Austria
Basics
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
Library of Congress Country Profile.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators
World Guide (Montevideo)
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Gehmacher, Johanna. "Men, women & the community borders: German-Nationalist & National Socialist discourses on gender, 'race' & nationalist identity in Austria, 1918-1938," in Pierson & Chaudhuri (eds.) Nation, Empire, Colony (Bloomington: Indiana U, 1998), pp. 205-19.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Hamann, Brigitte. Hitler’s Vienna: A Dictator’s Apprenticeship (NY: Oxford, 1999).
Höbelt, Lothar. Defiant Populist: Jörg Haider & the Politics of Austria (West Lafayette IN: Purdue, 2003).
Lichtenberger, Elisabeth. Austria: Society & Regions (Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2000).
Pick, Hella. Guilty Victim: Austria from the Holocaust to Haider (London: I.B. Tauris, 2000).
Steininger, Rolf; Gunter Bischof & Michael Gehler (eds.) Austria in the 20th C. (New Brunswick NJ: Transaction, 2002).
Thaler, Peter. The Ambivalence of Identity: The Austrian Experience of Nation-Building in a Modern Society (West Lafayette IN: Purdue, 2001).
Wodak, Ruth & Anton Pelinka (eds.) The Haider Phenomenon in Austria (New Brunswick NJ: Transaction, 2002).
In the Library: Fiction
Canetti, Veza. Yellow Street: A Novel in Five Scenes (London: Halban, 1990).
Decker, Craig (ed.) Austrian Identities: 20th C. Short Fiction (Riverside CA: Ariadne, 2004).
Goddard, Robert. Caught in the Light: A Novel (NY: Henry Holt, 1999).
Jelinek, Elfriede. Wonderful, Wonderful Times (trans. Michael Hulse; London: Serpent's Tail, 1990).
__________. Lust (trans. Michael Hulse; NY: Serpent's Tail, 1992).
__________. Women as Lovers (trans. Michael Chalmers; NY: Serpent's Tail, 1994).
__________. The Piano Teacher [1988] (trans. Joachim Neugroschel; NY: Grove, 2004).
Lippi, Rosina. Homestead (Harrison NY: Delphinium, 1998).
MacLean, Alistair. Where Eagles Dare (NY: Thunder's Mouth, 2002).
Mathews, Adrian. Vienna Blood: A Novel (NY: HarperCollins, 1999).
Schnitzler, Arthur. Lieutenant Gusti (LA: Sun & Moon, 1993).
Wray, John. The Right Hand of Sleep (NY: Knopf, 2001).
In the Library: For Young Readers
Denenberg, Barry. One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss (NY: Scholastic, 2000).
Ibbotson, Eva. The Star of Kazan (NTY: Dutton Children's, 2004).
Orgel, Doris. The Devil in Vienna (NY: Dell, 1980).
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"The Piano Teacher" [2002], dir. Michael Haneke, 125m. In video stores.