Mark Cornwall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3750477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Cornwall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Cornwall |
| SIGNATURE | CORNWALL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Manfred Macmillan. Book One of the Three Magicians Trilogy, by Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic
Propaganda and plebiscite in the Adriatic during the demise of Austria-Hungary
Exiles of love: Uncovering lesbian voices in interwar Czechoslovakia
Lesbian voices and experiences have received little attention in Czech historiography: recent research has concentrated on the modern era from the 1950s. This article deepens our understanding of lesbian lives in interwar Prague. It focuses on two forgotten lesbian novels, Exiles of Love and The Third Sex , which were deliberately suppressed after 1948 by the Communist regime as examples of inferior bourgeois literature. The two authors, Lída Mer…
Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny. Forgotten Wars: Central and Eastern Europe, 1912–1916
Journal Article Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny. Forgotten Wars: Central and Eastern Europe, 1912–1916. Get access Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny. Forgotten Wars: Central and Eastern Europe, 1912–1916. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 376. Cloth $99.99. Mark Cornwall Mark Cornwall University of Southampton, England Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Sarajevo 1914: Sparking the First World War
In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. This key event in 20th-century history continues to fascinate the public imagination, yet few historians have examined in depth the regional context which allowed this assassination to happen or the murder's ripples which quickly spread out across the Balkans, Austria-Hungary and Europe as a whole. In this study, Mark Cornwall has gathered an impressive ca…
Between Budapest and Belgrade: The road to pragmatism and treason in 1914 Croatia
Die Macht des Verfahrens: Englische Hochverratsprozesse 1554–1848, by André Krischer
At his trial for high treason against the Commonwealth in October 1649, the Leveller John Lilburne courageously took control of the courtroom. He lambasted the legal formalities on display in the Guildhall, demanded a defence lawyer, and even asked for a chamber pot so that he could urinate publicly and demonstrate his complete contempt for the court’s legitimacy. As André Krischer argues in this impressive new study of English treason trials, th…
Janek Wasserman. Black Vienna: The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918–1938
Black Vienna: The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918–1938 is a well-written and carefully crafted study that delivers both less and more than is suggested by the title. It should really be subtitled “an intellectual history,” for its key purpose is to analyze the ideological landscape of Black Vienna through the writings of its leading conservative intellectuals. Instead of focusing as usual on “Red Vienna,” a term first used by the Right in 192…
Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War
Sacrifice and Rebirth: The legacy of the last Habsburg war
When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotten across all the ex-Habsburg territories. Each of the book’s twelve chapters focuses on a separate region, studying how the transition to peacetime was managed either by th…
The Spirit of 1914 in Austria-Hungary
This article studies the “spirit of 1914” in the Habsburg monarchy, the myth that an enthusiastic mood prevailed across the empire during the first summer of the Great War when troops were sent off against the Serbian and Russian enemies. It seeks to explain how far this mood was spontaneous or directed from above by the state authorities, and finds that both interacted with each other as mobilization occurred. It also seeks through a range of vo…
Traitors and the Meaning of Treason in Austria-Hungary’s Great War
Treason is a ubiquitous historical phenomenon, one particularly associated with regime instability or wartime loyalties. This paper explores the practice and prosecution of treason in the last decades of the Habsburg monarchy with a special focus on some notorious wartime treason trials. It first sets the rhetoric and law of treason in a comparative historical context before assessing the legal framework supplied by the Austrian penal code of 185…
The Devil's Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha
Heinz Rutha, pioneer of a youth movement that emphasized male bonding in its quest to reassert German dominance over Czechoslovakia, was arrested in 1937 for corrupting male adolescents. This led to an international scandal. Cornwall’s biography is the first to tackle the long-taboo intersection of youth, homosexuality, and fascist nationalism.
