Habsburg Encounters with Native America

Familiar Strangers
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-485-7180-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singerton, Jonathan

Krizova, Marketa

Burri, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures, Foreword, Introduction: Reencountering Native America from the Habsburg Lands, 1. The Royal Fifth and the Rights of Indians: Charles V and His Display of Mexican Material Culture, 2. Plumes of Power: Depictions of the Native American in Viennese Festival Culture before 1700, 3. Jesuit Missionaries from Central European Territories in Northwestern New Spain, 1680–1767, 4. “People of the Devil”—“People of Achilles”: The Representation of Native America in Religious Practice, Translations, and Collections in Hungary, 1670–1840, 5. Neither Red Enough nor Fierce Enough: The Construction of Native Americans in Nineteenth-Century Czech Culture, 6. “Poor Indians! Strangers in Your Own Land!”: The Attitude of a Hungarian Traveler Towards the Native Americans in Jacksonian America, 7. Myriad Missions: Native Americans and the Leopoldine Society, 8. Reencountering Trade Legacies, Indigenous Histories, and the Early Leopoldine Society Circle in the Vienna Weltmuseum, 9. The Seljan Brothers, Native Americans, and the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb, 10. Staged Representation: The Perception of Native Americans, “Ethnological Expositions,” and Wild West Shows in the German-Speaking Austro-Hungarian Press (1870–1918), 11. “Rothäute von Heute”: Deskaheh’s Petition for Recognized Indigenous Sovereignty at the End of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 12. Who Are the Indians? Hans Larwin and the Visualization of the Roma and Native Americans in Interwar Austrian Popular Art and Visual Culture, 13. Richard Erdoes, Red Power’s Ally, Afterword, Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.