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Article: Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2006
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Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I. By Maureen Healy (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv plus 333 p. $75.00).
Scholarship on the social and cultural history of the Great War in Western Europe has proliferated in recent decades. Equivalent studies for central and eastern Europe have been less prevalent, although they are no less significant. The result has been not only the absence of this region from a broader European discourse on the First World War, but also a dearth of social history of the war in the historiography of this region. In this thus much-needed, ambitious, and remarkable study, ...