Selected Bibliography & Analysis of selected bibliography

The Transition of Croatian Elites from the Habsburg Monarchy to the Yugoslav State

Selected Bibliography

Bibliography (pdf)

Updated: December, 2020

Analysis of selected bibliography

Analysis  (pdf)

Bibliography has been expanded mostly on the basis of remarks of the consultant Pieter Judson, with texts of the following authors and editors: Deborah Coen, Jan Surman, Waltraud Heindl, Heidrun Zettelbauer, Gabriella Hauch, Diethild Hüchtker, Fabio Giomi David F. Good, Margarete Grandner, Mary Jo Maynes, John Deak, Bojan Baskar.

Bibliography has also been updated with the most recent articles and books. Of course, in such a short period of time it is not possible to notice any major trends upon which the bibliography-analysis could be substantially renewed, but in regard to the historiography on Croatian and Yugoslav history, it is perhaps worth noticing that there are still opposing views and interpretations (e.g. Branka Prpa, Dragan Markovina, Stipe Kljajić). The big theme of the fall of the legacy of the Habsburg Monarchy is still in the focus of many researchers (e.g. quite recently Embers of Empire.., Paul Miller, Claire Morelon eds; the European  project Negotiating post-imperial transitions: from remobilization to nation-state consolidation. A comparative study of local and regional transitions in post-Habsburg East and Central Europe https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/213495_en.html).

When it comes to the specific themes of the Croatian elites and their transition from the Habsburg Monarchy to the Yugoslav state, the transition itself is still very poorly taken into consideration, but there is an interest in the history of nobility, mostly in individual families (e.g. Danijel Jelaš et. al. eds; Anamarija Kučan et al. eds) but also synthetical works (e.g. Daniel Lalić), or the ones that deal with the transition of nobility (Iskra Iveljić, Miha Preinfalk). One can still notice the overall shortage of works on other parts of elites that are the subject of our project, especially economic elite.

(Around the globe) Conference “Paths of Transition / Transformation. Local Societies in Southeastern Europe in Transition from Empires to Nation States after World War I”

 

 

23.–24.11.2017, Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien, München

 

 

The dominant understanding of the end of WWI in Southeastern Europe is still marked by the emergence of nation states, rashly nationalizing institutions, space and people at the ruins of empires. The fall of empires certainly meant the end of a specific experience of state building and configuration, one based on the dominance of a metropolitan centre over peripheries that were ruled in a differentiated way. Although the empires turned to nationalizing themselves under the pressure of and challenge by the nation-state model, they still left a legacy that new nation states, also imperialising entities, could not easily dispose of.

 

With the new idea and legitimacy of statehood and the new, uniform and “homogeneous” states in the making, local societies had to face a period of transition, a systemic change that aimed at the profound reconfiguration of state and social relations. However, what seemed as a straightforward development at the general level did not necessarily mean a similar transformation (comprehensive and sustainable social change) for local and regional societies.

 

Uneven transition can be explained with a broad range of factors. Revealing how and why these were effective in certain cases and failed to have an effect on other ones is a key issue for understanding the transition process. Comparison of such disparate (or even similar) stories across space would allow for revealing these factors behind different local outcomes and paths of transition. The types of change in local societies, the potential to gain agency, the significance of the changes for individuals with varying social backgrounds are just a few of the many themes that can be brought to the fore when the focus rests on local cases and they are analysed through a comparative lens. Therefore, the conference attempts to bring together a wide range of case studies that present material for further comparisons and the comparative study of certain problems.

 

 

Abstracts:

http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/1f1b7d_23612c1443054df1938c25f1d890e961.pdf

 

Program:

http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/1f1b7d_3b1ad3c1e3214d82a760f8a21261cc53.pdf