This is a systematised study of the social and intellectual history of Habsburg Austro-Hungary from mid-nineteenth to the first third of twentieth century. In the ‘New Babylon’ as Josephist empire presented itself, different languages and mores, patriarchy and modernism, aristocratic and mass culture paradoxically coexisted; philosophical concepts, economic and social theories were overthrown and created; a new language was born in literature, music, painting, architecture …
Built on primary sources, this encyclopedic work of the famous American historian W.M. Johnston brilliantly solves the task of analysing the Austrian Renaissance and its global impact on the cultural and intellectual state of world civilisation.
The Austrian Renaissance
An Intellectual and Social History of Austria-Hungary, 1848−1938
Johnston W. The Austrian Renaissance. An Intellectual and Social History of Austria-Hungary, 1848−1938. Translated from the English edition: William M. Johnston. The Austrian Mind. An Intellectual and Social History 1848−1938. — University of California Press, Berkeley. Los Angeles. London. 1972. — Moscow School of Political Studies, 2004. — 640 p.
