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Teaching the Empire - Education and State Loyalty in Late Habsburg Austria (Paperback)
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Teaching the Empire - Education and State Loyalty in Late Habsburg Austria (Paperback)
Series: Central European Studies
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Teaching the Empire explores how Habsburg Austria utilized
education to cultivate the patriotism of its people. Public schools
have been a tool for patriotic development in Europe and the United
States since their creation in the nineteenth century. On a basic
level, this civic education taught children about their state while
also articulating the common myths, heroes, and ideas that could
bind society together. For the most part historians have focused on
the development of civic education in nation-states like Germany,
France, and the United Kingdom. There has been an assumption that
the multinational Habsburg Monarchy did not, or could not, use
their public schools for this purpose. Teaching the Empire proves
this was not the case. Through a robust examination of the civic
education curriculum used in the schools of Habsburg from
1867-1914, Moore demonstrates that Austrian authorities attempted
to forge a layered identity rooted in loyalties to an individual's
home province, national group, and the empire itself. Far from
seeing nationalism as a zero-sum game, where increased nationalism
decreased loyalty to the state, officials felt that patriotism
could only be strong if regional and national identities were
equally strong. The hope was that this layered identity would
create a shared sense of belonging among populations that may not
share the same cultural or linguistic background. Austrian civic
education was part of every aspect of school life-from classroom
lessons to school events. This research revises long-standing
historical notions regarding civic education within Habsburg and
exposes the complexity of Austrian identity and civil society,
deservedly integrating the Habsburg Monarchy into the broader
discussion of the role of education in modern society.
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