Brüchige „Heimatfront“. Mobilisierung und Überleben im Hinterland im Ersten Weltkrieg

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Abstract

The imagined community of the “Home Front” in the First World War demanded a high degree of “willingness to make sacrifices” from members of civil society, above all women and children, in order to mobilise their (im-)material resources for the war effort. However, as revealed by the fields of the “food front” and the “school front”, the creation of an imperial community of sacrifice ultimately failed – not only on the empire’s periphery, but also in the centre: the imperial capital of Vienna and the Lower Austrian heartland. This attempt at community-building failed due to internal tensions rather than external opponents of the war: victimised groups of wartime society mobilised counter-movements, thereby depriving the civil and military authorities of their legitimacy.
Original languageGerman (Austria)
Title of host publicationNiederösterreich im 19. Jahrhundert, Bd. 2: Gesellschaft und Gemeinschaft. Eine Regionalgeschichte der Moderne
Editors Oliver Kühschelm / Elisabeth Loinig / Stefan Eminger / Willibald Rosner
Place of PublicationSt. Pölten
PublisherNÖ Institut für Landeskunde
Pages479-509
Number of pages31
ISBN (Print)978-3-903127-26-5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Fields of science

  • 502049 Economic history
  • 504026 Social history
  • 601 History, Archaeology

JKU Focus areas

  • Sustainable Development: Responsible Technologies and Management

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