The overwhelming majority of historical work on the late Habsburg Monarchy has focused primarily on national movements and ethnic conflicts, with the result that too little attention has been devoted ...to the state and ruling dynasty. This volume is the first of its kind to concentrate on attempts by the imperial government to generate a dynastic-oriented state patriotism in the multinational Habsburg Monarchy. It examines those forces in state and society which tended toward the promotion of state unity and loyalty towards the ruling house. These essays, all original contributions and written by an international group of historians, provide a critical examination of the phenomenon of “dynastic patriotism” and offer a richly nuanced treatment of the multinational empire in its final phase.
An illuminating history of state-building, nationalism, and bureaucracy, this book tells the story of how an international cohort of Austrian officials from Bohemia, Hungary, the Hapsburg ...Netherlands, Italy, and several German states administered Galicia from its annexation from Poland-Lithuania in 1772 until the beginning of Polish autonomy in 1867. Historian Iryna Vushko examines the interactions between these German-speaking bureaucrats and the local Galician population of Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews. She reveals how Enlightenment-inspired theories of modernity and supranational uniformity essentially backfired, ultimately bringing about results that starkly contradicted the original intentions and ideals of the imperial governors.
The Habsburg Monarchy ruled over approximately one-third of Europe for almost 150 years. Previous books on the Habsburg Empire emphasize its slow decline in the face of the growth of neighboring ...nation-states. John Deak, instead, argues that the state was not in eternal decline, but actively sought not only to adapt, but also to modernize and build.
Deak has spent years mastering the structure and practices of the Austrian public administration and has immersed himself in the minutiae of its codes, reforms, political maneuverings, and culture. He demonstrates how an early modern empire made up of disparate lands connected solely by the feudal ties of a ruling family was transformed into a relatively unitary, modern, semi-centralized bureaucratic continental empire. This process was only derailed by the state of emergency that accompanied the First World War. Consequently, Deak provides the reader with a new appreciation for the evolving architecture of one of Europe's Great Powers in the long nineteenth century.
In "The Turk" in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923) , Jitka
Malečková describes Czechs' views of the Turks in the last half
century of the existence of the Ottoman Empire and how they were
influenced ...by ideas and trends in other countries, including the
European fascination with the Orient, images of "the Turk,"
contemporary scholarship, and racial theories. The Czechs were not
free from colonial ambitions either, as their attitude to
Bosnia-Herzegovina demonstrates, but their viewpoint was different
from that found in imperial states and among the peoples who had
experienced Ottoman rule. The book convincingly shows that the
Czechs mainly viewed the Turks through the lenses of nationalism
and Pan-Slavism - in solidarity with the Slavs fighting against
Ottoman rule.
"Combining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyzes ...the practice of scholarly migration and its lasting influence on the intellectual output in the Austrian part of the Habsburg Empire. The Habsburg Empire and its successor states were home to developments that shaped Central Europe's scholarship well into the twentieth century. Universities became centers of both state- and nation-building, as well as of confessional resistance, placing scholars if not in conflict, then certainly at odds with the neutral international orientation of academe.
A stealth war on the NHS? Clarke, Rachel
The Lancet (British edition),
01/2020, Letnik:
395, Številka:
10219
Journal Article
Recenzirano
...the problems facing the NHS are more complex than Pilger allows. The NHS is under pressure from multiple other quarters too: a recruitment crisis, an exodus of existing staff, plummeting workforce ...morale, a decade of inadequate funding, insufficient progress on integrating health and social care, and the rising demands of an ageing population with multiple comorbidities, to name but a few. ...they burst out of a body they have devoured alive.
The article is devoted to the phenomenon of the English musical renaissance, little studied in Russian musicology — a movement under which presently the formation of the British national ...compositional school of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries is comprehended. The author turns to the musical heritage of the leading composers of that period — Alexander MacKenzie, Hubert Parry, Charles Stanford and Sir Edward Elgar — with the aim of demonstrating the sources of the English musical renaissance and determining, what significance was exerted by the choral heritage by its main representatives on the subsequent evolution of choral music in Great Britain. Among the chief factors which influenced the English musical renaissance, the following are highlighted: the development of the choral festival movement, the establishment of the Royal College of Music, the directedness of the British professional education on the formation of the national school of composition, as well as Parry’s and Stanford’s active work in musical criticism and research. The peculiarities of the choral writing of each of the aforementioned composers are analyzed on the example of the most well-known works in the genres of the cantata and the oratorio. The author brings to light the general tendencies in the organization of the choral texture and timbre and the unique techniques the discovery of which is capable of making adjustments to the existent perceptions about the evolution of the choral music of the early 20th century. In particular, study of Elgar’s choral works makes it possible to confirm the composer’s interest in the textural and timbral techniques typical for the composers of the first and the second avant-garde in Europe, such as diagonal texture and non-standard unisons. The author’s conclusions make it possible to form a perception of the works by the composers of the “first renaissance trio” (Parry, Stanford, MacKenzie) and their younger contemporary Elgar as the greatest impulse of the formation of 20th century British choral music, which in the second half of the century became among the most on demand in world performance.
The centrality of music to German culture, as well as social and political life, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is undeniable; therefore, examining music as a cultural text can provide ...valuable insight into constructions of German identity, particularly in times and places in which the definition of "Germanness" was at issue. Here aesthetic immersion, erotic self-expression, and fluidity of identity reach something of an apogee, fueled crucially by the power of a compelling soundtrack of electronic dance music. By means of direct involvement, interviews with participants, and analysis of social media content and other ephemeral sources of meaning, Garcia had access to the experiences he recounts in ways unavailable to historically more distant topics, and this lends his account an unusually vivid character.
Combining history of science and a history ofuniversities with the new imperial history, Universitiesin Imperial Austria 1848-1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyses the ...practice of scholarly migration and its lasting influence on the intellectual output in the Austrian part of the Habsburg Empire.
