This bibliographic guide to the history of economic conditions in Central Europe assists in the examination of German-speaking Europe from the first efforts at economic growth and political unification through full industrialization and the disaster of war to the complexities of a region torn between competing economic and political systems. The materials included in this bibliography--monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, Festschriften, and journal articles--were selected from the holdings of a number of major European libraries. Individual chapters are devoted to the fields of agriculture, industry, business, commerce and finance. The chapters are subdivided first into the broadest subfields of economics, then by country, then by historical eras. Finally, regional and local histories are grouped first by state, then by province or canton.

A collection of prose fiction written in Austria and Austria-Hungary in the 19th century. Seen as a whole, the fiction of the region began the 19th century as romantic flights of fancy and left that century drenched in the depressing trivia of reality.

In London in 1827 Charles Sealsfield (Karl Postl) published this travel novel employing eye-witness accounts, history, and anecdote to expose the oppressive Austrian regime under Emperor Francis I and his Prime Minister Metternich. His political observations are supplemented and embellished by his many detailed descriptions of the fads and fancies of the age, anecdotes and court gossip surrounding major historical figures, as well as by his dry wit which all combine to produce an eminently readable and informative book. During his lifetime Charles Sealsfield was a mystery, an unknown in so far as his identity was concerned. As a young Austrian emigre, his first publications were colorful descriptions of the fledgling United States on the one hand and of the moribund Austrian Empire on the other. Within a few years he became widely celebrated as the author of popular fiction about the American West, considered by many to be superior to American-born authors such as James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving.