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Journal of Austrian-American History

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Journal of Austrian-American History
DisciplineCultural studies, history, political science
LanguageEnglish
Edited byMichael Burri
Publication details
History2017–present
Publisher
Penn State University Press (United States)
FrequencyBiannual
Open Access
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4J. Austrian-Am. Hist.
Indexing
ISSN2475-0905 (print)
2475-0913 (web)
LCCN2016209652
OCLC no.964078930
Links

The Journal of Austrian-American History is a biannual, open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Pennsylvania State University Press, and the flagship publication of the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies.[1]

The journal publishes new research, review essays, and other materials of significance that explore the historic relationship between the United States and Austria, including the lands of the historic Habsburg empire.

Content is interdisciplinary and emphasizes transatlantic exchange, across the fields of historical, political science, economics, law, and cultural studies.[2] The Journal is covered in the Scopus abstract and citation database, in the MLA Bibliography, and in ERIH PLUS. It is indexed and accessible via the digital library of the Scholarly Publishing Collective at Duke University Press.

Austrian-American relations

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By the mid-eighteenth century and the period of the American revolution, the Austrian-American relationship had already become significant.[3]

In 1820, appointed by Emperor Francis II, Alois von Lederer became the first Austrian Consul General to the United States. By 1829, with the blessing of Klemens von Metternich, Austrian religious and entrepreneurial elites had established the Leopoldine Society, a missionary endeavor founded to support Catholics in the United States, though in its early years, the Society devoted some of its greatest attention to Anishinaabe groups and Indigenous Peoples of the Upper Midwest.[4][5]

During the American Civil War, Habsburg elites, such as Charles Frederick de Loosey, the Austrian consul in New York, finessed a balance among U.S., Austrian, and Mexican interests.[6][7] Meanwhile, immigrants from across Austria-Hungary had begun to shape everyday life in the fields of media and commerce, popular and high culture, and more.[8] [9]

The First World War reconfigured Austrian-American relations, not least through the postwar redrawing of Austro-Hungarian borders and the financial reconstruction of the First Austrian Republic.[10][11] But inasmuch as the U.S. Senate had rejected the Treaty of Versailles, the process of reaching a U.S.-Austrian peace took a circuitous and prolonged path.[12]

These developments represent only a few of the highlights in a twentienth-century characterized by a series of bilateral achievements in political, economic, and diplomatic relations between the two countries.[13][14]

With few exceptions, as when the U.S. Justice Department barred Austrian president Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, American public opinion has only ocassionally registered the Austrian National Socialist past.

Following the Second World War, images, tropes -- and not least, revenue -- generated by the tourism industry did much to promote symbols of natural beauty, Alpine purity, and culture, and delivered a comforting, if forgetful, new gloss to the Austrian nation brand.[15] Meanwhile, the entertainment industry continues to reshuffle episodes in Austrian-American history, via familiar tropes of imperial Austria, the Cold War, "Coca-Colonization", and more.[16][17][18]

Published volumes

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The first volume of the Journal of Austrian-American History appeared in 2017. It included articles on Hungarian migrant marriages in the United States, a study of Austrian and Dustbowl refugees, as they appear in Hollywood cinema, and an assessment of Hip hop, Malcolm X, and Muslim activism in Austria.[19][20][21] The volume that followed featured a special issue on migration from Central Europe, together with articles on the ties between the industrialist and arts patron Walter Paepcke, the Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy, and an emerging Bauhaus sensibility in Chicago, among others.[22]

The Journal has also presented archival research foregrounding the correspondence of prominent Habsburg-Americans, with articles devoted to John R. Palandech (Ivan Palandačić), the well-known immigrant publisher, politician, and entrepreneur in Chicago, and an essay by Walter D. Kamphoefner on language and loyalty among German Americans during World War I.[23][24] Oral histories of American diplomatic personnel stationed in Vienna from 1945–55, recorded by the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, are also featured.[25]

The 2020 volume includes an investigation of Vienna and the British-American film production, The Third Man, as a locus classicus for postwar espionage, together with an assessment by Günter Bischof of Allied post-World War II occupation and nation-building, and its lessons for the future.[26][27] That same volume included a special issue on "Austrian Children and Youth Fleeing Nazi Austria," with four contributions, ranging from an essay on Ernst Papanek to an article on intracategorical complexity in the memoirs of young Jewish Austrian emigrants to the United States.[28][29][30] The 2021 volume contained a special issue on "Americans in Vienna 1945-1955", while the 2022 volume included a special issue on "Musical Diplomacy in Austrian-American Relations." In 2023, the journal devoted a special issue to the Hungarian-American scholar István Deák.

