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Das materielle Computerstrafrecht
(2016)
The aims of the present study are to describe the modern forms of cybercrime and analyze the substantive computer-specific offences of the Austrian Penal Code by the means of specialist literature and – as available – ...
Islamische Stammesgesellschaften
(2004)
This book is the first comprehensive study in German on tribal identity in the Middle East. It includes a comparative and theoretical survey of Muslim tribal societies and a detailed empirical case-study. A separate identity ...
Oskar Kokoschka
(2003)
Result of our research is a monographic study dealing with a prominent part of Kokoschka's life and work which has hitherto been regarded too little by scholars. The years of his exile in Prague and particularly in London, ...
Stadtpalais und Belvedere des Prinzen Eugen
(2004)
Prince Eugene of Savoy, contemporary and companion in arms of the first Duke of Marlborough, was the architectural patron of two of the most important buildings of the Viennese baroque, viz. the Stadtpalais (city mansion) ...
Re-Reading Hanslick’s Aesthetics
(2019)
This study examines the reception of Eduard Hanslick in Anglo-american discourse from its earliest instances in the 19th century up to analytical philosophy of music. This book thus analyzes primarily the discoursive ...
Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Österreich, Band 4: 1387-1404
(2018-10)
The remarkably high number of medieval sources on the history of Austrian Jews provide insights into the economic, legal, and social standing of the Jews as well as into how the Christian environment treated them. The ...
Österreichisches Deutsch macht Schule
(2019)
The book at hand deals with the topics of language-internal multilingualism and linguistic variation, pluricentricity and Austrian German in the realm of school and education in Austria. A large empirical survey among ...
Ikonen der Nation
(2017)
The book icons of nations is dealing with the transformation processes in ex-Yugoslavia in the early 90s that is focussing on the national myths and their heroes and heroins in the region and their representation in visual ...
Am Rande der Fotografie
(2018-11)
Why is there a history of photography but no history of the photogram? The publication pursues this question by approaching the specific materiality, the scientific and artistic qualities of the photogram on the basis of ...
Bairisch-österreichische Dialektliteratur vor 1800
(2019)
These days, it is commonly forgotten that Bavarian-Austrian dialect art flourished in elite culture and even more in popular counterculture before 1800. The book makes the amazing variety of forms and modes of operation ...
Rasende Reporter
(2014)
The book deals with the genesis of modern photojournalism between 1890 an 1945
Viktor Franz Freiherr von Andrian-Werburg
(2011)
Viktor Franz Freiherr von Andrian-Werburg (1813-1858) was and still is primarily known as the author of Österreich und dessen Zukunft, the most important programmatic brochure of the estatist opposition in the late Vormärz. ...
Beiträge zur Theaterwissenschaft Südosteuropas und des mediterranen Raums
This is a volume of 12 studies on specific topics of theatre and drama history in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean. The scientific interest in the culture of this area during the unification process of Europe is ...
NATO, Neutrality and National Identity: the case of Austria and Hungary
(2003)
When the cold war was over, a vehement discussion of the new alternatives in security policy started in almost all former Warsaw-Pact States and in the neutral and nonaligned nations, Austria and Hungary among the latter. ...
Unteilbar und untrennbar?
(2010)
Focussing on the necessary renewal of the economic compromise of Cisleithania and Hungary in 1897, the beginning of the great "Crisis of the Dualism of the Habsburg Monarchy" will be examined. This work is based on the ...
Die dünnwandige Gebrauchskeramik vom Magdalensberg
(1975)
Excavations on the Magdalensberg in Carinthia, Southern Austria brought to light a large number of thinwalled pottery, Feinware, pareti sottili, parois fines, paredes finas. The finds from the 1948-1970 excavations mostly ...
Giottus Pictor
(2004)
Giotto is considered to be the artist who framed the transition from the art of the middle ages to that of the modern era. From the perspective of cultural history, one may say: He was among those who shaped the language ...
On the Jewish Legacy in Viennese Architecture
(2016)
A survey of the role played by jewish architects working in Vienna in the period between 1868-1938.
Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam
(2019)
Based on empirical research, this book focuses on the ambivalences and contraditions of eating in Vietnam. Against the background of an emerging consumer society and the globalisation of the agro-food system, eating becomes ...
A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty
(2015)
This book examines child poverty as a topic of social justice. The authors develop a theory of social justice for children based within the capability approach, apply it to the injustice of child poverty and propose a ...
Der lange Schatten des >Roten Oktober<
(2019)
The book focuses on the reception relations of Soviet Russian art, culture and literature in Austria from 1918 to 1938. It shows their resonance, locating it in discourses typical of the time such as activism, New Objectivity, ...
