Vienna A Cultural History

Name: Vienna A Cultural History
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ISBN: 9780195376074

ISBN-10: 0195376072

ISBN-13: 9780195376074

Edition: 2008

Authors: Nicholas Parsons

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From border garrison of the Roman Empire to magnificent Baroque seat of the Hapsburgs, Vienna's fortunes swung between survival and expansion. By the late nineteenth century it had become the western capital of the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, but the twentieth century saw it degraded to a 'hydrocephalus' cut off from its former economic hinterland. After the inglorious Nazi interlude, Vienna began the long climb back to the prosperous and cultivated city of 1.7 million inhabitants that it is today. Subjected to constant infusions of new, Vienna has both assimilated and resisted cultural influences from outside, creating its own sui generis culture.

Book details

List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/16/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 8.11" wide x 5.39" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Foreword




The Capua of Minds Vienna Preserved


the Palimpsest Vienna Liberata


Civic Pride and the Metropolis How to be Viennese Masters and Servants


a Tale of Cognitive Dissonance Love-Hate and Austromasochism Cliches and the Art of Self-Irony


Backing into the Future



The Spirit of Place Viennese Topography


Notes on Wienerisch and Wienerlieder


The Death Cult in Vienna


The Life of the Phaeacians



The Ages of the City


The Romans on the Danube Light at the End of the Tunnel


The Early Habsburgs Humanism, Refofrmation and Counter-Reformation Baroque Vienna


The Enlightenment in Vienna Biedermeier Vienna From Revolution to Ringstrasse


Fin-de-siecle Vienna Republics and Dictatorships Epilogue



Further Reading