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"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 ...
Die Privatbibliothek Kaiser Franz’ I. von Österreich 1784-1835
(2011)
The former private library of Emperor Franz I (known today as "Habsburg-Iothringische Fideikommissbibliothek",
housed in the Austrian National Library) is an outstanding book and graphic collction due to both the considerable ...
Eduard Hanslick
(2011)
The present seventh volume of the new historical-critical complete edition of Eduard Hanslick's works contains texts of the years 1864 to 1865, which are for the most part contributions from the Vienna "Presse" and the ...
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 ...