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Habsburg Encounters with Native America: Familiar Strangers
Author(s): Jonathan Singerton (Editor), Marketa Krizova (Editor), Michael Burri (Editor)
- Publisher: Central European University Press
- Publication Date: 20 Jun. 2025
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 324 pages
- ISBN-10: 9048571804
- ISBN-13: 9789048571802
Book Description
The central European lands of the Habsburg monarchy have long shared an intertwined past with the Indigenous inhabitants of the Americas. This volume focuses on the process of encountering these peoples as a continual action across several centuries that has produced numerous and varied instances of cultural dialogues, perspectives, and understandings. Moreover, this central European element is something that has not been considered in its own right before now and has been overshadowed by the focus on a wider Germanic fascination for Indigenous cultures. Breaking away from this wider narrative allows us not only to recover a more distinct historical connection but also uncovers the particular dynamics of direct and indirect contact between Indigenous worlds and that of the Habsburg monarchy.
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Review
--Howard Louthan, Professor of History at the University of Minnesota and Director Emeritus of the Center for Austria Studies
"This volume opens a door into the past, revealing historical encounters between Native Americans and the Austrian Empire. The essays in this collection allow us to discover historical interactions between Native Americans and Central Europeans at the time of the Habsburg Empire. A unique glimpse into the world of the Habsburg Empire and its relations with Native Americans. Discover European encounters with Native Americans in the Habsburg Empire. The essays in this book give life to historical interactions between Native Americans, central and eastern Europeans. A fascinating voyage through the early encounters between Native Americans and the Habsburg Empire. Travel into the unique world of the Habsburg Empire and discover its relations with Native Americans."
--Carlo Krieger, Institut Grand Ducal of Luxembourg and former Ambassador to Brazil of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
"This volume shows in an impressive way how the encounter between people from the Habsburg Empire and Native Americans was characterised by fascination and sincere interest. It reveals the complex relationship between appreciation, imagination, cultural appropriation and violence."
--Claudia Augustat, Curator of South American Collections at the Weltmuseum Wien
About the Author
Jonathan Singerton is Assistant Professor of Global Political History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in The Netherlands. His research focuses on the worldwide connections of the Habsburg lands in the early modern and modern eras. His first book, The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy, appeared in 2022 and he currently serves as the chief editor of a forthcoming Oxford Handbook focused on global Habsburg history.
Markéta Krízová is Professor of Ibero-American Studies at Charles University, Prague. Her research involves the history of overseas expansion, migrations and cultural transfers. Among her publications can be mentioned M. Krízová and J. Malecková (eds.), Central Europe and the Non-European World in the Long 19th Century, 2022.Michael Burri teaches in German Studies at Haverford College, is editor of the Journal of Austrian-American History, and the former President of the Austrian Studies Association (2021-2023). He has published on Austrian and Swiss film, and his articles have appeared in German Studies Review, Austrian History Yearbook, Journal of Austrian Studies, and New German Critique. His review essays and opinion pieces have appeared in leading Czech and American dailies, including Lidové noviny, Dnes, and The Washington Post. He is currently completing a book project on cultural diplomacy and the state in Austria.
