Habsburg home fronts during the Great War

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Acknowledgements

The editors thank Erwin A. Schmidl, Austrian National Defence Academy, for helping fund the workshop where these papers were first presented.

Notes

1. This comparative volume examines wartime mobilisation in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary. Contributors highlight the differing capacities of each to sustain “total war”: Horne, State, Society and Mobilization in Europe.

2. Rachamimov has regularly employed this term in recent academic presentations.

3. See, for example: Davis, Home Fires Burning; Winter and Robert, Capital Cities at War. Paris, London; and Healy’s paradigm-shifting study of the Viennese home front, Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire.

4. Healy, Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire, 122.

5. Cornwall, The Undermining of Austria-Hungary, 22–6.

6. Judson, The Habsburg Empire.

7. On the rivalry between local actors for the distribution of food and representation of local works see, for example: Kučera, Rationed Life, 12–56.

8. See Rachimimov’s monograph, POWs and the Great War, for a new approach to the study of Habsburg POW experience.

9. Todd, “The Soldier’s Wife Who Ran Away with the Russian.”

10. For example, Hämmerle, Heimat/Front.

11. On the use of imagery of medieval knights and the concept of chivalry during wartime, see Frantzen, Bloody Good.

12. Mosse, Fallen Soldiers and Winter, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning.

13. See for example the chapter on the pre-war Radetzky monuments: Cole, Military Culture and Popular Patriotism, 63–107.

14. On “ongoing conflicts and contested commemorations” in those parts of Habsburg Monarchy that became part of post-war Yugoslavia see: Newman, Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War, 147–84; Gerwarth, The Vanquished, 69–76; and Botz’s classic study, Gewalt in der Politik.