Devil's Wall
Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism
This is the third study of its kind recently by an American historian to analyse the radical decade of the Czech–German relationship between 1938 and 1948. While Bradley Abrams (The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation) and Benjamin Frommer (National Cleansing) both examined aspects of the postwar Czech mentality, defined very much against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation, Chad Bryant's monograph is singular in focusing on German and Czech beha…
National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia
Among the recent works by American historians examining the controversial decade of radical nationalism in the Bohemian lands (1938–48), this study by Benjamin Frommer is the most innovative in design and most persuasive in its arguments. It is a richly researched analysis of the whole machinery of Czech retribution against those Czechs or Germans deemed to have collaborated with the six-year Nazi occupation. It explores, as no other work has don…
Stirring Resistance from Moscow: The German Communists of Czechoslovakia and Wireless Propaganda in the Sudetenland, 1941–1945
This is a study of the radio propaganda campaign targeted at the Sudetenland from the USSR from November 1941 to May 1945. Under the supervision of the Czechoslovak communist party and the Comintern, the broadcasts were composed and conducted by Sudeten German communists stationed first in Ufa and then in Moscow. At first, on the basis of limited information, they strove simply to divide Sudeten Germans at home from the Nazi régime. But from May …
The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds
Heinrich Rutha and the Unraveling of a Homosexual Scandal in 1930s Czechoslovakia
Imperium/Empire/Reich, Franz Bosbach and Hermann Hiery
Journal Article Imperium/Empire/Reich, Franz Bosbach and Hermann Hiery Get access Mark Cornwall Mark Cornwall University of Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 467, June 2001, Pages 690–691, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.467.690 Published: 01 June 2001
The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds
This is a major new contribution to the historiography of the First World War. It examines the lively battle of ideas which helped to destroy Austria-Hungary. It also assesses, for the first time, the
Freiheit in der Unfreiheit. Die nationale Autonomie der Polen in Galizien nach dem osterreichisch-ungarischen Ausgleich von 1867
Freiheit in der Unfreiheit. Die nationale Autonomie der Polen in Galizien nach dem österreichisch-ungarischen Ausgleich von 1867 Get access Mark Cornwall Mark Cornwall Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 15, Issue 2, April 1997, Pages 277–279, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/15.2.277 Published: 01 April 1997
The Struggle on the Czech-German Language Border, 1880–1940
An analysis of the struggle and mentality of Czech and German nationalist activists on the Czech-German language border (1880-1940). The article focuses on three sections of the border as case studies and assesses how far the claims of the activists matched the realities on the ground and how far their work fomented anatagonism between Czechs and Germans
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES MARK CORNWALL MARK CORNWALL University of Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 426, January 1993, Pages 253–255, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.426.253 Published: 01 January 1993
News, Rumour and the Control of Information in Austria‐Hungary, 1914–1918
A first attempt to explore censorship and propaganda in the Habsburg Empire during the First World War, and especially the way that the authorities lost control of public opinion
The Struggle on the Czech-German Language Border, 1880–1940
An analysis of the struggle and mentality of Czech and German nationalist activists on the Czech-German language border (1880-1940). The article focuses on three sections of the border as case studies and assesses how far the claims of the activists matched the realities on the ground and how far their work fomented anatagonism between Czechs and Germans
Exiles of love: Uncovering lesbian voices in interwar Czechoslovakia
Lesbian voices and experiences have received little attention in Czech historiography: recent research has concentrated on the modern era from the 1950s. This article deepens our understanding of lesbian lives in interwar Prague. It focuses on two forgotten lesbian novels, Exiles of Love and The Third Sex , which were deliberately suppressed after 1948 by the Communist regime as examples of inferior bourgeois literature. The two authors, Lída Mer…
Heinrich Rutha and the Unraveling of a Homosexual Scandal in 1930s Czechoslovakia
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access MARK CORNWALL MARK CORNWALL Wolfson CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXX, July 1991, Pages 723-a–723, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXX.723-a Published: 01 July 1991
News, Rumour and the Control of Information in Austria‐Hungary, 1914–1918
A first attempt to explore censorship and propaganda in the Habsburg Empire during the First World War, and especially the way that the authorities lost control of public opinion
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES MARK CORNWALL MARK CORNWALL University of Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 426, January 1993, Pages 253–255, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.426.253 Published: 01 January 1993
The Struggle on the Czech-German Language Border, 1880–1940
An analysis of the struggle and mentality of Czech and German nationalist activists on the Czech-German language border (1880-1940). The article focuses on three sections of the border as case studies and assesses how far the claims of the activists matched the realities on the ground and how far their work fomented anatagonism between Czechs and Germans
Freiheit in der Unfreiheit. Die nationale Autonomie der Polen in Galizien nach dem osterreichisch-ungarischen Ausgleich von 1867
Freiheit in der Unfreiheit. Die nationale Autonomie der Polen in Galizien nach dem österreichisch-ungarischen Ausgleich von 1867 Get access Mark Cornwall Mark Cornwall Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 15, Issue 2, April 1997, Pages 277–279, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/15.2.277 Published: 01 April 1997
The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds
This is a major new contribution to the historiography of the First World War. It examines the lively battle of ideas which helped to destroy Austria-Hungary. It also assesses, for the first time, the
