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Central European Elites in Post-Imperial Transition: Locality, Agency, Capital book cover

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Central European Elites in Post-Imperial Transition Locality, Agency, Capital

Edited By Gábor Egry Copyright 2026
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge
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This book examines how local elites from the dissolved Austria-Hungary managed to survive and often thrive despite the empire's collapse in 1918. When faced with national and social revolutions, these figures—many of whom suddenly found themselves ethnic minorities—seemed destined to lose their positions entirely. Yet a surprising number not only persisted but became essential to the... Read more

Introduction – Central European elites in post-imperial transition: locality, agency, capital

Gábor Egry

 

1. Between Lower Austria and Moravia: displaced local elites and the Feldsberg/Valtice agricultural school

Kathryn E. Densford

 

2. A Hungarian count’s business in Romania: the strange survival of Tișița (1907–40)

Csongor Jánosi

 

3. Former Hungarian civil servants on the territory of Slovakia amid the first years of the Czechoslovak Republic, 1919–24: a case study on the status regulation of teachers and postal employees

Veronika Szeghy-Gayer

 

4. ‘For everything, the local priest is a helper in adversity’: Catholic clergy and the new order in post-Habsburg Tyrol

Christopher Wendt

 

5. The rise of Titans? Economic transition and local elites in post-1918 Banat and Transylvania

Gábor Egry

 

Biography

Gábor Egry is a historian of modern Central and Eastern Europe, who held visiting positions among others at Columbia, Stanford, European University Institute, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. His research focuses on nationalism, economic history, postimperial transitions and politics of memory. In 2018–2023 he was Principal Investigator of the ERC Nepostrans project.

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