Central European Studies

Series Editor: Charles Ingrao

Associate Editor: Gary B. Cohen

Albania at War, 1939-1945

Analyzes the German occupation of Albania during World War II, rectifying a half century of amnesia and mythmaking by Marxist and nationalist histories and increasing understanding of the relationship between the Third Reich and wartime Albania.

The Ambivalence of Identity

Examines nation-building in Austria and uses the Austrian experience to explore the conceptual foundations of nationhood. 

Aristocratic Redoubt

A study of the nobility who served in the foreign office prior to World War I.  

The Army of Francis Joseph

Rothenberg's work in the first analytical, full, length study of the army of Francis Joseph throughout its history from 1815-1918. 

The City and the Crown

Spielman presents the role of the Habsburg court in the rise of Vienna during the early modem period.

Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918

Examines Austria's educational system, which he characterizes as one of the major accomplishments of government and civil society under the Habsburg Monarchy in its last decades.

Egon Erwin Kisch, the Raging Reporter

Egon Erwin Kisch (1885-1948) is widely regarded as one of the most outstanding journalists of the twentieth century.

The Falcon and the Eagle

Treadway's work is the first comprehensive study of Montenegro's relations with her Great-Power neighbors on the eve of WWI.

Governance and Grievance

Touches on various aspects of Habsburg domestic policy, focusing on how the rulers influenced and were influenced by developments in both Italian and German Tyrol, and how they used to advantage the competing regional interests.

In Quest and Crisis

Extensively researched both in published and archival sources, In Quest and Crisis  is the first biography of this colorful emperor to appear in any language since the eighteenth century.

The Naval Policy of Austria-Hungary, 1867-1918

This detailed study charts the uneven growth of the Austrian navy from its high point following Archduke Ferdinand Max's administration and the War of 1866 to its ultimate dissolution after World War 1.

Pietas Austriaca

Focuses on the relationship of Catholic religious practices and symbols to the House of Habsburg from the Counter or Catholic Reformation until the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914
Revised Edition

This book examines how one of Imperial Austria’s principal ethnic conflicts, that between Czechs and Germans, developed in one of the major cities during the era of industrialization and urban growth.

The Pomp and Politics of Patriotism: Imperial Celebrations in Habsburg, Austria(1848-1916)

This book examines the promotion and reception of the image of Franz Joseph (Habsburg emperor from 1848- 1916) as a symbol of common identity in the Austrian half of the Habsburg Monarchy (Cisleithania).

Regions in the History of Central Europe

The authors all highlight the complex problems of local identity and the centrality of culture in shaping notions of the region.

The Road to Romanian Independence

Using sources cuffed from little-known Romanian and other European archives and libraries, Kellogg convincingly explains why and how the powers interacted with one another and with Romania, and how Romanian political leaders responded to provocations and opportunities throughout the momentous passage to independent statehood.

Seize the Book, Jail the Author

Under the patronage of two south German nobles, Johann Lorenz Schmidt published an annotated translation of the Bible's opening books in 1735. The story of the controversy the work aroused and of its eventual suppression sheds light on many aspects of the eighteenth century, as well as the nature of censorship in our time.  

Staging the Past

By examining commemorative practices such as rituals, cults, celebrations, and statuary in the Hapsburg Empire and successor states, this book offers innovative approaches to questions on nationalism and nationalist movements.

State and Society in Early Modern Austria

Reexamines and sometimes debunks old views about the Habsburg Monarchy and provides insight into the current historical thinking on the early modern state. Moreover, this broad focus will help the reader understand the complex cultural heritage of the turbulent nationalities of East Central Europe.

The Vienna Coffeehouse Wits, 1890-1938

Writing about the theater, the cabaret, fellow artists and feuds, politics and war, the eight artists assembled here represent the finest of the "small form," the sketches and essays fostered in the atmosphere of the Vienna coffeehouse to capture the fleeting impressions of a rapidly changing world.