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Die synchronisierte Stadt
(2015)
The work at hand explores the successive chronometrisation of public space using the example of Viennas public clocks from the middle of the 19th century until today.The need for knowing the exact time steadily increased ...
Erica Tietze-Conrat, Tagebücher
(2015)
In her early diaries the art historian Erica Tietze-Conrat discribes her eventfull life in Vienna in the 1920ies, were she had been in touch with all the important art circles of the time..
In 1937 and 1938 her journals ...
Die Politik des Waldes
(2010)
The thesis deals with the question of why no international legally binding instrument for forest policy exists so far. The thesis shows that the problem definition presents a form of control for the decision making process ...
Gefangenschaft, Revolution, Heimkehr
(2003)
Up to the 1980s prisoners of war were hardly even mentioned in military history. Only in recent years have scientists acknowledged the importance of this topic. For their investigations some of them chose the First World ...
Wissenschafterinnen in und aus Österreich
(2002)
In the present bio - bibliographic collection the life and work of female scientists, working in Austria or being originally from Austria, have been the center of research. The temporal focus extends primarily from the ...
Die Modernisierung politischer Systeme
(2000)
Part one of the book discusses political systems of Developing Countries. It suggests that the concept of neopatrimonialism is becoming more and more important. Neopatrimonial systems are characterized by three components: ...
The First World War and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914-1918
(2014)
The origins of World War I were different and varied. But it was Austria-Hungary which unleashed the war. After more than four years the Habsburg Monarchy was defeated and ended as a failed state.
Anna Freud
(2014)
Brigitte Spreitzer makes Anna Freud’s literary texts fully accessible in this book for the first time. The detailed preface contextualises Anna Freud’s literary texts as paradigmatic sources, which are documenting the ...
Hanghaus 2 in Ephesos. Die Wohneinheit 6. Textband 1
(2014-05)
The Imperial Period Dwelling WE 6 of Terrace House 2 in Ephesus. Living invironment of a family of the town elite.
Rückkehr unerwünscht
(2014)
"Rückkehr unerwünscht" (Return Undesired) is the first systematic study on deportation in the Habsburg empire. The measures taken against protestants, deviants and losers in the modernisation process are both delineated ...
St. Christoph am Arlberg
(2005)
Based on the evaluation of extensive sources the book presents the history of an Alpine pass as a living space for many people. Whether it was merchants, grocers, pedlars, wagoners and sumplers, peasants, shepherds, wardens, ...
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 ...
Von Katterburg zu Schönbrunn
(2004)
In 1996, the Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn were inscribed on the World Heritage List. In inscribing Schönbrunn, the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO recognised that "the Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn in Vienna - ...
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 ...
Die gelehrte Korrespondenz der Brüder Pez, Text, Regesten, Kommentare, Band 2: 1716–1718, 1. 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 ...
Imago noctis
(2003)
For the first time in scholarly art history we can offer now a systematical overview on the representation of night in her manifold appearances and manifestations, attributes and connections covering the time from the ...
Von Herodas zu Elytis
(2012)
The monography includes ten studies, starting from the 3rd century B.C. and finishing in the 20th century.
Basic Questions of Tort Law from a Comparative Perspective
(2015)
The starting point for this project on the »Basic Questions of Tort Law« was the book written by Helmut Koziol, the »Basic Questions of Tort Law from a Germanic Perspective« (Sramek Verlag, 2012), a volume which presented ...
Eine Geschichte der Neugier
(2002)
My book deals for the first time comprehensively with the techniques (and methodologies) of socio-cultural research in pre-modern societies. Contrary to prevailing opinion, it holds that some form of empirical research in ...
Von der philosophisch-moralischen Erzählung zur modernen Novelle
(2004)
The treatise deals with the pre-history of the modern French novella, which has constituted a new paradigm of genre history within the field of short narrations since 1829. Contrary to claims that Mérimée's, Stendhal's, ...
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 ...
Protokolle des Ministerrates der Ersten Republik, Kabinett Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, Band 8 (4. Juni 1937 – 21. Februar 1938)
(2013)
With this volume, the Edition of the Minutes of the Meetings of the Schuschnigg Cabinet (July 29, 1934 to March 11, 1938) comes to a close. The edition of this essential source of Austrian history opens up new scientific ...
Sportdiktatur
(2008)
The intention of the book is to reduce the enormous Austrian research deficiency concerning the reappraisal of the sporting life during the NS-era. Therefore it will depict all sportive areas on the "Austrian" territory ...
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, ...
Die Korrespondenz Ferdinands I. Familienkorrespondenz Bd. 5: 1535 und 1536
(2015)
The main topics of the correspondence between Ferdinand I and his siblings Charles V and Mary of Hungary edited in this volume are Ferdinand's attempts to achieve peace with Johann Szapolyai in Hungary; the clashes with ...
Antike Malerei zwischen Lokalstil und Zeitstil, Textband
(2015)
Under the main theme “Ancient Painting between Local Style and Period Style”, 150 specialists from 16 nations dedicated themselves in September 2010 in Ephesus to the characteristics of period and/or local styles in ancient ...
Rasende Reporter
(2014)
The book deals with the genesis of modern photojournalism between 1890 an 1945
Katalog der Mittelalterlichen Handschriften in Salzburg, Katalogband
(2015)
The catalogue contains manuscript descriptions of smaller collections from the county of Salzburg, especially those, held at Salzburg City Archive (Archiv der Stadt Salzburg), Salzburg District Archive (Salzburger ...
