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Eisenhower and the German POWs: Facts Against Falsehood
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Gunter Bischof (Editor), Professor Stephen E Ambrose (Editor)
In 1989, a Canadian publisher released a book that has since become the subject of enormous international controversy. James Bacque's Other Losses: An Investigation into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners of War at the Hands of the French and Americans After World War II asserts that General Dwight D. Eisenhower, as head of the American ...
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Eisenhower: A Centenary Assessment
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Gunter Bischof (Editor), Professor Stephen E Ambrose (Editor)
In observance of Dwight David Eisenhower's one-hundredth birthday in 1990, the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans sponsored a series of lectures by distinguished American and European scholars who espouse an exciting breadth of interpretation regarding the man and his times. In Eisenhower: A Centenary Assessment, Gunter Bischof and ...
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Sexuality in Austria: Contemporary Austrian Studies
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Gunter Bischof (Editor), Anton Pelinka (Editor), Dagmar Herzog (Editor)
Scholars have increasingly been investigating human sexuality as an important field of social history in particular national cultures. This volume examines both continuities and changing patterns of sexual behavior in Austria. "Sexuality in Austria" reflects the broad variety of such recent research. Maria Mesner surveys the growing number of sex ...
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The Pacific War Revisited
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Gunter Bischof (Editor), Robert L DuPont, M.D. (Editor)
In 1991, leading scholars met at the University of New Orleans' Eisenhower Center to confer on the war in the Pacific. This volume, based on the proceedings of that conference, reflects the great complexity and scope of the conflict. Rather than retread the familiar landscape of strategic and political issues, the nine commentaries presented here ...
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Cold War Respite: The Geneva Summit of 1955
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Gunter Bischof (Editor), Saki Dockrill (Editor)
At the midpoint of the "high" cold war, when most people in North America and Europe thought catastrophic nuclear onslaught was almost inevitable, an unprecedented and unrepeated event took place in Geneva in July 1955. The heads of state from the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, and France came together in an attempt at diplomatic ...
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Austria in the New Europe
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Anton Pelinka (Editor), Gunter Bischof (Editor), Gnter Bischof (Editor)
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The Kreisky Era in Austria
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Gunter Bischof (Editor), Anton Pelinka (Editor), Gnter Bischof (Editor)
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Austria in the Nineteen Fifties
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Gunter Bischof (Editor), Anton Pelinka (Editor), Gnter Bischof (Editor)
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Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity
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Gunter Bischof (Editor), Anton Pelinka (Editor), Gnter Bischof (Editor)
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The Changing Austrian Voter: Contemporary Austrian Studies
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Dr. Fritz Plasser (Editor), Gunter Bischof (Editor)
Compared to the late 1970s, when the Austrian voting behavior was characterized by extraordinary stability, low electoral volatility, and high turnout rates, the 1980s and 1990s stand for exceptional changes and ruptures elicited primarily by the rise of the right wing populist FPO (Freedom Party of Austria). This volume of collected papers ...
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Dollfuss / Schuschnigg Era in Austria V11
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Gunter Bischof (Editor), Alexander Lassner (Editor), Ga1/4nter Bischof (Editor)
The years of Chancellors Dollfuss and Schuschnigg's authoritarian governments (1933-1938) have been denounced as "Austrofascism" by the left and defended as a Christian corporate state by the right. Austria was in a desperate struggle to maintain its national independence from Hitler's Germany. In the end the Nazis invaded and annexed Austria. ...
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Austria in the European Union (Ppr) S#10
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Gunter Bischof (Editor), Anton Pelinka (Editor), Michael Gehler (Editor)
Since it joined the European Union in 1995 Austria has has experienced dramatic reversals in how it is viewed by other members of the Union. In 1998 it assumed its first presidency and its competent conduct enhanced its reputation. Then Jorg Haider formed a rightwing populist government and the other members of the Union levied sanctions. This ...
