Table of Contents

Introduction: 'Military Culture' and Popular Patriotism in late Imperial Austria
1: Creating and Displaying Patriotism: Military Culture and Dynastic Self-Representation in Habsburg Austria
2: Embodying patriotism: Field-Marshall Radetzky as military hero
3: Popularising Patriotism: the Organisation of Military Veterans
4: 'Good soldiers': Military Veterans in Trentino
5: For Emperor and Fatherland: Military Veterans in Trieste and the Littoral
6: Patriotic Action: the Imperial and Royal Austrian Military Soldiers Corps
Conclusion: Military Culture and the Limits of Patriotic Mobilisation

About the Author

Laurence Cole studied modern history at the University of Oxford and the European University Institute. He has taught at Birkbeck College, London and the University of Birmingham. He was Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia, before becoming Professor of Austrian History at the University of Salzburg in 2013. He was co-editor of European History Quarterly from 2004 to 2011.

Reviews

An important work for both European history and military studies ... A first-rate study, ably grounded in the sources, and conceptually and methodologically acute.
*Jeremy Black, European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire*

Laurence Cole has done much with this current volume to start new conversations about the military forces and militarism in the Danubian monarchy. The work that has gone into this volume is impressive ... Cole offers a deeply researched, question-oriented and compelling argument
*John Deak, German History*

In this carefully researched and well-argued book, Laurence Cole offers the first substantial treatment of how military culture developed in late imperial Austrian society and the extent to which it supported popular state loyalties. In doing so, the book makes a significant contribution to the rapidly growing body of scholarship on the evolving relations among citizens, civil society, and government in the fifty years before 1918.
*Gary B. Cohen, Central European History*

With this important new book Laurence Cole challenges historians of the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states to rethink fundamental questions about the popular character of loyalty and patriotism in Imperial Austria ... superbly researched sections enable Cole to develop credible and complex answers to some of historians most critical questions about popular understandings of patriotism.
*Pieter Judson, Central Europe*

Cole has produced a much-needed and extensively researched monograph. The focus on military culture allows for a nuanced reflection on the public sphere, popular culture, nationalism, and patriotism in the late empire ... the monograph is a very valuable addition to the field of Austrian studies that places the empire within the larger context of European history during the late nineteenth century.
*Iryna Vushko, American Historical Review*

Behind the prosaic title of this book lies a source-rich, but also theoretically sophisticated study, which simultaneously makes a contribution to several fields of discussion in the recent historiography of the Habsburg Monarchy. Questions about societal militarization, associations, patriotism, and the relationship between civil society and the state are combined in a productive way ... This [is an] excellent study.
*William D. Godsey Jr., Historische Zeitschrift*

Laurence Cole has produced a pioneering microanalysis of Habsburg efforts, especially after 1848, to create a patriotic culture in Austria ... Cole's sweeping, almost exhausting analysis provides a definitive roadmap to these patriotic efforts.
*Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., Journal of Military History*