The historian Lonnie Johnson provides in compact form a comprehensive overview of Austria's rich past and present. Each chapter and subchapter approaches Austria's diverse, thousand-year-old heritage from a different perspective to illuminate its essential features. In detailing Austria's turbulent history from 1918 to the present, controversial issues are presented objectively and without oversimplification. Overall the book conveys a differentiated picture of the country and its people which gives readers a feeling for the continuity and change of the Austrian idea.
ISBN: | 9780929497037 |
Publication date: | 1st January 1989 |
Author: | Lonnie Johnson |
Publisher: | Ariadne Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 195 pages |
Series: | Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought |
Genres: |
European history |