Editorial board

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The editorial board of the Journal of Austrian-American History is composed of Austrian history scholars in the United States and Europe, including Siegfried Beer, Peter Becker, Günter Bischof, Gary B. Cohen, Olivia Florek, Farid Hafez, Christian Karner, Teresa Kovacs, Nathan Marcus, Anita McChesney, Britta McEwen, Martin Nedbal, Nicole M. Phelps, Dominique Reill, and Julia Secklehner. Journal editor is Michael Burri.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Journal of Austrian-American History". www.psupress.org. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
  2. ^ Journal of Austrian-American history. 2017. OCLC 964078930.
  3. ^ Singerton, Jonathan (2022). The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy. The Revolutionary age. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-4821-8.
  4. ^ Singerton, Jonathan (2024-09-30). "A Spiritual Lacuna: The Austrian Leopoldine Society and the United States of America". Journal of Austrian-American History. 8 (2): 73–87. doi:10.5325/jaustamerhist.8.2.0073. ISSN 2475-0905.
  5. ^ Hayes, Patrick J. (2024-09-30). "Historical Sources for the Beginnings of Redemptorist Ministry with Native Americans, 1832–1837". Journal of Austrian-American History. 8 (2): 180–203. doi:10.5325/jaustamerhist.8.2.0180. ISSN 2475-0905.
  6. ^ Singerton, Jonathan (2021). The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy. Charlottesville. ISBN 978-0-8139-4823-2. OCLC 1287197677.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ Bertonha, João Fábio (2020). "Representing Austrian, American, and Mexican Interests: Consul Charles Frederick de Loosey in Emperor Maximilian's Diplomacy, 1864–1867". Journal of Austrian-American History. 4: 73–92. doi:10.5325/jaustamerhist.4.0073. ISSN 2475-0905. JSTOR 10.5325/jaustamerhist.4.0073. S2CID 234994791.
  8. ^ Kratochvíl, Matěj (2022-05-18). "Music as an Adaptation Strategy: The Hruby Family's Voyage from Cehnice to Cleveland". Journal of Austrian-American History. 6 (1): 1–13. doi:10.5325/jaustamerhist.6.1.0001. ISSN 2475-0905.
  9. ^ Nedbal, Martin (2022). "Czech-German Collaborations at the Metropolitan Opera in the Early Twentieth Century". Journal of Austrian-American History. 6: 14–43. doi:10.5325/jaustamerhist.6.1.0014. S2CID 258269989. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  10. ^ Marcus, Nathan (2018). Austrian reconstruction and the collapse of global finance, 1921-1931. Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 978-0-674-98258-1. OCLC 1030308116.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  11. ^ Suppan, Arnold (2019). The Imperialist Peace Order in Central Europe : Saint-Germain and Trianon, 1919-1920. Vienna. ISBN 978-3-7001-8635-9. OCLC 1134393329.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  12. ^ Phelps, Nicole M. (2022-10-18). "Rights without Ratification: How the US Government Found Its Way to Peace with Austria in the 1920s". Journal of Austrian-American History. 6 (2): 105–135. doi:10.5325/pennhistory.6.2.0105. ISSN 2475-0905. S2CID 258664283.
  13. ^ Bischof, Günter (2017). The Marshall Plan : saving Europe, rebuilding Austria : the European recovery plan, the ERP Fund, the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation. Hans Petschar (1st ed.). [New Orleans]. ISBN 978-1-60801-147-6. OCLC 1007133337.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  14. ^ The Vienna Summit and its importance in international history. Günter Bischof, Stefan Karner, Barbara Stelzl-Marx. Lanham. 2014. ISBN 978-0-7391-8557-5. OCLC 869556201.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  15. ^ Richter, Hannes R. (2024-06-12). "A Convenient Truth? Austrian Tourism and Nation Brand in the United States". Journal of Austrian-American History. 8 (1): 52–71. doi:10.5325/jaustamerhist.8.1.0052. ISSN 2475-0905.
