Paths out of the Apocalypse: Physical Violence in the Fall and Renewal of Centra

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Paths out of the Apocalypse fundamentally rethinks some key debates in the scholarship on early 20th-century Central Europe, the First World War, violence, nationalism and modern European comparative social and cultural history, considering the population of the hinterland as an active subject that decisively shaped the outcomes of the war.

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Paths out of the Apocalypse uses violence as a prism through which to investigate the profound social, cultural, and political changes experienced by (post-) Habsburg Central Europe during and immediately after the Great War. It compares attitudes toward, and experiences and practices of, physical violence in the mostly Czech-speaking territories of Bohemia and Moravia, the German-speaking territories that would constitute the Republic of Austria after1918, and the mostly German-speaking region of South Tyrol. Based on research in national and local archives and copious secondary literature, the study argues that, in the context of total war, physical violencebecame a predominant means of conceptualizing and expressing social-political demands as well as a means of demarcating various notions of community and belonging. The authors apply an interdisciplinary understanding of violence informed by sociological and psychological theories as well as by rigorous empirical historiographical approach. First, they examine the most severe kind of physical violence - murder - against the backdrop of shifting scientific and media discourses during the war andits immediate aftermath. Second, the authors use numerous cases of collective violence, ranging from less serious everyday conflicts to massive hunger demonstrations and riots, to unravel its'language', thus deciphering the attitudes and values shared among an ever-growing group of perpetrators. Paths out of the Apocalypse thus fundamentally rethinks some key topics currently debated in the scholarship on early twentieth-century Central Europe, the First World War, violence, nationalism, and modern European comparative social and cultural history.

Author Biography

Ota Konrád is an Associate Professor of Modern History and Director of Modern History PhD Program at Charles University in Prague. He has worked on topics dealing with the history of the humanities, history of the foreign policy, history of WWI in Central Europe, the cultural history of violence, and contemporary Austrian history. He is the author of Geisteswissenschaften im Umbruch: Die Fächer Geschichte, Germanistik und Slawistikan der Deutschen Universität in Prag 1918-1945 (2020). Currently, he is working on a project supported by the Humboldt foundation about collective violence as a tool for reshaping national identities at the end of WWII in Europe,mainly in Czechoslovakia. Rudolf Kucera is Director of the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Associate Professor of Modern History at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Charles University in Prague. He was a visiting professor at the University of Vienna and is currently a permanent visiting professor at the University of Konstanz. He is the author of Rationed Life: Science, Everyday Life, and Working-Class Politics in the BohemianLands, 1914-1918 (2016).

Table of Contents

IntroductionPart I1: Uncle Rudolf2: Degenerates3: Seeking the truth4: Mental illness in court5: Poverty in court6: Improvising in court7: Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes8: Cannibals, poachers, and deserters9: Crime or politics10: That the president may long govern11: Ominous eaglesPART II12: Youths outside the house13: Prostitutes and workers14: Appeasement in the public square15: Fat ones, rich ones, Jews, and gendarmes16: The Russian hunter17: Disintegrating societies18: The wild west or a new republic?19: The victors and the vanquished20: A slapped factory owner21: Gallows and committess22: The wild east23: BlackshirtsConclusion

Review

Methodically, the book stands out as an ambitious interlacing of perspectives...consult this volume as a material-rich and stimulating special research on the history of violence in three historical areas of the dual monarchy. * Markus Pöhlmann, Journal of History *

Long Description

Paths out of the Apocalypse uses violence as a prism through which to investigate the profound social, cultural, and political changes experienced by (post-) Habsburg Central Europe during and immediately after the Great War. It compares attitudes toward, and experiences and practices of, physical violence in the mostly Czech-speaking territories of Bohemia and Moravia, the German-speaking territories that would constitute the Republic of Austria after 1918,and the mostly German-speaking region of South Tyrol. Based on research in national and local archives and copious secondary literature, the study argues that, in the context of total war, physical violence became a predominant means of conceptualizing and expressing social-political demands as well as ameans of demarcating various notions of community and belonging. The authors apply an interdisciplinary understanding of violence informed by sociological and psychological theories as well as by rigorous empirical historiographical approach. First, they examine the most severe kind of physical violence - murder - against the backdrop of shifting scientific and media discourses during the war and its immediate aftermath. Second, the authors use numerous cases of collective violence, rangingfrom less serious everyday conflicts to massive hunger demonstrations and riots, to unravel its 'language', thus deciphering the attitudes and values shared among an ever-growing group of perpetrators. Paths out of the Apocalypse thus fundamentally rethinks some key topics currently debated in thescholarship on early twentieth-century Central Europe, the First World War, violence, nationalism, and modern European comparative social and cultural history.

Feature

Provides hitherto non-existent comparisons of Czech, Austrian, and South Tyrol HistoryUses unexplored sources from central and local archivesDelivers a new perspective on the histories of the neglected masses suffering on the homefront of the First World WarProvides a complex picture of understanding and practices of violence and their role in the fall of the Habsburg monarchy and the subsequent renewal

Details ISBN0192896784 Author Ota Konrád Pages 368 Publisher Oxford University Press Series The Greater War Year 2022 ISBN-10 0192896784 ISBN-13 9780192896780 Format Hardcover Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Publication Date 2022-05-24 UK Release Date 2022-05-24 NZ Release Date 2022-05-24 Subtitle Physical Violence in the Fall and Renewal of Central Europe, 1914-1922 Illustrations 17 black and white figures/illustrations Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2022-08-03 DEWEY 303.609430904 We've got this

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