Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848–1918 IX: Soziale Strukturen, 1. Teilband: Von der feudal-agrarischen zur bürgerlich-industriellen Gesellschaft, hrg. von Helmut Rumpler und Peter Urbanitsch, Redaktion Ulrike Harmat (Wien: ÖAW 2010)

• Authors: Peter Urbanitsch

Title variants

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THE HABSBURG MONARCHY 1848-1918 IX: SOCIAL STRUCTURES, PART I: FROM THE FEUDAL-AGRARIAN TO A CIVIL-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY, BY HELMUT RUMPLER AND PETER URBANITSCH, EDITED BY ULRIKE HARMAT (VIENNA: AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2010)

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

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The map volume 'Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848-1918 IX: Soziale Strukturen, 2. Teilband: Die Gesellschaft der Habsburgermonarchie im Kartenbild. Verwaltungs-, Sozial- und Infrastrukturen. Nach dem Zensus von 1910, bearbeitet von Helmut Rumpler und Martin Seger' (The Habsburg Monarchy 1848-1918 IX: Social structures, Part 2: The Habsburg Monarchy's society reflected in maps. Administrative and social structures, infrastructures. Based on the 1910 census, edited by Helmut Rumpler and Martin Seger) published in spring 2010 provides a sort of snapshot of the social structures in the Habsburg Monarchy on the eve of the First World War. In the introductory part, general structural conditions of the Industrial Revolution are explained, such as the interrelation of technology and social transformation, the role of the education reform, and the rapid construction of an efficient communication system serving the exchange of ideas and goods, and thus the way to a knowledge-based society as a precondition of successful modernization. The central aspect of social transformation is the rapid development of population, which was very different within the Monarchy. A description of the social structures would be incomplete if we failed to take into consideration also the efforts either to integrate the emerging social tensions into system-related ideas, or to accept the social and political challenge and try to ease the social crisis of Modern Era by political negotiations. The spread of nationalism has already been mentioned here. The multiple forms of what is referred to as 'Life Reform' on the one hand and the anti-Semitism on the other provide two totally different responses, quite incomparable in their effects, to the social transformation and to the follow-up problems. Chapter V of the study contains two papers dealing with the socially critical discourses on and the theoretical concepts of solution to the 'social question' in Cisleithania and with their political implementation in Hungary, while in Chapter VI, which is the last one, the statistical foundations of social history of the Habsburg Monarchy are discussed.

Keywords

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HISTORY; 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES; HABSBURG MONARCHY; SOCIAL HISTORY

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 233-241

Contributors

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Peter Urbanitsch

• Zentrum Neuzeit- und Zeitgeschichtsforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Österreich