From Vienna to Chicago and back : essays on intellectual history and political thought in Europe and America /

Spanning both the history of the modern West and his journey as a historian, this work covers the topics that has characterized Gerald Stourzh's career - from Benjamin Franklin to Gustav Mahler, from Alexis de Tocqueville to Charles Beard, from the notion of constitution in 17th-century England...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stourzh, Gerald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Temas:
Political science > Europe.
Political science > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Political science
Europe
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Traces of an Intellectual Journey
  • Part I: Anglo-American History
  • Reason and Power in Benjamin Franklin's Political Thought (1953)
  • William Blackstone: Teacher of Revolution (1970)
  • Constitution: Changing Meanings of the Term from the Early Seventeenth to the Late Eighteenth Century (1988)
  • Charles A. Beard's Interpretations of American Foreign Policy (1957)
  • Part II: Austrian History Imperial and Republican
  • The Multinational Empire Revisited. Robert Kann Lecture 1989 (1992)
  • Ethnic Attribution in Late Imperial Austria: Good Intentions, Evil Consequences (1994)
  • The National Compromise in the Bukovina (1996)
  • Max Diamant and Jewish Diaspora Nationalism in the Bukovina (2002)
  • The Age of Emancipation and Assimilation: Liberalism and its Heritage (2001)
  • An Apogee of Conversions: Gustav Mahler, Karl Kraus and fin de siècle Vienna (2004)
  • The Origins of Austrian Neutrality (1988)
  • Part III: The Tocquevillian Moment: From Hierarchical Status to Equal Rights
  • Equal Rights: Equalizing the Individual's Status and the Breakthrough of Modernity (1996)
  • Liberal Democracy as a Culture of Rights: England, the United States and Continental Europe (1999)
  • Tocqueville's Understanding of "Conditions of Equality" and "Conditions of Inequality" (2005)
  • Part IV: On the Human Condition
  • The Unforgivable Sin: An Interpretation of Albert Camus' The Fall (1961)
  • Appendix: Bibliographical Information.

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