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Introduction: Celebrating Austrian Thought—History and Mind in the Work of David S. Luft

IntroductionCelebrating Austrian Thought—History and Mind in the Work of David S. Luft Donald L. Wallace (bio), Diana Cordileone (bio), and Doug McGetchin (bio) This JAS Special Issue takes the opportunity of David S. Luft's recent retirement from teaching (after forty-six years) and his forthcoming publication The Austrian Dimension in German Intellectual History: From the Enlightenment to Anschluss (Bloomsbury Academic, Spring 2021) to celebrate both the field he helped direct and his own impressive contributions to the study of the Central European mind. It is also an opportunity to highlight Professor Luft's influence on his students through his commitment to mentorship, teaching, and friendship. Over his career, Professor Luft has matched research productivity with variety and depth. He wrote intellectual history monographs, articles on Central European history, and edited and translated into English two of the most important essayistic voices of modern Austria (Musil and Hofmannsthal). Luft is the author of Robert Musil and the Crisis of European Culture: 1880–1942 (U California P, 1980), Eros and Inwardness in Vienna: Weininger, Musil, Doderer (U Chicago P, 2003), and The Austrian Dimension in German Intellectual History: From the Enlightenment to Anschluss (Bloomsbury, 2021). He translated and edited the essays of Robert Musil and Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses (with Burton Pike; U Chicago P, 1990) and Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea (Purdue UP, 2011). In terms of professional service, David Luft remains an important leader in the promotion of Central European and Austrian history: President MALCA 2010–2012 (Vice President 2009); President Austrian Studies Association [End Page xvii] 2012–2014; Executive Secretary, Society for Austrian and Habsburg History, 2006–2009. Member, Executive Committee of the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History, 2005–2008. He served on editorial boards for the Austrian History Yearbook, 2006–2009, The German Quarterly, 2006–2012, and The Journal of Austrian Studies, 2007-present. He has worked closely with scholars in Vienna through multiple Fulbright grants, and in 2019 he was elected to the European Academy. Professor Luft was also a revered and well-loved classroom lecturer and seminar leader, consistently receiving awards for excellence in teaching; more importantly, however, he developed his students into teachers through his example of preparedness, clarity, and energy. Finally, he excelled at being a mentor, as evidenced by the contribution of his students here and continued guidance and collaboration with them. Over his career he worked on dozens of dissertation committees and directed sixteen completed PhDs. Many of Luft's students went on to impact the field of German and Austrian history through both research publications and teaching careers.1 The essays gathered here go a long way in expressing what David Luft represents in the scholarship of Austrian intellectual history. However, I think it is necessary and useful to expand on that topic. What is in a name? It is the question that I asked as I reviewed David Luft's career and considered how to define his work and his influence. I had hopes of finding a single term by which to frame or define his career. But, as the contributions to this Special Issue demonstrate, Luft's career and influence are too multivalent to be packed into a single term: intellectual historian, translator, biographer, essayist, teacher, to name just a few. Thus, I endeavor in this essay to characterize his basic intellectual impulses, to describe the world and the thinkers to which he gravitates, and to illuminate the questions he asks and the questions he inspires his students to ask about the intellectual and humanistic life of German Central Europe. One sees clearly in a retrospective examination of Luft's career that Robert Musil is the foundational intellectual influence. The reason for this may not be as obvious; from my perspective, Musil and Luft share the intellectual project of trying to understand human existence through a rational model; however, their investigations question rationalism qua positivism and attempt to balance intellectual activity by exposing both its spiritual and scientific values. As Luft himself has suggested, it is a scholarly career defined by the challenge of translating "geistig." [End Page xviii] Of course, the characteristics of his methodology and his...

Patent Law and Innovation in Europe during the Industrial Revolution

Abstract Human capital, access to markets, and innovation-friendly institutions were important preconditions for the acceleration of technological change during the industrial revolution. In this context, the recent literature discusses the role of patents. Given their dual nature, patents may have either stimulated innovation through the creation of financial incentives for inventors or they may have hampered innovation, because they created monopolies that restricted the free flow of knowledge. For this reason, the overall effects of patents on innovation and, eventually, long-run economic growth are not clear. In order to develop a better understanding of the determinants of innovation, this special issue of the Economic History Yearbook therefore focuses on the causes and consequences of patent laws and patent law reforms in the nineteenth and early twentieth century in different European countries.

Central European History and the Holy Roman Empire

Central European History (CEH) began to appear at a crucial juncture in the historiography of the Holy Roman Empire. Of course its remit was much broader. Founded sixteen years before the British journal German History, Central European History, together with the Austrian History Yearbook (founded in 1965) and the East European Quarterly (founded in 1967), took over the role occupied between 1941 and 1964 by the Journal of Central European Affairs. Each of these US journals shared an openness to new approaches and to work on all periods since the Middle Ages, as well as a desire—in the words of CEH's inaugural editor, Douglas Unfug—to keep “readers abreast of new literature in the field …,” with “reflective, critical reviews or review articles dealing with works of central importance … [and] bibliographical articles dealing with limited periods or themes…”

Habsburg History, Eastern European History … Central European History?

