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Austria 1867-1955 connects the political history of German-speaking provinces of the Habsburg Empire before 1914 (Vienna and the Alpine Lands) with the history of the Austrian Republic that emerged in 1918. John W. Boyer presents the case of modern Austria as a fascinating example of democratic nation-building. The construction of an Austrian political nation began in 1867 under Habsburg Imperial auspices, with the German-speaking bourgeois Liberals defining the concept of a political people (Volk) and giving that Volk a constitution and a liberal legal and parliamentary order to protect their rights against the Crown. The decades that followed saw the administrative and judicial institution...
Includes Beilagen and Anhänge; Beilagen for 1869/70-1879/85 have title: Verhandlungen des Hauses der Abgeordneten des österreichischen Reichsrathes.
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A presentation of the work of the first President of Czechoslovakia who changed the course of history and influenced developments in Central Europe. The selections of his work follow his dramatic career and show him as a philosopher and a politician who inspired practical work and thinking.