Rationes decoris
(2012)
The core of the book consists in the coherent typological analysis of more than 200 Doric friezes from hellenistic Central Italy. By means of this data a typologically induced dating and historical evaluation for each ...
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, ...
Die kirchenslavische Übersetzung der Dioptra des Philippos Monotropos. Bd. 1
(2013)
This volume is dedicated to the Church Slavonic version of the Dioptra of Philippos Monotropos. It focuses on the transmission of the Slavonic text. Furthermore, a critical edition of the prefaces and the first book 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Antike Grabbauten in Noricum
(2001)
Most of the stone blocks left from roman time in the province of Noricum were initially part of funerary monuments. The aim of this book is to reconstruct the architectural form of these monumental tombs, to develope a ...
Wien und die jüdische Erfahrung 1900-1938
(2009)
The growing integration and participation of the Jewish population in politics, society, culture arts and religion shaped these spheres in Vienna during the time of the First Republic. Social dynamics of the young democracy, ...
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. ...
Frauen und Geschlechter
(2006)
This volume is an outcome of the FWF project P14853 "Ethnographie - Gender-Perspektive - Antikerezeption". The research project intended to connect ancient ethnography, gender studies and the running methodological debate. ...
Die Matrikel der Universität Wien, VII Band 1715/16 bis 1745/46
(2011)
The seventh volume of the Matriculation Book of the University of Vienna includes the period from 1715/16 to 1745/46. It represents the follow-up of the edition of the central student enrollments of the rectors of the ...
"Écrire un seul livre, sans cesse renouvelé"
(2006)
The study examines Jorge Semprun´s literary reflections on his experiences made in the concentration camp of Buchenwald in "Le grand voyage" (1963), "Quel beau dimanche!" (1980), "L´écriture ou la vie" (1994) and "Le mort ...
H. G. Adler (1910-1988)
(2009)
The result of my extensive research project is the first comprehensive study on the life and work of H. G. Adler, an important member of the circle around Elias and Veza Canetti, Erich Fried etc., whose ground-breaking ...
Trauerspiele mit Gesang und Tanz
(2010)
From 1890 until 1938 in Vienna, Jewish theatre was a lively and fascinating part of the theatrical scene. Yiddish operettas and melodramas, serious plays and so-called Jargonschwänke were staged. The widespread texts of ...
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 ...
Vergangenheit, die nicht vergeht
(2010)
The publication entitled "Vergangenheit, die nicht vergeht. Das Gedächtnis der Shoah in Frankreich seit 1945 im Medium Film" (A past, that doesn't pass. Holocaust Memory in France since 1945 in the Media Film) explores the ...
Das Wiener Klavier bis 1850
(2008)
The presented book, the amplified proceedings of the symposium "Das Wiener Klavier 1850", held at Neue Burg (Vienna) in 2003 combines as regards content recent organological and biographical research, answers questions ...
Der Rahmen der Rechtsgewohnheiten
(2009)
"The Frame of Legal Customs" ("Der Rahmen der Rechtsgewohnheiten") attempts to interchange results from two scientific disciplines, legal theory and legal history for the middle ages.
The first part describes the present ...
Kaiser Sigismund
(2012)
The present conference proceedings consist of 18 articles based on papers presented on 6th and 7th December 2007 at the international conference "Emperor Sigismund (†1437). Rulership in Practice, Charters and Rituals" at ...
Die Südbahn
(2006)
The present manuscript is intended to be part I of a publication in two volumes, which deals with the historic architecture in the region of "Semmering" in southern Lower Austria from the point of view of art history, ...
Ein Diener seiner Herren
(2002)
The biography of Gustavus G. Zertfi (1820-1892) is the first analytical introduction to the Habsburg secret service in the 1850s and 1860s through the case study of a secret agent. By strange coincidence, it is also a major ...
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 ...
Geschichte der italienischen Literatur in Österreich
(2012)
The present monograph focuses on the history of Italian literature and language in Austria's Habsburg past, covering the period from the Peace of Campoformido between Napoleon and Francis II in 1797 to the end of the ...
Acht Geschichten über die Integrationsgeschichte
(2011)
European integration represents a historically unprecedented and new form of a continent's peaceful unification. Therefore, historiography needs innovative theoretical concepts to illustrate this process appropriately; at ...
Schmerzengeld für Schock- und Trauerschäden
(2009)
The doctoral thesis is a comparing study of the Austrian, German, Swiss, England and French tort law,
also contains the Principles of the European Group of tort law and handle four major questions:
(1) Who are the close ...
Regesten Kaiser Friedrichs III. (1440-1493)
(2012)
As a result of the death of Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy and the marriage of his only daughter Mary to Maximilian, the heir of Emperor Frederick III, the economically and culturally prospering lands of Flanders and ...
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, ...
Brody
(2011)
Brody, a town today lying in Western Ukraine, became part of the Habsburg Empire following the First Partition of Poland in 1772. Until Austria-Hungary's collapse at the end of the First World War the town was right on the ...
"Adieu ihr lieben Schwarzen"
(2004)
Franz Mayr was "one of the most interesting of catholic missionaries in Southern Africa" states Professor Joy Brain ("University of Durban") in the foreword she wrote for this first edition of his writings. Mayr was born ...
Balkan und Naher Osten
(2011)
The Balkans and the Near East share millennia of a shared history, which stretches from sedentarization in early history to the 20th century. In the Neolithic period, in Mesopotamia and in the Balkans basic techniques and ...
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 ...