Germany and all things German have long been the primary concern ofCentral European History(CEH), yet the journal has also been intimately tied to the lands of the former Habsburg monarchy. As the editor stated in the first issue, published in March 1968,CEHemerged “in response to a widespread demand for an American journal devoted to the history of German-speaking Central Europe,” following the demise of theJournal of Central European Affairsin 1964. The Conference Group for Central European History sponsoredCEH, as well as the recently mintedAustrian History Yearbook(AHY). Robert A. Kann, the editor ofAHY, sat on the editorial board ofCEH, whose second issue featured a trenchant review by István Deák of Arthur J. May'sThe Passing of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914–1918. The third issue contained the articles “The Defeat of Austria-Hungary in 1918 and the Balance of Power” by Kann, and Gerhard Weinberg's “The Defeat of Germany in 1918 and the Balance of Power.” That same year,East European Quarterlypublished its first issue.

Managing Tudor and Stuart Parliaments: Essays in Memory of Michael Graves. Edited by Chris R.Kyle. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell for the Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust. 2015. vii, 179 pp. Paperback £19.99. ISBN 9781119081951.

Parliamentary HistoryVolume 36, Issue 3 p. 391-393 Review Managing Tudor and Stuart Parliaments: Essays in Memory of Michael Graves. Edited by Chris R. Kyle. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell for the Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust. 2015. vii, 179 pp. Paperback £19.99. ISBN 9781119081951. Daniel F. Gosling, Daniel F. Gosling Gray's Inn, LondonSearch for more papers by this author Daniel F. Gosling, Daniel F. Gosling Gray's Inn, LondonSearch for more papers by this author First published: 19 October 2017 https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12300Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume36, Issue3October 2017Pages 391-393 RelatedInformation

In eigener Sache. 25 Jahre Jahrbuch unter neuer Leitung

Abstract As the Institute for Economic History at the GDR Academy of Science was being wound up following German reunion, the existence of the Economic History Yearbook was also threatened. Initially, its publication was only guaranteed for 1991, so in the early nineties the question was pertinent whether the Yearbook could be continued in a new form or whether it would be wound up too. As we know today, the Yearbook survived the “Wende” but with a new editorial and advisory board and a new concept. To mark the 25th anniversary of the new “Yearbook”, the editors called upon Toni Pierenkemper – as both first and long-standing Managing Editor – to provide his perspective on the situation in which the Yearbook was relaunched. The following insights are essentially based on his correspondence as managing editor today archived in Bochum.

A Parliamentary Miscellany: Papers on the History of the House of Lords, Published 1964–1991. By J.C.Sainty. (Parliamentary History: Texts & Studies, 10.) Oxford: Wiley‐Blackwell for the Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust. 2015. viii, 212 pp. Paperback £19.99. ISBN 9781119130352.

A Parliamentary Miscellany: Papers on the History of the House of Lords, Published 1964–1991. By J.C.Sainty. (Parliamentary History: Texts & Studies, 10.) Oxford: Wiley‐Blackwell for the Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust. 2015. viii, 212 pp. Paperback £19.99. ISBN 9781119130352.

Sir Thomas Duppa's Commonplace Book. Edited by AlasdairHawkyard and J.C.Sainty. (Parliamentary History: Texts & Studies, 11.) Oxford: Wiley‐Blackwell for the Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust. 2015. ix, 82 pp. Paperback £19.99. ISBN 9781119085997.

Parliamentary HistoryVolume 35, Issue 3 p. 367-369 Review Sir Thomas Duppa's Commonplace Book. Edited by Alasdair Hawkyard and J.C. Sainty. (Parliamentary History: Texts & Studies, 11.) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell for the Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust. 2015. ix, 82 pp. Paperback £19.99. ISBN 9781119085997. Euan C. Roger, Euan C. Roger The National ArchivesSearch for more papers by this author Euan C. Roger, Euan C. Roger The National ArchivesSearch for more papers by this author First published: 10 October 2016 https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12247Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume35, Issue3October 2016Pages 367-369 RelatedInformation

Bibliography of urban history 2015

The present bibliography is a continuation of and a complement to those published in the Urban History Yearbook 1974–91 and Urban History from 1992. The arrangement and format closely follows that of previous years. The list of abbreviations identifies only those periodicals from which articles cited this year have been taken, though many other journals are also checked.

The Curse of Discontinuity: Poland’s Economy in a Global Context, 1820-2000

Article The Curse of Discontinuity: Poland’s Economy in a Global Context, 1820-2000 was published on June 1, 2014 in the journal Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook (volume 55, issue 1).

Faction Displayed: Reconsidering the Impeachment of Dr Henry Sacheverell. Edited by MarkKnights. Wiley Blackwell for the Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust. 2012. vi + 132pp.The State Trial of Dr. Henry Sacheverell. Edited by BrianCowan. Wiley Blackwell for the Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust. 2012. xiii + 307pp.

Faction Displayed: Reconsidering the Impeachment of Dr Henry Sacheverell. Edited by MarkKnights. Wiley Blackwell for the Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust. 2012. vi + 132pp.The State Trial of Dr. Henry Sacheverell. Edited by BrianCowan. Wiley Blackwell for the Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust. 2012. xiii + 307pp.

