U.S.-Habsburg relations from 1815 to the Paris peace conference : sovereignty transformed / Nicole M. Phelps, University of Vermont.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phelps, Nicole M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomatic and consular service, American--History.

Diplomatic and consular service, American.

Diplomatic and consular service, Austrian--History.

Diplomatic and consular service, Austrian.

Citizenship--United States--History.

Citizenship.

Immigrants--United States--History--19th century.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--United States--History--20th century.

United States--Foreign relations--Austria.

United States.

Austria--Foreign relations--United States.

Austria.

United States--Race relations--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 293 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study provides the first book-length account of US-Habsburg relations from their origins in the early nineteenth century through the aftermath of World War I and the Paris Peace Conference. By including not only high-level diplomacy but also an analysis of diplomats' ceremonial and social activities, as well as an exploration of consular efforts to determine the citizenship status of thousands of individuals who migrated between the two countries, Nicole M. Phelps demonstrates the influence of the Habsburg government on the integration of the United States into the nineteenth-century great power system and the influence of American racial politics on the Habsburg empire's conceptions of nationalism and democracy. In the crisis of World War I, the US-Habsburg relationship transformed international politics from a system in which territorial sovereignty protected diversity to one in which nation-states based on racial categories were considered ideal.

Contents:

Introduction: The Habsburg Empire and the United Statesin Transnational Perspective

Chapter 1: Community and Legitimacy: The Diplomatic Culture of the Great Power System

Chapter 2: Becoming a Great Power: U.S.-Habsburg Diplomatic Relations and the Integration of the United States into the Great Power System

Chapter 3: Protection and the Problems of Dual Citizenship: U.S. Consuls in the Habsburg Empire

Chapter 4: The Limits of State Building: Habsburg Consuls in the United States and the Protection of Lives and Property

Chapter 5: Racial Identity and Political Citizenship: American Challenges to Habsburg Sovereignty

Chapter 6: Giving Up on Austria-Hungary: The End of the Great Power System and the Shift to the Nationalist Successors

Chapter 7: Establishing Sovereignty: The Process of Aligning Race, Place, and Citizenship

Conclusion: After the peace.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-89037-9

1-107-24111-1

1-107-25074-9

1-107-24742-X

1-107-54634-6

1-107-24825-6

1-107-24991-0

1-139-02622-4

1-107-24908-2

OCLC:

863821745