From Vienna to Chicago and Back
Essays on Intellectual History and Political Thought in Europe and America
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From Vienna to Chicago and Back
Essays on Intellectual History and Political Thought in Europe and America
About This Book
Spanning both the history of the modern West and his own five-decade journey as a historian, Gerald Stourzh's sweeping new essay collection covers the same breadth of topics that has characterized his careerâfrom Benjamin Franklin to Gustav Mahler, from Alexis de Tocqueville to Charles Beard, from the notion of constitution in seventeenth-century England to the concept of neutrality in twentieth-century Austria.This storied career brought him in the 1950s from the University of Vienna to the University of Chicagoâof which he draws a brilliant pictureâand later took him to Berlin and eventually back to Austria. One of the few prominent scholars equally at home with U.S. history and the history of central Europe, Stourzh has informed these geographically diverse experiences and subjects with the overarching themes of his scholarly achievement: the comparative study of liberal constitutionalism and the struggle for equal rights at the core of Western notions of free government. Composed between 1953 and 2005 and including a new autobiographical essay written especially for this volume, From Vienna to Chicago and Back will delight Stourzh fans, attract new admirers, and make an important contribution to transatlantic history.
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- Contents
- Foreword by Bernard Bailyn
- Foreword by John W. Boyer
- Introduction: Traces of an Intellectual Journey
- Part I: Anglo-American History
- Part II: Austrian HistoryâImperial and Republican
- Part III: The Tocquevillian Moment:From Hierarchical Status to Equal Rights
- Part IV: On the Human Condition
- Appendix: Bibliographical Information
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects