From contract to treaty: the legal transformation of the Spanish succession (1659-1713) [PDF]
, 2011 The problem of the Spanish Succession kept the European diplomatic system in suspense from 1659 until 1713. Statesmen and diplomats tackled the question. Their practical vision of the law is a necessary complement to legal doctrine. Louis XIV and Emperor
Dhondt, Frederik
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Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
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The Stranger in the Self. Hofmannsthal’s Relationship to Jewishness
European Journal of Life Writing, 2016 This articles examines Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s changing view on his own Jewish origins from a biographical perspective. In his youth Hofmannsthal not only repeatedly expressed sympathy for the Jews and their plights but also antipathy towards Roman ...
David Osterle
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Military newspapers and the Habsburg officers' ideology after 1868 [PDF]
, 2010 The Habsburg officer corps of the late nineteenth century played a significant role in sustaining the feudal anachronism of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Foster, I
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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Im „ Reich der Unbegreiflichkeiten"
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 1996 Structure and meaning of Austrian history has always been determined by the configuration of the state existing at the time historians were writing or in periods when historians rejected the form of the Austrian state, by an idealised version thereof ...
Gernot Heiss
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Foreign rule?: transnational, national, and local perspectives on Venice and Venetia within the “multinational” empire [PDF]
, 2014 The history of the Habsburg Empire in the post-Napoleonic era is frequently approached from the perspective of its various component nationalities. These were traditionally portrayed in the historiography as engaged in more-or-less open struggle with ...
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Transnational Nationalisms Reflections on Nationalism and Territory in Globalization
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Transnational practices redefine nationalism: a nonterritorial sense of belonging for groups and extraterritorial sovereignty for states. Territory is at the core of the analysis in both cases. For groups and communities' transnationalism leads to a new imagined community guided by an “imagined geography” that is not territorial.
Riva Kastoryano
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Nationalism, Myth and Reinterpretation of History: The Neglected Case of Interwar Yugoslavia [PDF]
, 2012 This article discusses and challenges some popular myths and perceptions about interwar Yugoslavia in post-socialist (and post-Yugoslav) Serbia. These include discourses that blame ‘others’ – ‘treacherous’ Croats and other non-Serbs, the ‘perfidious ...
Djokic, Dejan
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Enemy aliens, deportees, refugees: internment practices in the Habsburg Empire, 1914-1918 [PDF]
, 2014 This article explores both the historiography and history of civilian internment in the Habsburg Monarchy between 1914 and 1918, with particular emphasis on the Austrian half of the empire (Cisleithania).
Stibbe, Matthew
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