| Description |
xiv, 396 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-379) and indexes. |
| Contents |
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 siecle 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. |
| Subject |
Political science -- Europe.
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Political science -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9780226776361 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0226776360 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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