Reigen, Band 1
(2019)
Historical-critical edition of Arthur Schnitzler’s „Reigen.“ This edition presents a comprehensive preface analyzing above all the text genesis and the complex printing history, the manuscripts with transcriptions, a print ...
Prähistorische Textilkunst in Mitteleuropa
(2010)
The roots of our history as well as the history of the textile craft reach back to the "dark ages" without written sources, the millennia before the ancient civilisations. Textiles, textile production and clothing were ...
C’était bien à l’époque mais l’avenir iko sombre
(2025)
How can exploitative living and working conditions be remembered with nostalgia? This monograph offers an analysis of the specific form of the 'nostalgia-based master narrative' used by ex-mineworkers in Lubumbashi (DR ...
Das Beispiel der Obrigkeit ist der Spiegel des Unterhans
(2016)
This edition collects instructions, police ordinances, decrees and related normative sources concerning the economic activities of landlords and subjects of the estates Feldsberg (today Valtice in the Czech Republic) and ...
Religionsunterricht vor den Herausforderungen religiöser Pluralität
(2015)
This study examines the internal discourse on religious education (RE) at two secondary schools in Vienna using a qualitative empirical method. At these schools RE have reached their oraganisational limits. The study has ...
Bilderbuch-Heimkehr? Remigration im Kontext
(2017)
This publication addresses the topic of remigration – focussing on the return of exiles to Germany and Austria after 1945. The articles of this book explore the multidiscipli-nary field primarily from the point of view of ...
Das Kalenderhandbuch von 354 - Der Chronograph des Filocalus, Teil1
(2014)
The first coherent and handy edition with commentaries of one oft he most important sources for history, administration and religious mentalities of the city of Rome in the 4th century A.D.The collection of pictures, lists ...
Die Wunden des Staates
(2015)
The study’s subject is the assistance for the victims of World War I in Austria. It explains the numerous measures taken in favour of disabled veterans and war widows during the war and in the post-war period and describes ...
Der Natur und Kunst gewidmet
(2001)
The book is based on the research project „The Esterházy Landscape Garden in Eisenstadt“ funded by the Jubilee Fonds of the Austrian National Bank (no.5164) and was published with the aid of a printing subsidy granted by ...
Ethik und Moral im Wiener Kreis
(2014)
This monograph undertakes a long-overdue revision of the prevailing view on the role and conception of ethics and morality in the Vienna Circle. This view is rejected as being too partial and undifferentiated.
Visualisierungen von Kult
(2014)
“Visualizations of cult“ deals with the strategies of visual representations of cult as well as with concretisations of its visualization, in the perspective of historical and cultural studies. Cult is understood in a broad ...
Plataiai
(2013)
Plataiai, in SW-Boiotia, is famous above all for the events which took place in its vicinity in the autumn of 479 B.C. This victory of the Greeks over the Persian army, in concert with the Battle of Salamis, was an event ...
Adorno versus Lyotard
(2014)
It is well known that Theodor W. Adorno’s aesthetic theory is grounded in his profound musical knowledge. The importance of music for Jean-François Lyotard, however, has not been adequately recognized until today; neither ...
Musikalische Repertoires in Zentraleuropa (1420-1450)
(2014)
With famous music manuscripts such as the St Emmeram codex or the Trent codices and the rise of a musical elite with singer-composers around Dufay and Binchois, the years around 1430 belong to a crucial period in late-medieval ...
Das Kalenderhandbuch von 354 - Der Chronograph des Filocalus, Teil II
(2014)
The first coherent and handy edition with commentaries of one oft he most important sources for history, administration and religious mentalities of the city of Rome in the 4th century A.D.The collection of pictures, lists ...
Gegenstücke
(2015)
„Gegenstücke“ examines science communication as a cultural, social, and epistemic practice that is shaped by its historical contexts as well as its material and medial conditions. It is focusing mainly on two popular science ...
Fritz Saxl - Eine Biografie
(2013)
Aby Warburg (1866-1929), the celebrated Hamburg art historian, who broke new ground with his research into Renaissance art history, found in Fritz Saxl (1890-1948), art historian, head librarian and finally his successor ...
Rolf Geyling (1884-1952)
(2014)
This publication documents the life and work of the architect Rolf Geyling (1884-1952), who was a former student of Otto Wagner and started his career in Vienna and Bucharest before the First World War broke out. During ...
Kerne, Kooperation und Konkurrenz
(2014)
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, a new sub-field of physics and chemistry emerged centering on radioactivity. Its disciplinary structures were slow to crystallize. The early phase of this field was ...
Die Sprache
(2001)
Leonard Bloomfield's "Language" (1933) is one of the most important books on linguistics and it is also one of the most frequently quoted. It is very unusual that a scientific book that has been on the market for 67 years ...
