04873nam a22005295i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001400153072001700167072002300184072001500207100007500222245016600297250001800463264007900481300006300560336002600623337002600649338003600675347002400711490005400735505064500789520230601434650002103740650003003761650002003791650003203811650001903843650002303862650002203885650004303907650002303950650002603973650005303999650002304052710003404075773002604109776003604135776003604171776003604207830005404243856004604297978-3-031-64479-5DE-He21320251030112853.0cr nn 008mamaa240814s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316447957 a10.1007/978-3-031-64479-52doi 4aD900-2027 7aHBJD2bicssc 7aHIS0100002bisacsh 7aNHD2thema1 aMulej, Oskar.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aLiberalism after the Habsburg Monarchy, 1918–1935h[electronic resource] :bNational Liberal Heirs in the Czech Lands, Austria, and Slovenia /cby Oskar Mulej.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXIX, 370 p. 9 illus., 2 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aPalgrave Studies in Political History,x2946-51840 aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: What Kind of Liberalism is this Book After? -- Chapter 3: From National Liberals towards their Heirs: Developmental Patterns in Central European Liberal Party Traditions, 1867-1918 -- Chapter 4: Semantics of Liberalism: What did it Mean to be 'Liberal' in Interwar Czech, Austrian and Slovene Contexts? -- Chapter 5: 'National Liberal Heirs' as Region-Specific Type of Political Party -- Chapter 6: 'National Liberals' Devoid of Liberalism? Nationalist Conceptions and Rhetoric: Continuities and Change -- Chapter 7: Limited Government vs. the 'New Order' -- Chapter 8: A Glimpse Beyond Party Politics.  a“In an age of increasing illiberalism in Europe today, this persuasive study of liberal politics and parties in the interwar years is a welcome addition to our understanding of that slippery, yet critical political concept: liberalism.” —Pieter M. Judson, European University Institute “Oskar Mulej’s path-breaking book traces various attempts to salvage at least some liberal values and institutions in a non-liberal age and region: interwar Central Europe.” —Maciej Janowski, Polish Academy of Sciences This book explores what it meant to be ‘liberal’ in interwar Czech, Austrian, and Slovenian politics. Up until 1918, these countries shared the common political framework of Cisleithania (the Austrian part of the Habsburg Monarchy). Within this framework was the predominantly pejorative function of the label ‘liberal,’ and as a result after 1918, no major political party employed it to describe its own political orientation. Despite making considerable efforts to dissociate themselves from liberalism, many parties continued to be referred to as ‘liberal’ by the contemporary public. This association with liberalism, the book argues, was primarily due to the parties’ historical background rather than any ideological commitment to liberalism, and for that reason, the author refers to them as ‘national liberal heirs.’ Examining the (dis)continuities of liberal party traditions, the book presents three representative cases of national liberal heirs: the Czechoslovak National Democracy; the Greater German People's Party; and the Slovenian sections of the Yugoslav Democratic Party, the Independent Democratic Party, and the Yugoslav National Party. Forming a distinctive part of early twentieth-century party landscapes in Central Europe, the national liberal heirs had inherited organisational structures, parts of electorate, as well as rootedness in specific cultural and social milieus from their liberal predecessors. Following the political trajectories of the national liberal heirs, the author seeks to answer in which spheres, in which manners, and to what extent liberalism survived or even continued to develop in the interwar Czech lands, Austria, and Slovenia. Oskar Mulej is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Vienna in Austria. 0aEuropexHistory. 0aEurope, CentralxHistory. 0aWorld politics. 0aIntellectual lifexHistory. 0aWorld history. 0aPolitical science.14aEuropean History.24aHistory of Germany and Central Europe.24aPolitical History.24aIntellectual History.24aWorld History, Global and Transnational History.24aPolitical Science.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303164478808iPrinted edition:z978303164480108iPrinted edition:z9783031644818 0aPalgrave Studies in Political History,x2946-518440uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64479-5