Imperium/Empire/Reich, Franz Bosbach and Hermann Hiery
Journal Article Imperium/Empire/Reich, Franz Bosbach and Hermann Hiery Get access Mark Cornwall Mark Cornwall University of Dundee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 467, June 2001, Pages 690–691, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.467.690 Published: 01 June 2001
The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds
Heinrich Rutha and the Unraveling of a Homosexual Scandal in 1930s Czechoslovakia
Stirring Resistance from Moscow: The German Communists of Czechoslovakia and Wireless Propaganda in the Sudetenland, 1941–1945
This is a study of the radio propaganda campaign targeted at the Sudetenland from the USSR from November 1941 to May 1945. Under the supervision of the Czechoslovak communist party and the Comintern, the broadcasts were composed and conducted by Sudeten German communists stationed first in Ufa and then in Moscow. At first, on the basis of limited information, they strove simply to divide Sudeten Germans at home from the Nazi régime. But from May …
Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism
This is the third study of its kind recently by an American historian to analyse the radical decade of the Czech–German relationship between 1938 and 1948. While Bradley Abrams (The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation) and Benjamin Frommer (National Cleansing) both examined aspects of the postwar Czech mentality, defined very much against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation, Chad Bryant's monograph is singular in focusing on German and Czech beha…
National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia
Among the recent works by American historians examining the controversial decade of radical nationalism in the Bohemian lands (1938–48), this study by Benjamin Frommer is the most innovative in design and most persuasive in its arguments. It is a richly researched analysis of the whole machinery of Czech retribution against those Czechs or Germans deemed to have collaborated with the six-year Nazi occupation. It explores, as no other work has don…
The Devil's Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha
Heinz Rutha, pioneer of a youth movement that emphasized male bonding in its quest to reassert German dominance over Czechoslovakia, was arrested in 1937 for corrupting male adolescents. This led to an international scandal. Cornwall’s biography is the first to tackle the long-taboo intersection of youth, homosexuality, and fascist nationalism.
Devil's Wall
The Spirit of 1914 in Austria-Hungary
This article studies the “spirit of 1914” in the Habsburg monarchy, the myth that an enthusiastic mood prevailed across the empire during the first summer of the Great War when troops were sent off against the Serbian and Russian enemies. It seeks to explain how far this mood was spontaneous or directed from above by the state authorities, and finds that both interacted with each other as mobilization occurred. It also seeks through a range of vo…
Traitors and the Meaning of Treason in Austria-Hungary’s Great War
Treason is a ubiquitous historical phenomenon, one particularly associated with regime instability or wartime loyalties. This paper explores the practice and prosecution of treason in the last decades of the Habsburg monarchy with a special focus on some notorious wartime treason trials. It first sets the rhetoric and law of treason in a comparative historical context before assessing the legal framework supplied by the Austrian penal code of 185…
Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War
Sacrifice and Rebirth: The legacy of the last Habsburg war
When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotten across all the ex-Habsburg territories. Each of the book’s twelve chapters focuses on a separate region, studying how the transition to peacetime was managed either by th…
Janek Wasserman. Black Vienna: The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918–1938
Black Vienna: The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918–1938 is a well-written and carefully crafted study that delivers both less and more than is suggested by the title. It should really be subtitled “an intellectual history,” for its key purpose is to analyze the ideological landscape of Black Vienna through the writings of its leading conservative intellectuals. Instead of focusing as usual on “Red Vienna,” a term first used by the Right in 192…
Sarajevo 1914: Sparking the First World War
In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. This key event in 20th-century history continues to fascinate the public imagination, yet few historians have examined in depth the regional context which allowed this assassination to happen or the murder's ripples which quickly spread out across the Balkans, Austria-Hungary and Europe as a whole. In this study, Mark Cornwall has gathered an impressive ca…
Between Budapest and Belgrade: The road to pragmatism and treason in 1914 Croatia
Die Macht des Verfahrens: Englische Hochverratsprozesse 1554–1848, by André Krischer
At his trial for high treason against the Commonwealth in October 1649, the Leveller John Lilburne courageously took control of the courtroom. He lambasted the legal formalities on display in the Guildhall, demanded a defence lawyer, and even asked for a chamber pot so that he could urinate publicly and demonstrate his complete contempt for the court’s legitimacy. As André Krischer argues in this impressive new study of English treason trials, th…
Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny. Forgotten Wars: Central and Eastern Europe, 1912–1916
Journal Article Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny. Forgotten Wars: Central and Eastern Europe, 1912–1916. Get access Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny. Forgotten Wars: Central and Eastern Europe, 1912–1916. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 376. Cloth $99.99. Mark Cornwall Mark Cornwall University of Southampton, England Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Exiles of love: Uncovering lesbian voices in interwar Czechoslovakia
Lesbian voices and experiences have received little attention in Czech historiography: recent research has concentrated on the modern era from the 1950s. This article deepens our understanding of lesbian lives in interwar Prague. It focuses on two forgotten lesbian novels, Exiles of Love and The Third Sex , which were deliberately suppressed after 1948 by the Communist regime as examples of inferior bourgeois literature. The two authors, Lída Mer…
Propaganda and plebiscite in the Adriatic during the demise of Austria-Hungary
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