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FRANZ MATHIS, "INVESTIGATION OF THE ALPINE REGION IN AUSTRIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY"

Whenever, in Austrian historical writings so far, things went beyond the bare description of historical developments and the question of causal conditions was raised, it was other than “alpine” attempts at explanation that were clearly in the forefront. Individual manifestations were either termed Austrian, Tyrolean, Salzburgian, Styrian etc., or attempts at explanation were made via the ethnic structure of the population, or, at best, via the geographical pre-conditions mountains or lowlands. Whether, in addition, there were also typical alpine structures and attitudes, can only be revealed by a comparison of the various alpine regions and of the non-alpine territories - a vast field of future historical research.

UTA LINDGREN, "REVIEW OF THE PRESENT STATE OF RESEARCH INTO THE HISTORY OF THE ALPS AND CURRENT PROJECTS IN GERMANY"

National reports on alpine history stumble over the difficulty that national boundaries are often no criterion of boundary-drawing in research. This may be true of Germany particularly since the Bavarian and Swabian share of the Alps is small. Thus the Alps play a correspondingly small role in national historical research. This need not be so, however, as the activities, for example, in the town of Kempten show. The German Alpine Association is aiming for an alpine-historical centre in a wider sense through the setting-up of a museum in Munich. Apart from that one can point to a series of historical publications that are devoted totally or in part to the German alpine region.

DARJA MIHELIC, "ON THE RESEARCH INTO THE ALPINE REGION OF SLOVENIA"

This contribution provides an overall view of research in historical sciences and other branches on the Slovenian alpine region. The focal points are the characterization of the research organization and a listing of definite projects.

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HISTOIRE DES ALPES - STORIA DELLE ALPI - GESCHICHTE DER ALPEN 1996/1