Robert Pyrah: 2 books
The Burgtheater and Austrian Identity
Theatre and Cultural Politics in Vienna, 1918-38
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"The collapse of the Habsburg monarchy in 1918 galvanized discussion about national identity in the new Republic of Austria. As Robert Pyrah shows in this thoroughly documented study, the complex identity politics of interwar Austria were played out in the theatres of Vienna, which enjoyed a...
Re-contextualising East Central European History
Nation, Culture and Minority Groups
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Twenty years after the fall of Communism, scholarship on East-Central Europe has adopted mainstream western methodologies, but remains preoccupied with a narrow range of themes. Nationalism, identity, fin- de-siecle art and culture, and revisionist historiography dominate the field to the detriment...