  16. ^ Scholz, Anne-Marie (2021-12-01). "Preaching to the Unconverted: The Third Man (1949) as Historical Resource for Exploring the Topic of Americans in Vienna, 1945–1955". Journal of Austrian-American History. 5 (2): 157–179. doi:10.5325/jaustamerhist.5.2.0157. ISSN 2475-0905. S2CID 251748860.
  17. ^ Wagnleitner, Reinhold (1994). Coca-colonization and the Cold War : the cultural mission of the United States in Austria after the Second World War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-585-02898-2. OCLC 42329416.
  18. ^ World film locations. Vienna. Robert Dassanowsky. Bristol: Intellect Books. 2012. ISBN 978-1-84150-569-5. OCLC 775066509.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  19. ^ Oberly, James W. (2017). "Love at First Sight and an Arrangement for Life: Investigating and Interpreting a 1910 Hungarian Migrant Marriage". Journal of Austrian-American History. 1 (1): 69–97. doi:10.5325/jaustamerhist.1.1.0069. ISSN 2475-0905. JSTOR 10.5325/jaustamerhist.1.1.0069.
  20. ^ Vansant, Jacqueline (2017). "Austrian and Dustbowl Refugees Unite in Three Faces West (1940)". Journal of Austrian-American History. 1 (1): 98–116. doi:10.5325/jaustamerhist.1.1.0098. ISSN 2475-0905. JSTOR 10.5325/jaustamerhist.1.1.0098.
  21. ^ Hafez, Farid (2018). "From Harlem to the "Hoamatlond": Hip-Hop, Malcolm X, and Muslim Activism in Austria". Journal of Austrian-American History. 1 (2): 159–180. doi:10.5325/jaustamerhist.1.2.0159.
  22. ^ Journal of Austrian-American History. 2 (2). 2018. JSTOR 10.5325/jaustamerhist.2.1.issue-1.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  23. ^ Fischer-Nebmaier, Wladimir (2019). "John R. Palandech (1874–1956): The Many Faces of a Chicago Transatlantic Immigrant Media Man". Journal of Austrian-American History. 3 (1): 26–87. doi:10.5325/jaustamerhist.3.1.0026. ISSN 2475-0905. JSTOR 10.5325/jaustamerhist.3.1.0026. S2CID 214195945.
  24. ^ Kamphoefner, Walter D. (2019). "Language and Loyalty among German Americans in World War I". Journal of Austrian-American History. 3 (1): 1–25. doi:10.5325/jaustamerhist.3.1.0001. ISSN 2475-0905. JSTOR 10.5325/jaustamerhist.3.1.0001. S2CID 214312004.
  25. ^ "American Diplomatic Personnel in Austria, 1945–1955: Oral Histories from the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training". Journal of Austrian-American History. 3 (2): 124–161. 2019. doi:10.5325/jaustamerhist.3.2.0124. JSTOR 10.5325/jaustamerhist.3.2.0124. S2CID 239075402.
  26. ^ Riegler (2020). "The Spy Story Behind The Third Man". Journal of Austrian-American History. 4: 1–37. doi:10.5325/jaustamerhist.4.0001. JSTOR 10.5325/jaustamerhist.4.0001. S2CID 226400749.
  27. ^ Bischof, Günter (2020). "The Post–World War II Allied Occupation of Austria: What Can We Learn about It for Iraq in Successful Nation Building?". Journal of Austrian-American History. 4: 38–72. doi:10.5325/jaustamerhist.4.0038. ISSN 2475-0905. JSTOR 10.5325/jaustamerhist.4.0038. S2CID 226469224.
  28. ^ Vansant (2020). "Guest Editor's Introduction". Journal of Austrian-American History. 4: 93–95. doi:10.5325/jaustamerhist.4.0093. JSTOR 10.5325/jaustamerhist.4.0093.
  29. ^ Steinberg, Swen (2020). "On Austrian Refugee Children: Agency, Experience, and Knowledge in Ernst Papanek's "Preliminary Study" from 1943". Journal of Austrian-American History. 4: 111–128. doi:10.5325/jaustamerhist.4.0111. ISSN 2475-0905. JSTOR 10.5325/jaustamerhist.4.0111. S2CID 244335060.
  30. ^ Corbett, Tim (2020). "Jumbled Mosaics: Exploring Intracategorical Complexity in the Memoirs of Jewish Austrian (Youth) Emigrants to the United States". Journal of Austrian-American History. 4: 129–157. doi:10.5325/jaustamerhist.4.0129. ISSN 2475-0905. JSTOR 10.5325/jaustamerhist.4.0129. S2CID 244331094.
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