Fighting fire and drafting contracts: legal boundaries and practical hindrances of state building in the new Romania Greater Romania, as a successor state of both the Tsarist and the Habsburg Empires fcaed the challenge of creating a state from four different composite … [Read more...] about Abstracts Gábor Egry
Abstracts Veronika Szeghy-Gayer
Local trajectories of Czechoslovak state-building in small towns of Eastern Slovakia, 1918–1923 In the Eastern part of daily Slovakia the establishment and the consolidation of the new Czechoslovak Republic was hardly an easy project, particularly in the case of urban … [Read more...] about Abstracts Veronika Szeghy-Gayer
Abstracts Jernej Kosi
The curious case of Prekmurje: Yugoslav nation state and the imposition of the imperial Austrian administrative regulations in the former Hungarian region In July 1919, the Yugoslav delegation at the Paris Peace Conference received permission to occupy segments of two western … [Read more...] about Abstracts Jernej Kosi
Abstracts Ursula Mindler-Steiner
A region in transition / a state in the making. The establishment of the state of Burgenland and its impact on the (Jewish) population. After the end of WWI, as many other regions, the boundary region between Austria and Hungary (“Deutschwestungarn”) too was undergoing a period … [Read more...] about Abstracts Ursula Mindler-Steiner
Abstracts Šárka Navrátilová
Brno on Its Way to Becoming the Second City of Czechoslovakia: The Multi-Ethnic Urban Society and the State-Building Process The development of Brno into a modern metropolis was considerably accelerated after the constitution of Czechoslovakia in 1918. The Czechoslovak … [Read more...] about Abstracts Šárka Navrátilová