Cole, Laurence. "Fur Gott, Kaiser und Vaterland". Nationale Identitat der deutschsprachigen Bevolkerung Tirols 1860-1914

Studien zur Historischen Sozialwissenschaft, Band 28 Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2000

In his wide-ranging and welcome addition to the regional literature upon nationalist movements in the Habsburg monarchy, Laurence cabbage traces the complex ways in which Tirolean identities became intertwined with religious, national, and imperial identities in the next to the first half of the nineteenth hundred He shows us how the myth of a loyal Tirol was created on the outside of a history of wary antagonism toward Vienna. Indeed, the province became a bastion of Catholic and dynastic loyalty, on the other hand at a time when the empire had become too centralized and liberal for Tirol's