The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border

A refreshing re-examination of the history of Austria and Hungary in the wake of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border refocuses attention on the contested region of Western Hungary/Burgenland, considering how the process of building state borders shaped the region’s political, cultural, and social dynamics.

Hannes Grandits is Professor of Southeast European History at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Ibolya Murber is an Associate Professor of History at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest-Szombathely Her research interests include the Austrian-Hungarian relations in the 20th century and the history of democracy in Central Europe, and her recent publications include, Detours: The 20^th-century history of the Austro-Hungarian State Border (Kronosz, 2024).

Katharina Tyran is an Associate Professor of Slavic Philology at the University of Helsinki. Her research considers sociolinguistic topics with a focus on minoritized languages, linguistic landscape research, and writing. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume South Slavic Vienna: On the visibility and presence of South Slavic language and cultures in contemporary Vienna (Böhlau, 2022).

Hannes Grandits is Professor of Southeast European History at Humboldt University in Berlin.

“[T]his book is an important, significant addition to the current scholarship on empire and post-imperial breakdown and transition, and on the Habsburg/post-Habsburg history of borderlands.” • Marco Bresciani, University of Florence

“This is a very convincing edited volume on the transformation of power from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the Austrian Republic after the First World War. Looking at one particular region, Burgenland, that was contested between two losers of the War, the book provides insight into macro- and micro-level decision making processes, changes in hierarchies and power relations between social, ethnic, political and religious groups inhabiting this border region.” • Tim Buchen, Technische Universität Dresden