Archäologische Forschungen in Teurnia
(2000)
The Claudian-era Municipium Teurnia, today's St. Peter in Holz, is situated four kilometers west of Spittal an der Drau (Carinthia, Austria). Along with Virunum, Celeia, luvavum and Aguntum, Teurnia counts as one of the ...
Die kaiserliche Gemäldegalerie und die Anfänge des öffentlichen Kunstmuseums, Band 1
(2014)
The publication focuses on the – for Europe - radical and influential new installation of the Imperial Picture Gallery in Vienna at the turn of the 19th century, a seminal time of change both for art-history and European ...
Spital als Lebensform, Band 1
(2015)
The voluminous publication edits 203 such items covering all of the Austrian territories from the Late Middle Ages to the 19th century. Hospital rules, instructions for hospital staff, job descriptions, special rules as, ...
Geschichte der Venezianischen Malerei, Band 4
(2015)
About a third of the present book deals with titian’s artistic entourage: Paris Bordone, Palma Vecchio and Bonifazio de’Pitati. And, on the other hand, artists as Lorenzo Lotto, Pordenone, Savoldo, proving to be more ...
Verwaltete Verwandtschaft
(2015)
This study analyses the phenomenon of marriages between kin in the various relevant discursive and conceptual, legal and political, administrative and bureaucratic, familial and household-organizational, sociocultural and ...
Soziologie in interdisziplinären Netzwerken
(2005)
Extensive considerations are imperative to address the increasingly urgent social and cultural issues that national societies encounter within the process of emergent global expansion. With respect to sociology, this ...
Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika
(2002)
Contemporary art of Africa reached a wider audience in the aftermath of the Magiciens de la Terre exhibition (Paris 1989). This study of fourteen artists from Ivory Coast and Benin is based on ethnographic fieldwork in ...
Elektrische Klangmaschinen
(2007)
The publication deals with the time of pioneers in building "electrical musical instruments" in German speaking countries. It is based on a research project funded by the Austrian National Bank's "Jubilaeumsfonds" (project ...
Im Nebel
(2002)
The relationship between the intellectual development of the young Georg Lukacs and the culture of Vienna around the turn of the century was investigated in the research project: Georg Lukacs and Vienna. Because of this ...
Geburten/Kontrolle
(2010)
The volume aims at a comprehensive historical reconstruction of policies, conflicts, attitudes, and regulations covering the diverse field of human reproduction. The analysis is based on two case studies: the United States ...
Die Rothschild'schen Gemäldesammlungen in Wien
(2006)
Emerging from the Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt, the Rothschilds took over in the world of banking in less than 50 years. In 1820, Salomon Rothschild came to Vienna to open a branch of the family banking house. His son Anselm ...
Die Matrikel der Wiener Rechtswissenschaftlichen Fakultät
(2011)
The first volume of the University of Vienna Matriculation Book of the Faculty of Law includes the period from 1402 to 1442. It represents the oldest record of the history of scholarly lawyers in the German language area, ...
Das soziale Erbe
(2000)
Within an exemplary case of one familiy this study investigates how cultural values and biographical orientations are transmitted from one generation to another. Therefore the phenomenon of social heritage is the main topic ...
Queer-Feminist Punk
(2015)
This history makes use of anti-social theory to take a broad and
multifaceted look at queer-feminist punk—from its origins in the
1980s to its contemporary influences on the Occupy movement
and Pussy Riot activism.
Unterwegs – Mobiles Leben in der Erdgas- und Erdölindustrie in Russlands Arktis
(2016)
Barely known in public is the life of long-distance commute workers who extract the „blue and black gold” for the export to Europe. They are travelling people who work and live rotationally for a few weeks at the extraction ...
Die gelehrte Korrespondenz der Brüder Pez, Text, Regesten, Kommentare, Band 2: 1716–1718, 2. Halbband
(2015)
This 1500-page volume contains the correspondence of the brothers Pez from 1716 lo 1718'. 557 letters , 256 of which have actually been preserved. These letters show the two
historians, and monks of Melk abbey, successfully ...
Heimatrecht und Staatsbürgerschaft österreichischer Juden
(2014)
The study describes the process of gradual inclusion of the Jews into the ‚Heimatrecht‘ and citizenship in the Austrian monarchy since the Josephine reforms. The stony path of integration of the Jews into general citizenship ...
Sprachatlas des Dolomitenladinischen und angrenzender Gebiete
(2012)
The first volume contains beside an Introduction (of 32 p.) 202 dialect maps which embrace dialectal terminologies from kinships names to moral categories.First map volume of a linguistic atlas with five map volumes and ...
Im Dienste des Ich
(2013)
This publication, which includes contributions from German, French and American academics, pays tribute to the multi faceted researcher Ernst Kris (1900 Vienna -1957 New York) from the perspective of different disciplines. ...
