Embers of Empire

<ul> <li> Examines how political elites and ordinary people processed the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy and its familiar governing structures in 1918</li> <li> Explores the diverse and important ways in which the Empire's successor states drew upon its practices and traditions</li> <li> Discusses continuities before and after 1918 in many of the successor states (not just Austria) and not through the lens of imperial nostalgia</li> <li> Reexamines the interwar period in East-Central Europe by showing the links with an earlier period</li></ul>