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Chargement... Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I (2004)par Maureen Healy
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Maureen Healy examines the collapse of the Habsburg Empire from the perspective of everyday life in the capital city. She argues that a striking feature of 'total war' on the home front was the spread of a war mentality to the mundane sites of everyday life - streets, shops, schools, entertainment venues and apartment buildings. While Habsburg armies waged military campaigns on distant fronts, Viennese civilians (women, children, and men 'left at home') waged a protracted, socially devastating war against one another. Vienna's multi-ethnic population lived together in conditions of severe material shortage and faced near-starvation by 1917. The city fell into civilian mutiny before the state collapsed in 1918. Based on meticulous archival research, including citizens' letters to state authorities, the study offers a penetrating look at Habsburg citizenship by showing how ordinary women, men and children conceived of 'Austria' in the Empire's final years. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Further, in the process of literally engendering the social conflicts that engulfed Vienna, Healy makes note of how these domestic conflicts drove the dynamic of post-war Vienna. Besides the soldiers who were unable to achieve psychological demobilization, and who thus brought the violence of the front back home to their families and communities, there was also a civilian population that never had the chance to decompress from the impact of the war, with dire consequences for the post-Habsburg Austrian state. ( )