Embers of Empire: Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States After 1918

The collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of World War I ushered in a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities. Yet this transformed landscape inevitably still bore the traces of its imperial past. Breaking with traditional histories that take 1918 as a strict line of demarcation, this collection focuses on the complexities that attended the transition from the Habsburg Empire to its successor states. In so doing, it produces new and more nuanced insights into the persistence and effectiveness of imperial institutions, as well as the sources of instability in the newly formed nation-states.

Paul Miller teaches history at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland) and at McDaniel College in the U.S. His forthcoming book, Misfire: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I, will be published by Oxford University Press in February 2022.

Claire Morelon is ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Padova. She holds a dual doctorate in Modern European History from the University of Birmingham and the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris, and was a Junior Research Fellow at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford.