Format:
1 online resource (xv, 303 pages)
ISBN:
9781003202202
,
1003202209
,
9781000461428
,
1000461424
,
9781000461404
,
1000461408
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in modern history
Content:
A brief history of relations between Vienna and Washingtons -- Mass migration from (old) Austria to the United States -- United States neutrality or no way back for Austrians -- Diplomatic feud or countdown to disaster (April 1917-October 1918) -- Paris 1919.
Content:
"Transatlantic Relations and the Great War explores the relations between the Danube Monarchy of Austria-Hungary and the modern US democracy and how that relationship developed over decades until it ended in a final rupture. As the First World War drew to a close in late 1918, the Mid-European Union was created to fill the vacuum in Central and Eastern Europe as the old Danube Monarchy of Austria-Hungary was falling apart. One year before, in December 1917, the United States had declared war on Austria-Hungary and, overnight, huge masses of immigrants from the Habsburg Empire became enemy aliens in the US. Offering a major deviation from traditional historiography, this book explains how the countdown of mostly diplomatic events in that fatal year 1918 could have taken an alternative course. In additional to providing a narrative account of Austrian-Hungarian relations with the US in the years leading up to the First World War, the author also demonstrates how an almost total ignorance of the affairs of the Dual Monarchy to be found in the U.S. and vice versa. This book is a fascinating and important resource for students and scholars interested in modern European and U.S. history, diplomatic relations, and war studies"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
The present book carried the working title "Endgame of the Antipodes" when the publisher justifiably requested the term “antipodes” to be omitted. And yet antipodes they were, the United States and Austria-Hungary until relations broke and the status of war erupted in 1917. The book provides a major deviation from traditional historiography. As the Great War turned out, it was up to America to decide its outcome... - Foreword
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032064086
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1032064080
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032064130
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1032064137
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bednar, Kurt, 1950 - Transatlantic relations and the Great War Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2022 ISBN 9781032064086
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032064130
Language:
English
Keywords:
Österreich-Ungarn
;
Internationale Migration
;
Außenpolitik
;
USA
;
Geschichte 1838-1918
;
Österreich-Ungarn
;
USA
;
Erster Weltkrieg
Author information:
Bednar, Kurt 1950-
