szombathely Her research interests include the Austrian-Hungarian relations in the 20th century and the history of democracy in Central Europe, and her recent publications include, Detours: The 20th<\/sup>-century history of the Austro-Hungarian State Border <\/em>(Kronosz, 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katharina Tyran<\/strong> 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 <\/em>(B\u00f6hlau, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction: The Separation of Austria and Hungary after World War I: A Borderland Perspective
Hannes Grandits<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part I: Discussing, Implementing and Explaining a New Border (Region)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 1. <\/strong>The Role of Bolshevism and Anti-Bolshevism in the Struggle for Western Hungary and Burgenland
Ibolya Murber<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 2. <\/strong>The Interallied Commission for the Delimitation of the Boundary between Austria and Hungary, and the New International Order in Austria
Michael Burri<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 3. <\/strong>Graz Geographers at the Birth of Burgenland: Robert Sieger and Marian Sidaritsch
Ferenc Jank\u00f3<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part II: Surviving during (Post-) World War I Economic Disintegration and the Polarization of Class<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 4.<\/strong> 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<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 5. <\/strong>Polarization, Persistence and Political Mobilization of Class Belongings in Western Hungary \/Burgenland after World War I (1919-22)
Hannes Grandits<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part III: Evolution of a New Elite Power Balance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 6.<\/strong> Petite-Bourgeois Local Revolutions? Post-Habsburg Transitions, Democratization, Local Elites, and the Place of Western-Hungary\/Burgenland
G\u00e1bor Egry<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 7. <\/strong>The Birth of Burgenland and the End of the Esterh\u00e1zy-Estate
Melinda Harlov-Csort\u00e1n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part IV: Post-Imperial Solidification of Ethnic Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 8. <\/strong>From Mosaic to Pigeonhole: Frames, Loyalties, and Policies among the Croatian Speaking Population in Former Western Hungary\/Burgenland
Katharina Tyran<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 9.<\/strong> The Romani and Jewish Population in Burgenland at the Beginning of the Inter-War Period
Ursula K. Mindler-Steiner<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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