From Vienna to Chicago and back [[electronic resource] ] : essays on intellectual history and political thought in Europe and America / / Gerald Stourzh

• Autore: Stourzh Gerald
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (412 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.092
• Soggetto topico: Political science - Europe; Political science - United States
• Soggetto non controllato: europe, european, american, united states of america, usa, history, historical, western culture, benjamin franklin, charles beard, alexis de tocqueville, gustav mahler, liberal constitutionalism, liberalism, constitution, equal rights, equality, equity, transatlantic, transnationalism, transnational, international, internationalism, political science, politics, government, governing, william blackstone, max diamant, albert camus, democracy, karl krause
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-379) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction: Traces of an Intellectual Journey -- 1. Reason and Power in Benjamin Franklin's Political Thought (1953) -- 2. William Blackstone: Teacher of Revolution (1970) -- 3. Constitution: Changing Meanings of the Term from the Early Seventeenth to the Late Eighteenth Century (1988) -- 4. Charles A. Beard's Interpretations of American Foreign Policy (1957) -- 5. The Multinational Empire Revisited: Reflections on Late Imperial Austria (1992) -- 6. Ethnic Attribution in Late Imperial Austria: Good Intentions, Evil Consequences (1994) -- 7. The National Compromise in the Bukovina (1996) -- 8. Max Diamant and Jewish Diaspora Nationalism in the Bukovina (2002) -- 9. The Age of Emancipation and Assimilation: Liberalism and Its Heritage (2001) -- 10. An Apogee of Conversions: Gustav Mahler, Karl Kraus, and fin de siècle Vienna (2004) -- 11. The Origins of Austrian Neutrality (1988) -- 12. Equal Rights: Equalizing the Individual's Status and the Breakthrough of the Modern Liberal State (1996) -- 13. Liberal Democracy as a Culture of Rights: England, the United States, and Continental Europe (2000) -- 14. Tocqueville's Understanding of "Conditions of Equality" and "Conditions of Inequality" (2006) -- 15. The Unforgivable Sin: An Interpretation of Albert Camus' The Fall (1961) -- Appendix: Bibliographical Information -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 career-from 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 1950's from the University of Vienna to the University of Chicago-of which he draws a brilliant picture-and later took him to
• Titolo autorizzato: From Vienna to Chicago and back
• ISBN: 1-282-53745-8; 9786612537455; 0-226-77638-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781065703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II