Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

9-1979

Abstract

The 1970s were an interesting and significant decade for the historiography of contemporary Austria. Among Austrian scholars, the tradition of Koalitionsgeschichtsschreihung, a reflection of the political and bureaucratic system Proporz which reigned in the 1950s and 1960s, began to break down. With the triumph of Social Democracy under Bruno Kreisky, fewer historians especially those of the "left" were willing to continue sharing in the orderly division of responsibility for the recent past. Moreover, some of the controversy aroused in Germany by Fritz Fischer's work began to invigorate Austrian historical studies. Both in Austria and abroad, historians became less inclined to treat Austria as a unique case, and increasingly interested in the Alpine state as a study in the general development of contemporary central Europe. The publication of Norbert Schausberger's Der Griff nach Osterreich in early 1978, the fortieth anniversary of the Anschluss, marked in some respects a milestone in this direction; it provides the opportunity to review a sampling of the more interesting recent literature, and to reflect, as well, on some general problems of conceptualizing contemporary Austrian history.

Publication Title

Central European History

Volume

12

Issue

3

First Page

297

Last Page

311

Required Publisher's Statement

Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association

Issue Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/i413237

Subjects - Names (LCNAF)

Schausberger, Norbert. Griff nach Österreich

Geographic Coverage

Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938; Austria--History--1918-1938

Genre/Form

reviews (documents)

Type

Text

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

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