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 language | German (Austria) |
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| Title of host publication | Niederösterreich im 19. Jahrhundert, Bd. 2: Gesellschaft und Gemeinschaft. Eine Regionalgeschichte der Moderne |
| Editors | Oliver Kühschelm / Elisabeth Loinig / Stefan Eminger / Willibald Rosner |
| Place of Publication | St. Pölten |
| Publisher | NÖ Institut für Landeskunde |
| Pages | 479-509 |
| Number of pages | 31 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-903127-26-5 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Fields of science
- 502049 Economic history
- 504026 Social history
- 601 History, Archaeology
JKU Focus areas
- Sustainable Development: Responsible Technologies and Management