Moscow, Moscow School of Political Studies, 2004, pp. 640, hard cover
It is a systematic analysis of the social and intellectual history of the Habsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire from mid 19th century to the first third of the 20th century. In this New Babylon, as contemporaries regarded this Josephist empire, paradoxically coexisted different languages and morals, patriarchy and modernism, aristocratic and mass culture; philosophic concepts were refuted and created, economic and social theories were born and passed away; a new language in literature, music, painting, architecture emerged…
This encyclopedic work by William M. Johnston, an American historian, is based on original sources and presents a brilliant analysis of the Austrian Renaissance and its global effect on the cultural and intellectual situation in the world civilization.
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