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The Prochaska Affair revisited : towards a revaluation of Austria-Hungary’s Balkan consuls
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The Hungarian historical review, 2022, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 305-328
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MÖRSDORF, Sven, The Prochaska Affair revisited : towards a revaluation of Austria-Hungary’s Balkan consuls, The Hungarian historical review, 2022, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 305-328 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74964
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Consuls and consular diplomacy in the long nineteenth century are enjoying a growing interest across various historiographies. This article explores the prominent case of the Austro-Hungarian consul Oskar Prochaska in an effort to offer insight into consular officials as actors of diplomacy and empire in a Habsburg setting. Prochaska, who famously got caught up in a major diplomatic crisis during the First Balkan War in 1912, has never been studied as a protagonist in the events that came to be known as the Prochaska Affair. This calls for an analysis of Prochaska’s diplomatic activity as consul, understood here as his social interaction with his counterparts and adversaries on the ground in Prizren, Kosovo. Adopting a local perspective on a crisis of European and global importance, the article argues for a revaluation of consuls and their bureaucracy as a promising subject for cultural and social histories of the Habsburg Empire and its foreign policy, both in the Balkans and around the world.