The Strange Politics of Federative Ideas in East-Central Europe

Previous articleNext article No AccessContemporary Issues in Historical PerspectiveThe Strange Politics of Federative Ideas in East-Central Europe*Holly CaseHolly CaseCornell University Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 85, Number 4December 2013New Directions in Legal and Constitutional History Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/672531 Views: 268Total views on this site Citations: 8Citations are reported from Crossref © 2013 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Tara Zahra Against the World: The Collapse of Empire and the Deglobalization of Interwar Austria, Austrian History Yearbook 52 (Apr 2021): 1–10.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0067237821000047 References, (Apr 2020): 105–132.https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-493-420201009Laura Evans Contextualising Apartheid at the End of Empire: Repression, ‘Development’ and the Bantustans, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 47, no.22 (May 2019): 372–411.https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2019.1605705Kathryn Ciancia The Local Boundaries of the Nation: Borderland Guard Activists in Polish-Occupied Volhynia, 1919–1920, Slavic Review 78, no.33 (Nov 2019): 671–693.https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2019.229THEODORA DRAGOSTINOVA On ‘Strategic Frontiers’: Debating the Borders of the Post-Second World War Balkans, Contemporary European History 27, no.33 (May 2018): 387–411.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777318000243Udi Greenberg Protestants, Decolonization, and European Integration, 1885–1961, The Journal of Modern History 89, no.22 (Jun 2017): 314–354.https://doi.org/10.1086/691531WILLIAM SELINGER THE POLITICS OF ARENDTIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY: EUROPEAN FEDERATION AND THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM, Modern Intellectual History 13, no.22 (Dec 2014): 417–446.https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244314000560GIL RUBIN From Federalism to Binationalism: Hannah Arendt's Shifting Zionism, Contemporary European History 24, no.33 (Jul 2015): 393–414.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777315000223

Bibliography of urban history 2013

The present bibliography is a continuation of and a complement to those published in the Urban History Yearbook 1974–91 and Urban History from 1992. The arrangement and format closely follows that of previous years. The list of abbreviations identifies only those periodicals from which articles cited this year have been taken, though many other journals are also checked. There is an index of towns on p. 775.

The Rhine Crisis of 1840 and German Nationalism: Chauvinism, Skepticism, and Regional Reception

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Rhine Crisis of 1840 and German Nationalism: Chauvinism, Skepticism, and Regional Reception*James M. BrophyJames M. BrophyUniversity of Delaware Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 85, Number 1March 2013 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/668802 Views: 613Total views on this site Citations: 4Citations are reported from Crossref © 2013 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Tamar Kojman Germanness and religious universalism in the aftermath of the 1844 Trier pilgrimage, Nations and Nationalism 27, no.44 (Jun 2021): 1047–1062.https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12735James M. Brophy Irony and Popular Politics in Germany, 1800–1850, (Nov 2016): 29–48.https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56148-0_2Miroslav Šedivý The Austrian Empire, German Nationalism, and the Rhine Crisis of 1840, Austrian History Yearbook 47 (Jul 2016): 15–36.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0067237816000059Miroslav Sedivy Italy during the Rhine Crisis of 1840, European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire 22, no.33 (Jun 2015): 486–504.https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2015.1037724

Gross Fixed Capital Formation In The German Empire: An Investment Matrix for 1936

Article Gross Fixed Capital Formation In The German Empire: An Investment Matrix for 1936 was published on June 1, 2013 in the journal Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook (volume 54, issue 2).

Teaching & Learning Guide for: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics? Nineteenth Century Crime Statistics for England and Wales as an Historical Source

Teaching & Learning Guide for: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics? Nineteenth Century Crime Statistics for England and Wales as an Historical Source

Bibliography of urban history 2011

The present bibliography is a continuation of and a complement to those published in the Urban History Yearbook 1974–91 and Urban History from 1992. The arrangement and format closely follows that of previous years. The list of abbreviations identifies only those periodicals from which articles cited this year have been taken, though many other journals are also checked. There is an index of towns on p. x

James Robert Wegs (1937–2010), In Memoriam

James Robert (Bob) Wegs died, after a long struggle with lymphoma, on 14 July 2010. He was too much a scholar of modern Europe for it not to be mentioned that this was Bastille Day. A passionate and dedicated historian of Austria, Wegs served throughout the 1990s on the editorial board of the Austrian History Yearbook and the Executive Committee of the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History. His career reflects a certain chapter of U.S. history even as it forms part of the dynamic historiography of Central Europe.

Bibliography of urban history 2010

The present bibliography is a continuation of and a complement to those published in the Urban History Yearbook 1974–91 and Urban History from 1992. The arrangement and format closely follows that of previous years. The list of abbreviations identifies only those periodicals from which articles cited this year have been taken, though many other journals are also checked. There is an index of towns on p. 552

Bibliography of urban history 2009

This year has seen the introduction of the digital bibliography online. This is a searchable database of all the bibliographies contained in the Urban History Yearbook and past numbers of this journal. Containing over 33,000 citations, this is an invaluable resource for research.