{"id":50572,"date":"2025-12-29T22:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=50572"},"modified":"2025-12-29T22:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:03:23","slug":"pieter-m-judson-and-tara-zahra-the-great-war-and-the-transformation-of-habsburg-central-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=50572","title":{"rendered":"Pieter M. Judson and Tara Zahra, &#8220;The Great War and the Transformation of Habsburg Central Europe&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Integrates the revisionist scholarship on the Habsburg Monarchy of the last thirty years with the insights gleaned from newer methodologies such as gender history, cultural history, the history of everyday life, and transnational, transimperial, and global history<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Emphasizes contingency and alternative possibilities, as opposed to the inevitability of Imperial collapse<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pays equal attention to the outer rings of the Empire &#8211; places like Silesia, Dalmatia, Galicia, Bukovina &#8211; as to its capital cities, integrating diverse regional experiences into a common, overarching narrative<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Highlights the transregional experiences of women, workers, and children to emphasize the close interconnections between the social and cultural history of the empire to its political, economic, and military history<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The world&#8217;s eyes were on Austria-Hungary on June 28, 1914. But both inside and outside of Austria, few could imagine the dramatic consequences of the events in Sarajevo. The popular shock and anger that greeted the assassination did not mean war was a likely or necessary outcome &#8211; or, moreover, that the Monarchy itself was destined to disintegrate.<br><br><em>The Great War and the Transformation of Habsburg Central Europe<\/em> examines how the First World War transformed the multinational Austro-Hungarian Monarchy into a fractured landscape of mistrust, scarcity, and dissolution and laid the foundation for the new postwar world. The outcome of the war is not, it argues, evidence of the inherent fragility of multinational polities, and Austria-Hungary was not inevitably doomed to collapse on the eve of the war. Instead, it contends that the Habsburg state laid the groundwork for its own dissolution by turning on its citizens. By imposing military rule, suspending civil rights, fostering suspicions among its citizens based on the languages they spoke, and failing to secure enough food to feed the population, the Habsburg state both created new and exacerbated existing regional, local, religious, and national antagonisms. Over time, severe hardships on the home front, in occupied territories, and in refugee and prisoner-of-war camps spurred widespread resentment and eroded loyalty to the monarchy. But even as the empire frayed, the war inspired innovative institutions, social welfare measures, and new understandings of citizenship that continued to influence postwar Europe.<br><br>By analyzing these experiences at multiple scales &#8211; local, imperial, and international &#8211; award-winning historians Pieter Judson and Tara Zahra here reframe the history of the late Habsburg Monarchy. Taking a deliberately broad chronology, they demonstrate that the war can no longer be treated as a mere postscript to Austria-Hungary&#8217;s biography. Instead, the war was a constitutive factor in the Empire&#8217;s dissolution, in the domestic relations that structured society in the successor states, and in the birth of the new world order institutionalized by the Paris Peace Conferences. Both the experience and outcome of the First World War in the Habsburg Monarchy held implications that extended far beyond its borders, and beyond the lives of its forty-eight million citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction<br>1:Why War? Austria-Hungary, Europe, the World, 1900-1914<br>2:Mobilizations<br>3:The Fortunes of War: Occupation Regimes<br>4:The Empire in Camps: Refugees &amp; POWS<br>5:Entitled Citizens: Empire, Citizenship, and the Welfare State<br>6:Revolutions<br>7:The Enduring Empire<br>Conclusion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pieter M. Judson<\/strong>, Professor of History, European University Institute Florence, and <strong>Tara Zahra<\/strong>, Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of History, University of Chicago<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pieter M. Judson has taught at the European University Institute in Florence from 2014-2024 and at Swarthmore College as Isaac Clothier Professor of History. Judson holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University (1987) and has authored several books on the history of Habsburg Central Europe. He has served as President of the Central European History Society of North America and as editor of the <em>Austrian History Yearbook<\/em>. He received fellowships from Guggenheim, Fulbright, the NEH, Marshall, the IFK (Vienna), the American Academy in Berlin, and Phi Beta Kappa. In 2010 the Austrian government awarded him the Karl von Vogelsang state prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tara Zahra is the Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of History and the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the transnational history of modern Europe, migration, the family, nationalism, globalization, and the history of dance. 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