John Deak
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Deak |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Deak |
| SIGNATURE | DEÁK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1194-3093 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy 1750–1774
The many wars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe put pressure on Europe’s ruling houses to develop new techniques for producing revenue to fund larger armies, build stronger fortifications, and bankroll longer campaigns. Scholars have described this dynamic in terms of the emergence of the fiscal-military state. In the words of Charles Tilly, ‘war makes the state and the state makes war’. Historians long have been able to exami…
Forging a Multinational State
The Habsburg Monarchy ruled over approximately one-third of Europe for almost 150 years. Previous books on the Habsburg Empire emphasize its slow decline in the face of the growth of neighboring nation-states. John Deak, instead, argues that the state was not in eternal decline, but actively sought not only to adapt, but also to modernize and build. Deak has spent years mastering the structure and practices of the Austrian public administration a…
Jan Vermeiren. The First World War and German National Identity
At the beginning of the First World War, Stefan Zweig wrote in the Neue Freie Presse that “out of neighborly friendliness emerges unity” and that “Germany’s fate has become inseparable from our own.” Zweig, who enjoyed an international reputation that would only increase after the war, would later regret his stance at the beginning of the First World War. But for a moment, he felt a vital connection between himself, a Viennese Jew, and his fellow…
Habsburg Studies within Central European History
Habsburg studies stand at a crossroads. We have come a long way since C. A. Macartney published his magisterial history, The Habsburg Empire , in 1968. He began his story with the death of Joseph II in 1790—and thus, for him and his narrative, with the beginning of the end of the monarchy. Macartney's narrative represented the best and most complete traditional story of decline and fall, according to which the ever-present push of modernity put t…
Rationed Life
Zensus und Ethnizität
Reviewed by: Zensus und Ethnizität: Zur Herstellung von Wissen über soziale Wirklichkeiten im Habsburgerreich zwischen 1848 und 1910 by Wolfgang Göderle John Deak Wolfgang Göderle, Zensus und Ethnizität: Zur Herstellung von Wissen über soziale Wirklichkeiten im Habsburgerreich zwischen 1848 und 1910. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2016. 331 pp. Wolfgang Göderle's book on the census in the Habsburg Empire sets out to understand the practices and processes …
How to Break a State
The Habsburg Empire's final years and its experience in the First World War have traditionally been a story of dysfunction and national disintegration. This article, by contrast, stresses that the prewar Habsburg state was far from dysfunctional and in many ways approximated its other nineteenth-century constitutionalist counterparts within Europe and across the world. Yet the war and the stresses surrounding it, especially along the seam of civi…
The Habsburg Empire
Stehen oder Fallen?’ Österreichische Politik im Ersten Weltkrieg
Count Karl Stürgkh, Prime Minister of the Austrian Half of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1911 to his untimely death at the hands of an assassin in 1916, reportedly remarked that turning Austria’s parliament into a field hospital was the greatest accomplishment of his political career. During the first three years of the war, that is what Austria’s parliament was, the ‘Military Convalescence Centre in the Imperial Parliament Building’. For decades in…
Forging A Multinational State
The Habsburg Monarchy ruled over approximately one-third of Europe for almost 150 years. Previous books on the Habsburg Empire emphasize its slow decline in the face of the growth of neighbouring nation-states. John Deak, instead, argues that the state was not in eternal decline, but actively sought not only to adapt, but also to modernize and build. Deak has spent years mastering the structure and practices of the Austrian public administration …
Military Culture and Popular Patriotism in Late Imperial Austria
Among military historians, the Habsburg Army has a poor reputation. Its poor showing in the First World War on the Eastern Front exposed the Austro-Hungarian state it served as a sad anachronism, which had neither the capability to field a modern army nor the ability to command its loyalty. Such historical tropes have had larger ramifications for historiography. Austrian military history has become largely neglected, while a sustained focus on fi…
The Great War and the Forgotten Realm
Untertanen, Staatsburger und Andere
The history of integration in Europe has become a hot topic. As Europeans face giving up national sovereignty in order to create a more unified European Union, they likewise face reports of their own ‘failed multiculturalism’ and inability to integrate foreign immigrants into their respective national cultures. Benno Gammerl, however, takes us back to deep roots of European conceptions of citizenship and national belonging. This is a work of comp…
The Great War and the Forgotten Realm
How to Break a State
The Habsburg Empire's final years and its experience in the First World War have traditionally been a story of dysfunction and national disintegration. This article, by contrast, stresses that the prewar Habsburg state was far from dysfunctional and in many ways approximated its other nineteenth-century constitutionalist counterparts within Europe and across the world. Yet the war and the stresses surrounding it, especially along the seam of civi…
