Austrian Identity and Modernity

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List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Austrian Identity and Modernity, Elana Shapira
Part I Modernity and the Challenge of Pluralism in the House of Austria
1. Austrian Identity and the Modern Life of Empire, Malachi Haim Hacohen
2. The Exners: A scientific elite, Its Ambivalent Modernism, and Their Cultural Identity, Michael Stoltzner and Veronika Hofer
3. Austrian Technology, Austrian Engineers? Transnational Aspects of Nationalism, Modernity, and Technology, Florian Bettel
4. Artist Carl Moll and the Idea of an Integrative Viennese Modernism as an Expression of a New Austrian Identity, Cornelia Cabuk
5. Design in the Service of the Nation: Berta Zuckerkandl and Gisela Urban and the Shaping of Austrian Public Womanhood, Elana Shapira
Part II Transformation of a Multiethnic Empire into a Democratic Nation State
6. Changing Terms of Modernity? From the Required Diversity of Habsburg Austrian Officers to the Desired Homogeneity of Republican Austrian officers, Tamara Scheer
7. Republic Celebrations, Workers' Costume Associations, 'Social Hiking,' and the Solidarity of Rafters. Red Vienna and the Austrian Alpine (Federal) States in the First Republic, Werner Michael Schwarz and Georg Spitaler
8. The Werkbund Movement in the Austrian States: National and Regional Identities in a Political Landscape, Antje Senarclens De Grancy
9. From the Alps to the Metropolis: The Faces of Interwar Austrian Expressionism, Julia Secklehner
Part III The Politics of Austrofascism and Nazism within the Discourses of Identity and Modernity
10. "Cultural Wars": Catholic Church, the Labor Movement and Fascism in Interwar Austria, Florian Wenninger
11. Faded Out: National Socialism in the Canon of Modernism. Josef Hoffmann and Oswald Haerdtl's Roles in the Context of National Socialist Policies in Vienna, Ingrid Holzschuh
12. Alfred Hrdlicka's Memorial against War and Fascism and Austrian Memory Culture, Tanja Schult and Diana I. Popescu
13. Fragmented Narratives: Jewish Women Cinema Owners, Restitution Cases, and the Fight against Antisemitism, Monika Kaczek
14. Fighting against Fascism and Patriarchy. The "World Movement against Racial Hatred and Human Misery" and the National and International Women Circles of Irene Harand in the 1930s and 1940s, Christian Klosch
Part IV The Legacy of Modernity in the Second Republic of Austria
15. The Dark Side of Modern Austrian Tourism: Vanishing Jewish Heritage in Velden since 1945, Dieter and Louise Hecht
16. Austrian Postwar Cinema between "Restoration" and "Modernism" 1945-1955, Ramon Reichert
17. On Slippery Foundations: A Reflection on Austrian Architecture after 1945, Monika Platzer
18. What is Austrian Music? The Creation and Discussion of National Music in Austria after 1918, Anita Mayer-Hirzberger
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