From Vienna to Chicago and Back: Essays on Intellectual History and Political Thought in Europe and America.

Stourzh, Gerald:

ISBN 10: 0226776360 / ISBN 13: 9780226776361

Published by University of Chicago Press, 2007

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396 Seiten Das Buch befindet sich in einem gut erhaltenen Zustand. Original-Schutzumschlag vorhanden (siehe Foto). Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 715.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Vienna to Chicago and Back: Essays on Intellectual History and Political Thought in Europe and America.
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226776360
• ISBN 13: 9780226776361
• Binding: gebundene Ausgabe
• Condition: Gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 715 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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 1950s from the University of Vienna to the University of Chicago—of which he draws a brilliant picture—and 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.

About the Author

Gerald Stourzh is professor emeritus at the University of Vienna. He is the author of several books in English and German, including Benjamin Franklin and American Foreign Policy, published by the University of Chicago Press.