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Informationen zum Autor MAUREEN HEALY is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Oregon State University. She was the winner of the Fraenkel Prize from the Wiener Library and Institute of Contemporary History, London, 2000. Klappentext Collapse of the Habsburg Empire from the perspective of everyday life in the capital city. Zusammenfassung Maureen Healy examines the collapse of the Habsburg Empire from the perspective of everyday life in Vienna! the capital city. She argues that while Habsburg armies waged military campaigns on distant fronts! women! children! and 'left at home' men waged a protracted! socially devastating war against one another. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates; List of maps, figures and tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Politics and Representation: 1. Food and the politics of sacrifice; 2. Entertainment, propaganda and the Vienna War Exhibition of 1916-17; 3. Censorship, rumours and denunciation: the crisis of truth on the home front; Part II. State and Family: 4. Sisterhood and citizenship: 'Austria's women' in wartime Vienna; 5. Mobilizing Austria's children for total war; 6. The 'fatherless society': home-front men and imperial paternalism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
