Vol. XXXII · 2001 · pp. 9-20 (12)

Alexander Grab, Pieter M. Judson, & James Miller

Download full article (74 KB) [subscribers only]

Abstract

In all likelihood, Reuben John Rath will be best remembered by Austrian historians for his achievements as an "academic entrepreneur," if only because enterprises like the Austrian History Yearbook have provided a common institutional bond that unites all of us in the field. Nonetheless, there are many scholars who will recognize him most for more solitary scholarly endeavors that he pursued with such persistence in European archives and with such painstaking care at the controls of a manual typewriter. Six decades of scholarship have produced three books and more than thirty articles in field-specific journals like the Journal of Central European Affairs, the Austrian History Yearbook, and Der Donauraum, as well as in the American Historical Review and the Journal of Modern History. Moreover, his work has made lasting contributions to three discrete fields of modern Austrian history. Hence the need to divide this historiographical retrospective into three segments on Napoleonic and Restoration Italy (by Alexander Grab), the Revolutions of 1848 (by Pieter M. Judson), and Engelbert Dollfuß (by James Miller).