A Disintegrated Integration: The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (1848-1918)

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Level: 
Master's
CEU credits: 
4
ECTS credits: 
8
Academic year: 
2009/2010
Start and end dates: 
9 Jul 2009
Co-hosting Unit(s) [if applicable]: 
Department of History
Stream/Track/Specialization/Core Area: 
Ethnicity, Nations, Nationalism and Empires in History
CEU Instructor(s): 
András Gerő
Additional information: 
Method: Each week will have a main topic. For almost every week there are certain common readings that all students must read in preparation. After each lecture there will be a 30-minute period for questions, discussion and for the control of readings. The lecture and discussion will be followed by a presentation which has to be connected to the topic of the given week.
Assessment : 
Each student has to give a presentation. The detailed outline of the presentation has to be delivered to the other students before the presentation. Each student will be required to prepare a shorter midterm paper. The midterm paper will be written in the classroom. (I give three or four possible subjects and the students will choose one of them.) The final paper may treat a practical problem of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The subjects - after consultation with the instructor - will be choosen by the students. The final paper has to be written on the basis of student's research. The length should be 10-15 typed pages. The deadline is the last week of the lecture course. Evaluation: Class activity and presentation: 40% Midterm paper: 20% Final paper: 40%
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COURSE SCHEDULE AND READINGS

Required Books:
Robert A. Kann: A History of the Habsburg Empire 1526-1918. University of California Press.
Oscar Jaszi: The Dissolution ofHabsburg Monarchy. University of Chicago Press.
Carl E. Schorske: Fin de Siecle Vienna. Politics and Culture. New York, Vintage Book, 1981.

Recommended Books:
W.O. McCagg: Jews in the Habsburg Empire 1670-1918. Indiana University Press.
András Gerő: Modern Hungarian Society in the Making: An Unfinished Experience. Ceu-Press-Oxford University Press.
Peter Hanák: The Garden and the Workshop. Princeton University Press.

Course Schedule:

First Week: Introduction, geographical frames, terminology

Readings: Robert A. Kann: A History of the Habsburg Empire 1526-1918. University of California Press. Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, 1980. pp. 603-622. [savepdf]

Henry A. Kissinger: A World Restored: Metternich. Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace 1812-1822. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. Pp.144-174. [savepdf]


Second Week: National Awakening - Revolutions of 1848

Readings: Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities. Verso, London-New York. pp. 9-46; 67-112; 141-154; 187-206. [savepdf]
EJ. Hobsbawm: Nations and Nationalism. Programme. myth, reality.
Cambridge University Press, 1995. pp. 14-100. [savepdf]

Third Week: The Unified Empire (Gesamtstaat)

Reading: A.J.P. Taylor: The Habsburg Monarchy 1809-1918. A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary. Penguin Books in association with Hamish Hamilton, 1990. pp. 103-141. [ pdf]

Fourth Week: Francis Joseph - The Emperor and the King

Readings: Steven Beller: Francis Joseph. Longman, London and New York, 1996. pp.1-15. [savepdf]

Andras Gerő: Emperor Francis Joseph. King of Hungarians. Boulder-Columbia University Press, New York, 2001. pp. 169-232. [savepdf]

Fifth Week: The Compromise and the dual political structure

Readings: Taylor, pp. 141-152. [savepdf]

John W.Boyer: Political Radicalism in the late Vienna. Origins of the Christian Social Movement 1848-1897. The University of the Chicago Press. Chicago and London, 1995. pp. 1-39; 184-246. [savepdf]

Sixth Week: Midterm

Seventh Week: Problems of Modernisation

Readings: David E.Good: The economic rise of the Habsburg Empire. 1750-1914.  University of California Press. Berkely-Los Angeles-London, 1984. pp. 162-185; 237-256. [savepdf]
Oscar Jaszi: The Dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago and London, 1929. pp. 215-239. [savepdf]

Eighth Week: National ideas - new ideas

Readings: William M. Johnston: The Austrian Mind. An Intellectual and Social History 1848-1938. University of California Press. Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, 1983. pp.323-334. [savepdf]
Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin: Wittgenstein's Vienna. Simon and Schuster, 1973. pp. 33-66. [savepdf]

Ninth Week: Dual Monarchy - dual capitals: Vienna and Budapest.

Readings: Carl E. Schorske: Vienna. Politics and Culture. Vintage Books, New York, 1981. pp. 24-115. [savepdf]
Gabor Gyani: Identity and Urban Experience: Fin-deSiecIe Budapest.
Boulder-Colorado, 2004. pp.11-24. [savepdf]

Tenth Week: Jews in the Monarchy

Readings: William O.McCagg Jr.: A History of Habsburg Jews 1670-1918. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1997. pp.l06-226. [savepdf]
Steven Beller: Vienna and the Jews 1867-1938. A Cultural History.
Cambridge University Press, 1989. pp.11-42. [savepdf]

Eleventh Week: Modern and traditional forms of life

Readings: Peter Hanak: Urbanization and Civilization. Vienna and Budapest in the Ninetenth Century. In: The Garden and the Workshop. Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1998. pp.3-43. [savepdf]
John Lukacs: Budapest 1900. A Historical Portrait of a City and its Culture.  Weidenfeld and Nicholson, New York. pp. 67-107. [savepdf]

Twelth Week: The Collapse. Consequenses and Conclusions

Readings: Joseph Rotschild: East-Central Europe between the Two World Wars. University of Washington Press. Seattle and London, 1992. pp.3-26. [savepdf]
Ignac Romsics: The Dismantling of Historic Hungary: The Peace Treaty of Trianon 1920. Boulder, Colorado, 2002. pp. 53-74; 169-176. [savepdf]


Thirteenth Week: Discussion of final papers.