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Austria in the First Cold War 1945-55
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Gunter Bischof
In the first Cold War (1945-55) the superpower struggle over the geostrategically vital and economically depressed Austria could have ended in a divided country (like in Germany), but due to shrewd Austrian diplomacy resulted in a unified and neutralized country.
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Austro-Corporatism: Past, Present, Future
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Anton Pelinka (Editor), Gunter Bischof (Editor), Gnter Bischof (Editor)
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The Vranitzky Era in Austria
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Gunter Bischof (Editor), Ferdinand Karlhofer (Editor), Anton Pelinka (Editor)
Franz Vranitsky was chancellor of Austria from 1986 to 1996, a time when the world dramatically changed in the aftermath of the Cold War. This text aims to assess Vranitsky's central role in 20th century Austrian and European history.
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The Americanization/Westernization of Austria
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Gunter Bischof (Editor), Anton Pelinka (Editor), Ga1/4nter Bischof (Editor)
How Western are the Austrians? This is an analysis of trends toward Americanization and Westernization in Austria throughout the 20th century. The essays seek to demonstrate that "Americanization", "Westernization" and "globalization" need to be defined before generalizations can be made.
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Women in Austria
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Gunter Bischof (Editor), Erika Thurner (Editor), Anton Pelinka (Editor)
The position of women in Austrian society, politics, and in the economy follows the familiar trajectory of Western societies. They were expected to accept their "proper place" in a male patriarchal world. Achieving equality in all spheres of life was a long struggle that is still not completed in spite of many advances. The chapters in Women in ...
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Austrian Foreign Policy in Historical Context
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Gunter Bischof (Editor), Anton Pelinka (Editor), Michael Gehler (Editor)
In 2005, Austria celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of its liberation from the Nazi regime and the fiftieth anniversary of the State Treaty that ended the occupation and returned full sovereignty to the country. This volume of "Contemporary Austrian Studies" covers foreign policy in the twentieth century. It offers an up-to-date status report of ...
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Transatlantic Relations: Austria and Latin America in the 19th and 20th Centuries
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Klaus Eisterer (Editor), Gc Bischof (Editor), Gunter Bischof (Editor)
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Religion in Austria
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Hermann Denz (Editor), Gunter Bischof (Editor), Anton Pelinka (Editor)
Like most European countries, Austria does not have a strict separation between state and church. Since the counter-reformation, it has been considered a country strongly influenced by Catholicism. Austrian attitudes towards religion derive from the Habsburg experience, when Austria's emperors and the Catholic Church acted in complete unison. This ...
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Neutrality in Austria: Vol # 9
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Gunter Bischof (Editor), Anton Pelinka (Editor), Professor Ruth Wodak (Editor)
After Stalin's death, during a respite in Cold War tensions in 1955, Austria managed to rid itself of a quadripartite occupation regime and become a neutral state. As the Cold War continued, Austria's policy of neutrality helped make this small country into an important mediator of East-West differences, and neutrality became a crucial part of ...
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The Marshall Plan in Austria
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Gunter Bischof (Editor), Anton Pelinka (Editor), Dieter Stiefel (Editor)
The Marshall Plan for reconsruction of post-World War II Europe helped to ensure the Austrian economic miracle of the 1950s. Despite this Austria seems to have forgotten this essentially American contribution. This text examines how the plan affected Austria, and how it is perceived today.
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Marshall Plan and Germany
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Charles S Maier (Editor), Gunter Bischof (Editor)
This volume brings together an international team of distinguished political and economic historians to take stock of earlier work on the origins and impact of the Marshall Plan, and reinterpret it in light of revolutionary upheavals in Central and Easter Europe.
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Austria in the First Cold War, 1945-55: The Leverage of the Weak
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Gunter Bischof
At the height of the first Cold War in the early 1950s, the western powers worried that occupied Austria might become "Europe's Korea" and feared a Communist takeover. The Soviets exploited their occupation zone for maximum reparations. American economic aid guaranteed Austria's survival and economic reconstruction. Their military assistance ...
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Die Invasion in der Normandie 1944 : internationale Perspektiven
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Günter Bischof, Wolfgang Krieger
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