Vol. XXXV · 2004

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GENERAL

Arnbom, Marie-Theres. Friedmann, Gutmann, Lieben, Mandl, Strakosch. Fünf Familien-porträts aus Wien vor 1938. Vienna: Böhlau, 2002. Pp. 248, illus., tables.
Review by: Ian Reifowitz, SUNY—Empire State College

Bruckmüller, Ernst. Sozialgeschichte Österreichs. 2nd ed. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Ver-lag, 2001. Pp. 586, maps, tables.
Review by: James Van Horn Melton, Emory University

Buchmann, Bertrand Michael. Hof-Regierung-Stadtverwaltung. Wien als Sitz der österreichischen Zentralverwaltung von den Anfängen bis zum Untergang der Monarchie. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2002. Pp. 173, tables.
Review by: Steven Beller, The George Washington University

Bucur, Maria, and Nancy M. Wingfield, eds. Staging the Past: The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2001. Pp. 337, illus., maps.
Review by: Peter Haslinger, Collegium Carolinum Munich

Czaplicka, John, ed. Lviv: A City in the Crosscurrents of Culture. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 24. Cambridge: Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 2002. Pp. 342.
Review by: Alison Frank, University of Wisconsin—Madison

Fellner, Fritz. Geschichtsschreibung und nationale Identität. Probleme und Leistungen der österreichischen Geschichtswissenschaft. Vienna: Böhlau, 2002. Pp. 400, tables.
Review by Harry Ritter, Western Washington University

Gyáni, Gábor. Parlor and Kitchen: Housing and Domestic Culture in Budapest, 1870–1940. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2002. Pp. 281, illus., maps, tables.
Review by: Robert Nemes, Colgate University

Kaser, Karl. Macht und Erbe. Männerherrschaft, Besitz und Familie im östlichen Europa (1500–1900). Zur Kunde Südosteuropas, 30. Vienna: Böhlau, 2000. Pp. 343, maps.
Review by: Hermann Rebel, University of Arizona

King, Jeremy. Budweisers into Czechs and Germans: A Local History of Bohemian Politics, 1848–1948. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. 304, illus., maps.
Review by: Karl F. Bahm, University of Wisconsin—Superior

TO 1848

Blockmans, Wim. Emperor Charles V, 1500–1558. Trans. Isola van den Hoven-Vardon. London: Arnold, 2002. Pp. 193, maps, tables.
Review by: James D. Tracy, University of Minnesota

Bonazza, Marcello. Il fisco in una statualità divisa: Impero, principi e ceti in area trentino-tirolese nella prima età moderna. Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento Monografie, 35. Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, 2001. Pp. 530, tables.
Review by: Christopher Storrs, University of Dundee

Brown, A. Peter. The Symphonic Repertoire. Vol. 2. The First Golden Age of the Viennese Symphony: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. 716, illus., tables.
Review by: Janet K. Page, University of Memphis

Helmedach, Andreas. Das Verkehrssystem als Modernisierungsfaktor. Straßen, Post, Fuhrwesen und Reisen nach Triest und Fiume vom Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts bis zum Eisenbahnzeitalter. Südosteuropäische Arbeiten, 107. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2002. Pp. 549, illus., maps.
Review by: Gerhard Rosegger, Emeritus, Case Western Reserve University

Lutter, Christina. Politische Kommunikation an der Wende vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit. Die diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen der Republik Venedig und Maximiliam I. (1495–1508). Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, 34. Vienna: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1998. Pp. 262.
Review by: Paula Sutter Fichtner, Brooklyn, New York

Pörtner, Regina. The Counter-Reformation in Central Europe: Styria, 1580–1630. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. Pp. 311, maps.
Review by: Joseph F. Patrouch, Florida International University

Pühringer, Andrea. Contributionale, Oeconomicum und Politicum. Die Finanzen der landesfürstlichen Städte Nieder- und Oberösterreichs in der Frühneuzeit. Sozial- und Wirt-schaftshistorische Studien, 27. Munich: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2002. Pp. 318, illus., tables.
Review by: Andreas Weigl, University of Vienna

Wolff, Larry. Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. 408, illus.
Review by: Drago Roksandić, University of Zagreb

Zehetmayer, Roman. Kloster und Gericht. Die Entwicklung der klösterlichen Gerichtsrechte und Gerichtsbarkeit im 13. Jahrhundert unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Zisterze Zwettl. Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, 40. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2001. Pp. 184.
Review by: Charles R. Bowlus, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

1848-1914

Angelow, Jürgen. Kalkül und Prestige. Der Zweibund am Vorabend des Ersten Weltkrieges. Cologne: Böhlau, 2000. Pp. 530.
Review by: Franz Adlgasser, Salzburg and Vienna

Cornwall, Mark, ed. The Last Years of Austria-Hungary: A Multi-National Experiment in Early Twentieth-Century Europe. Rev. and exp. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002. Pp. 228, illus., maps, tables.
Review by: Claire Nolte, Manhattan College

Freifeld, Alice. Nationalism and the Crowd in Liberal Hungary, 1848–1914. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2000. Pp. 398, illus.
Review by: László Péter, University College London

Rachamimov, Alon. POWs and the Great War: Captives on the Eastern Front. The Legacy of the Great War. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2002. Pp. 259, illus., tables.
Review by: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, University of Tennessee

SINCE 1918

Bachinger, Karl, Felix Butscheck, Herbert Matis, and Dieter Stiefel. Abschied vom Schilling: Eine österreichische Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Graz: Verlag Styria, 2001. Pp. 352, tables.
Review by: Jürgen Nautz, University of Vienna

Gruner, Wolf. Zwangsarbeit und Verfolgung. Österreichische Juden im NS-Staat 1938–45. Der Nationalsozialismus und seine Folgen, 1. Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 2000. Pp. 356, illus., maps, tables.
Review by: Helga Embacher, University of Salzburg

Höbelt, Lothar. Defiant Populist: Jörg Haider and the Politics of Austria, 1986–2000. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2003. Pp. 280, illus., maps, tables.
Review by: Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans

Kenney, Padraic. A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. 341, illus., maps, tables.
Review by: John Connelly, University of California, Berkeley

Miller, Daniel E. Forging Political Compromise: Antonín Svehla and the Czechoslovak Republican Party, 1918–1933. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 1999. Pp. 323.
Review by: Catherine Albrecht, University of Baltimore

Raska, Francis Dostál. The Czechoslovak Exile Government in London and the Sudeten German Issue. Prague: The Karolinum Press, 2002. Pp. 241.
Review by: Bruce Berglund, Calvin College

Sluga, Glenda. The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border: Difference, Identity, and Sovereignty in Twentieth-Century Europe. SUNY Series in National Identities. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. Pp. 261, illus., maps.
Review by: Robert Minnich, University of Bergen

Steininger, Rolf, Günter Bischof, and Michael Gehler, eds. Austria in the Twentieth Century. Studies in Austrian and Central European History and Culture. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002. Pp. 369, illus., tables.
Review by: Jill Lewis, University of Wales Swansea