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Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced
fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled
to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This
collection explores the various forms of violence these nations
confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the
region into a laboratory for state-building. Employing a bottom-up
approach to understanding everyday life, these studies trace the
contours of individual and mass violence in the interwar era while
illuminating their effects upon politics, intellectual
developments, and the arts.
Far from the battlefront, hundreds of thousands of workers toiled
in Bohemian factories over the course of World War I, and their
lives were inescapably shaped by the conflict. In particular, they
faced new and dramatic forms of material hardship that strained
social ties and placed in sharp relief the most mundane aspects of
daily life, such as when, what, and with whom to eat. This study
reconstructs the experience of the Bohemian working class during
the Great War through explorations of four basic spheres-food,
labor, gender, and protest-that comprise a fascinating case study
in early twentieth-century social history.
Far from the battlefront, hundreds of thousands of workers toiled
in Bohemian factories over the course of World War I, and their
lives were inescapably shaped by the conflict. In particular, they
faced new and dramatic forms of material hardship that strained
social ties and placed in sharp relief the most mundane aspects of
daily life, such as when, what, and with whom to eat. This study
reconstructs the experience of the Bohemian working class during
the Great War through explorations of four basic spheres-food,
labor, gender, and protest-that comprise a fascinating case study
in early twentieth-century social history.
Paths out of the Apocalypse uses violence as a prism through which
to investigate the profound social, cultural, and political changes
experienced by (post-) Habsburg Central Europe during and
immediately after the Great War. It compares attitudes toward, and
experiences and practices of, physical violence in the mostly
Czech-speaking territories of Bohemia and Moravia, the
German-speaking territories that would constitute the Republic of
Austria after 1918, and the mostly German-speaking region of South
Tyrol. Based on research in national and local archives and copious
secondary literature, the study argues that, in the context of
total war, physical violence became a predominant means of
conceptualizing and expressing social-political demands as well as
a means of demarcating various notions of community and belonging.
The authors apply an interdisciplinary understanding of violence
informed by sociological and psychological theories as well as by
rigorous empirical historiographical approach. First, they examine
the most severe kind of physical violence - murder - against the
backdrop of shifting scientific and media discourses during the war
and its immediate aftermath. Second, the authors use numerous cases
of collective violence, ranging from less serious everyday
conflicts to massive hunger demonstrations and riots, to unravel
its 'language', thus deciphering the attitudes and values shared
among an ever-growing group of perpetrators. Paths out of the
Apocalypse thus fundamentally rethinks some key topics currently
debated in the scholarship on early twentieth-century Central
Europe, the First World War, violence, nationalism, and modern
European comparative social and cultural history.
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