Untertanen, Staatsburger und Andere
The history of integration in Europe has become a hot topic. As Europeans face giving up national sovereignty in order to create a more unified European Union, they likewise face reports of their own ‘failed multiculturalism’ and inability to integrate foreign immigrants into their respective national cultures. Benno Gammerl, however, takes us back to deep roots of European conceptions of citizenship and national belonging. This is a work of comp…
The Great War and the Forgotten Realm
Forging A Multinational State
The Habsburg Monarchy ruled over approximately one-third of Europe for almost 150 years. Previous books on the Habsburg Empire emphasize its slow decline in the face of the growth of neighbouring nation-states. John Deak, instead, argues that the state was not in eternal decline, but actively sought not only to adapt, but also to modernize and build. Deak has spent years mastering the structure and practices of the Austrian public administration …
Military Culture and Popular Patriotism in Late Imperial Austria
Among military historians, the Habsburg Army has a poor reputation. Its poor showing in the First World War on the Eastern Front exposed the Austro-Hungarian state it served as a sad anachronism, which had neither the capability to field a modern army nor the ability to command its loyalty. Such historical tropes have had larger ramifications for historiography. Austrian military history has become largely neglected, while a sustained focus on fi…
The Habsburg Empire
Stehen oder Fallen?’ Österreichische Politik im Ersten Weltkrieg
Count Karl Stürgkh, Prime Minister of the Austrian Half of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1911 to his untimely death at the hands of an assassin in 1916, reportedly remarked that turning Austria’s parliament into a field hospital was the greatest accomplishment of his political career. During the first three years of the war, that is what Austria’s parliament was, the ‘Military Convalescence Centre in the Imperial Parliament Building’. For decades in…
Zensus und Ethnizität
Reviewed by: Zensus und Ethnizität: Zur Herstellung von Wissen über soziale Wirklichkeiten im Habsburgerreich zwischen 1848 und 1910 by Wolfgang Göderle John Deak Wolfgang Göderle, Zensus und Ethnizität: Zur Herstellung von Wissen über soziale Wirklichkeiten im Habsburgerreich zwischen 1848 und 1910. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2016. 331 pp. Wolfgang Göderle's book on the census in the Habsburg Empire sets out to understand the practices and processes …
How to Break a State
The Habsburg Empire's final years and its experience in the First World War have traditionally been a story of dysfunction and national disintegration. This article, by contrast, stresses that the prewar Habsburg state was far from dysfunctional and in many ways approximated its other nineteenth-century constitutionalist counterparts within Europe and across the world. Yet the war and the stresses surrounding it, especially along the seam of civi…
Habsburg Studies within Central European History
Habsburg studies stand at a crossroads. We have come a long way since C. A. Macartney published his magisterial history, The Habsburg Empire , in 1968. He began his story with the death of Joseph II in 1790—and thus, for him and his narrative, with the beginning of the end of the monarchy. Macartney's narrative represented the best and most complete traditional story of decline and fall, according to which the ever-present push of modernity put t…
Rationed Life
Jan Vermeiren. The First World War and German National Identity
At the beginning of the First World War, Stefan Zweig wrote in the Neue Freie Presse that “out of neighborly friendliness emerges unity” and that “Germany’s fate has become inseparable from our own.” Zweig, who enjoyed an international reputation that would only increase after the war, would later regret his stance at the beginning of the First World War. But for a moment, he felt a vital connection between himself, a Viennese Jew, and his fellow…
Forging a Multinational State
The Habsburg Monarchy ruled over approximately one-third of Europe for almost 150 years. Previous books on the Habsburg Empire emphasize its slow decline in the face of the growth of neighboring nation-states. John Deak, instead, argues that the state was not in eternal decline, but actively sought not only to adapt, but also to modernize and build. Deak has spent years mastering the structure and practices of the Austrian public administration a…
Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy 1750–1774
The many wars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe put pressure on Europe’s ruling houses to develop new techniques for producing revenue to fund larger armies, build stronger fortifications, and bankroll longer campaigns. Scholars have described this dynamic in terms of the emergence of the fiscal-military state. In the words of Charles Tilly, ‘war makes the state and the state makes war’. Historians long have been able to exami…
Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · History (11 works) · Ancient history (9 works) · Empire (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Monarchy (7 works) · Central European national history (6 works) · Economic history (6 works) · Art (5 works)