The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border

Agendas, Actors, and Practices in Western Hungary/Burgenland after World War I

Hannes Grandits, Ibolya Murber, Katharina Tyran (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

258 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781805398646 (ISBN)

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A refreshing re-examination of the history of Austria and Hungary in the wake of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border refocuses attention on the contested region of Western Hungary/Burgenland, considering how the process of building state borders shaped the region’s political, cultural, and social dynamics.

The collapse of the Habsburg monarchy in the aftermath of World War I marked a foundational shift in the histories of Austria and Hungary. Previously part of the Habsburg’s Austro-Hungarian Empire, this event stripped the two new states of a long-established territorial order, triggering a controversial redrawing of their borders. Whilst scholarship often focuses on the role played by state actors in Vienna and Budapest, The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border refreshingly re-examines this event through investigating how processes of state and nation-building manifested within the contested region of Western Hungary and Burgenland. In doing so, this book innovatively resituates this border region within the larger context of post-Habsburg historical development taking place across Central Europe.

Hannes Grandits is Professor of Southeast European History at Humboldt University in Berlin.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Separation of Austria and Hungary after World War I: A Borderland Perspective

Hannes Grandits

Part I: Discussing, Implementing and Explaining a New Border (Region)

Chapter 1. The Role of Bolshevism and Anti-Bolshevism in the Struggle for Western Hungary and Burgenland

Ibolya Murber

Chapter 2. The Interallied Commission for the Delimitation of the Boundary between Austria and Hungary, and the New International Order in Austria

Michael Burri

Chapter 3. Graz Geographers at the Birth of Burgenland: Robert Sieger and Marian Sidaritsch

Ferenc Jankó

Part II: Surviving during (Post-) World War I Economic Disintegration and the Polarization of Class

Chapter 4. Surviving and Resisting the Wartime Order: Black-Market Economy in the Border Region of Wiener Neustadt during and after World War I

Sabine Schmitner-Laszakovits

Chapter 5. Polarization, Persistence and Political Mobilization of Class Belongings in Western Hungary /Burgenland after World War I (1919-22)

Hannes Grandits

Part III: Evolution of a New Elite Power Balance

Chapter 6. Petite-Bourgeois Local Revolutions? Post-Habsburg Transitions, Democratization, Local Elites, and the Place of Western-Hungary/Burgenland

Gábor Egry

Chapter 7. The Birth of Burgenland and the End of the Esterházy-Estate

Melinda Harlov-Csortán

Part IV: Post-Imperial Solidification of Ethnic Categories

Chapter 8. From Mosaic to Pigeonhole: Frames, Loyalties, and Policies among the Croatian Speaking Population in Former Western Hungary/Burgenland

Katharina Tyran

Chapter 9. The Romani and Jewish Population in Burgenland at the Beginning of the Inter-War Period

Ursula K. Mindler-Steiner

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.01.2025
Reihe/Serie	Austrian and Habsburg Studies
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index; 13 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
ISBN-13	9781805398646 / 9781805398646
Zustand	Neuware