Respectable Citizens: Civic Militias, Local Patriotism, and Social Order in Late Habsburg Austria (1890‒1920)
| Autor: | Claire Morelon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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History
militias citizenship media_common.quotation_subject paramilitarism Population shooting associations 0507 social and economic geography Context (language use) 050701 cultural studies 060104 history Social order Political science Patriotism Bourgeoisie 0601 history and archaeology bourgeoisie/Bürgertum World War I education Citizenship media_common education.field_of_study civic defense 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts 16. Peace & justice Social stratification Spanish Civil War Political economy Austria-Hungary Habsburg Empire militias paramilitarism citizenship bourgeoisie/Bürgertum shooting associations national guards World War I civic defense Habsburg Empire national guards Austria-Hungary |
| Zdroj: | Austrian History Yearbook |
| ISSN: | 0067-2378 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0067237820000156 |
| Popis: | This article analyzes the role of urban civic militias (burgher corps) in Habsburg Austria from the end of the nineteenth century to the aftermath of World War I. Far from a remnant of the early modern past, by the turn of the twentieth century these militias were thriving local institutions. They fostered dynastic patriotism and participated in the growing promotion of shooting among the population in the lead-up to the conflict. But they also played a major role in upholding the bourgeois ideals of protection of social hierarchies and property. In the context of the rise of the workers' movement and social unrest, the militias saw themselves as bulwarks of social order and bastions of bourgeois virtue. They reflected an exclusive conception of armed citizenship opposed to the egalitarian notion of the citizen-soldier that survived into the twentieth century. The sensory experience of burgher corps parades during the patriotic or church celebrations was supposed to convey stability and express hierarchies in the urban space. This article also links the practices of armed civilians before the war to the paramilitary groups that emerged in 1918 and emphasizes the legacy of local conceptions of armed defense of property and of notions of “good” citizenship in the aftermath of the war. |
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