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

Gerald Stourzh

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Description:Spanning both the history of the modern West and his own five-decade journey as a historian, Gerald StourzhOCOs sweeping new essay collection covers the same breadth of topics that has characterized his careerOCofrom 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 ChicagoOCoof which he draws a brilliant pictureOCoand 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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with From Vienna to Chicago and Back: Essays on Intellectual History and Political Thought in Europe and America. To get started finding From Vienna to Chicago and Back: Essays on Intellectual History and Political Thought in Europe and America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 412

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Release: 2014

ISBN: 0226776387

Description: Spanning both the history of the modern West and his own five-decade journey as a historian, Gerald StourzhOCOs sweeping new essay collection covers the same breadth of topics that has characterized his careerOCofrom 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 ChicagoOCoof which he draws a brilliant pictureOCoand 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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with From Vienna to Chicago and Back: Essays on Intellectual History and Political Thought in Europe and America. To get started finding From Vienna to Chicago and Back: Essays on Intellectual History and Political Thought in Europe and America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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