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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ke-Chin Hsia (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University Bloomington)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.70cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 16.30cm Weight: 0.676kg ISBN: 9780197582374ISBN 10: 0197582370 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 21 December 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Government Poverty and Incentive Pensions in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 2 The Emergence of the War Welfare Field from Peace to War Chapter 3 A Social Offensive on the Home Front Chapter 4 The Last-Ditch Effort to Save the Monarchy Chapter 5 War Victims as a New Power Factor Chapter 6 A Republic with ""the Correct National and Social Sensibilities"" Chapter 7 ""The Public's Interest in Invalids Has Waned"" Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index"ReviewsAn exciting new interpretation of welfare practices in Habsburg Central Europe that spans the Imperial and Republican periods. Hsia's pioneering arguments demonstrate that innovative welfare practices rarely came solely from the state but developed as much from claims by socially diverse groups of actors and interest groups from below. Readers may be surprised to learn that in the multinational Habsburg empire, when it came to popular demands for welfare programs, nationalist concerns apparently took a back seat to more pressing social, economic, and regional interests. -- Pieter M. Judson, European University Institute An impressive, original study of the neglected history of the emergence of the Austrian welfare state out of World War I and its centrality to the transition from the elite Habsburg Empire to the cohesive, democratic Austrian Republic, permanently transforming its politics and culture, an experience more similar to other European states than is usually recognized. Thoroughly researched and accessibly written, it is a major contribution to the history of Austria and of European welfare states. -- Pat Thane, author of The Foundations of the Welfare State This meticulously researched study offers a new and compelling interpretation of wartime and postwar politics. Centering social welfare as an integral part of total war, Ke-Chin Hsia reconceptualizes links between imperial Austria and the postwar republic. He reveals continuities in late Habsburg and early republican welfare policies without defaulting to the nationalities prism. As such, the book is a pioneering 'next generation' work that extends the recent historiographical re-examination of the significance of 1918 in Austrian history. -- Maureen Healy, author of Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire Author InformationKe-Chin Hsia is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington and faculty affiliate with the Russian and East European Institute and the Institute for European Studies of Indiana University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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