Die Freimaurer im Alten Preußen 1738–1806, Die Logen in Berlin
(2014)
"The Lodges in Berlin" is the first part of the trilogy "The Freemasons in Old Prussia" (p.2 " The Lodges between the Middle Oder and the Lower Rhine", and p.3 "The Lodges in Pomerania, Prussia and Silesia", published in ...
Das zusammengedrängte Gedenken
(2016)
In 1847, the Austrian painter Leopold Kupelwieser (1796-1862) was commissioned to execute a fresco cycle in the Ceremonial Hall of the Niederösterreichische Statthalterei (Lower Austrian Government Building, Vienna), ...
Grundfragen des Schadenersatzrechts aus rechtsvergleichender Sicht
(2014)
The volume contains the critical responses from the perspective of other legal systems to the propositions Helmut Koziol puts forward in 2012 in his book “Basic Questions of Tort Law from a Germanic Perspective”.
These ...
Historische Gärten Österreichs / Bd. 2
(2003)
In the year 1999 the project of the inventarisation of the historic gardens in Austria, financed by the Austrian Science Fund FWF was finished with the manuscript “Historic Gardens in Austria. Gardens and Parks from the ...
Hellenistische Häuser in Lousoi. Keramik und Kleinfunde aus den Grabungen 1983-1994
(2017)
Subject of the volume are the finds uncovered during the excavations of the ÖAI in the residential area „Phournoi“ of the ancient town of Lousoi in Northwest Arkadia. A short introduction to the architecture of the houses ...
Studium als Balanceakt
(2023)
Attische Sarkophage aus Ephesos
(2017)
The study of the Attic sarcophagi from Ephesos throws a light on the tectonics, the ornaments, the iconography and the stylistic development as a basis for a relative chronology of the genre on site. The results of this ...
Geschichte der venezianischen Malerei, Band 1
(2007)
The present manuscript is meant as volume I of a series of books comprising four volumes in total. Except for Hüttinger´s barely sufficient survey, its object, an overall presentation of Venetian painting from the early ...
Der sogenannte "Antiquus Austriacus" und weitere auctores antiquissimi
(2016)
Alongside analysing the oldest records of Roman inscriptions of Austria, this work particularly emphasizes the antiquarian-epigraphic collecting activity which can be noted in the area of Austria as a consequence of the ...
Die kaiserliche Gemäldegalerie und die Anfänge des öffentlichen Kunstmuseums, Band 2
(2014)
The publication focuses on the – for Europe - radical and influential new installation of the Imperial Picture Gallery in Vienna at the turn of the 19th century, a seminal time of change both for art-history and European ...
Der Opfermythos bei Elfriede Jelinek
(2017)
This paper presents a new, interdisciplinary method to adequately interpret Elfriede Jelinek’s texts, integrating contemporary historical theories of fascism, national-socialism and the Austrian victim myth into the exemplary ...
Franz von Ottenthal (1818–1899)
(2010)
Dr. Franz von Ottenthal served as a General Practitioner in Sand, in the South Tyrolean Tauferer Ahrntal from 1847 to 1899, over a period lasting more than 50 years. From 1861 until 1882, in a period of great regional and ...
Zum jüdischen Erbe in der Wiener Architektur
(2016)
A survey of the role played by jewish architects working in Vienna in the period between 1868-1938.
Liminalität und Adoleszenz
(2016)
Based upon the description of the psychoanalytic subtext in the work of Victor Turner, his concept of structure and antistructure is submitted to a fundamental revision.
Spital als Lebensform, Band 2
(2015)
The voluminous publication edits 203 such items covering all of the Austrian territories from the Late Middle Ages to the 19th century. Hospital rules, instructions for hospital staff, job descriptions, special rules as, ...
Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation Around 1900
(2024)
This open access book takes the biographical case of German feminist Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930), a multilingual translator, widely travelled writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a disputatious activist to examine the ...
Reconfiguring the Land of Israel
(2024)
This book is about ways in which the land of Israel, the homeland of the most paradigmatic of all diasporas, was envisioned in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the literature of the sages. It is about the Land ...
Administrating Kinship: Marriage Impediments and Dispensation Policies in the 18th and 19th Centuries
(2023)
From the late eighteenth century, more and more men and women wished to marry their cousins or in-laws. This aim was primarily linked to changes in marriage concepts, which were increasingly based on familiarity. Wealthy ...
Au-pair: Von der Kulturträgerin zum Dienstmädchen
(2008)
Since the 1970s, highly educated families in Austria have employed Au-pairs for taking care of their children. Why have these families preferred Au-pairs to kindergartens with qualified teachers? Were Au-pairs just a ...
Geschichtsraum Österreich
(2006)
The history is intended as the first comprehensive examination of the role of Austrian history in the visual arts of the Habsburg monarchy between 1804 and 1918. At its centre are the following three key questions: What ...