Larry Wolff
Biographic Data
| ID | 534717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry Wolff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolff |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFF L |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0085-7720 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Maria Theresa: Empress; The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment
The Adriatic Origins of European Anthropology
Suspending life, controlling change: Cryotechnology, genetic identity, and ecological separation
The collection and freezing of plant seeds in gene banks has been an integral part of global biodiversity policy since the early twentieth century. In recent years, the use of cryopreservation technologies (the storage of biological material at temperatures as low as −196 °C) has been advocated as a complement to these strategies. This technology promises that it will be possible to freeze significantly more plant varieties for longer periods of …
Afterword: The World of Our Habsburg Parents and Grandparents (and Professors)
This afterword responds to the contributions of the other commentators and to their reflections about István Deák. The comment considers how his students and colleagues were influenced by his own perspective on Habsburg history, how they understood his approach to that history, and how their work reshaped the Habsburg field. The comment further surveys some of István Deák’s major publications to consider how his writings reshaped Habsburg history…
Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe
Regulating pests-material politics and calculation in integrated pest management
This paper attempts to shed some light on current biopolitics of food and environmental security by analyzing the strategy of Integrated pest management (IPM). IPM is an ecological form of pest management that emerged in the United States in the 1950s in response to the pesticide crisis and now informs numerous pesticide legislations around the world. The paper analyzes IPM as a governmental hinge that aims to reconcile the conflicting goals of f…
David Frick
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Operatic Albanians and singing Turks in the age of enlightenment and revolution
This article considers Albanian subjects in European operas of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, discussed in the context of the broader phenomenon of operas about Ottoman Turkish subjects and also with regard to more general European cultural perspectives on Albania and the Ottoman empire. The principal operas discussed include Antonio Vivaldi’s Scanderbeg, performed in Florence in 1718; a completely different treatment of that subjec…
Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe
Discovering Cultural Perspective: The Intellectual History of Anthropological Thought in the Age of Enlightenment
The past shall not begin: Frozen seeds, extended presents and the politics of reversibility
The article analyzes the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV) as a specific security technology created to deal with the ecological threat of biodiversity loss. Built in 2008 inside the Arctic Circle, the SGSV serves as a backup for 1,700 agricultural gene banks around the world. If seed collections are lost due to natural disasters or human error, the gene banks can request copies of their varieties from Svalbard and restore their collections to co…
Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery
Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge and ideas, leading to the establishment of spatial hierarchies defined as centres and peripheries. In recent decades, transnational and global history have contributed to a more inclusive understanding of intellectual and cultural exchanges that profoundly challenged the ways in which we draw our mental maps. \n \nCovering the early modern and modern periods, Re-Mapping Centre an…
Childhood and the Enlightenment
The Western Representation of Eastern Europe on the Eve of World War I: Mediated Encounters and Intellectual Expertise in Dalmatia, Albania, and Macedonia
Cultural Precedence and Reciprocity between Eastern Europe and Western Europe
Eastern Europe in the Eighteenth Century: Issues of Historiography
This article reviews recent historiography of Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century, and considers the possibility of a decline in this field since the end of the Cold War
"Kennst du das Land?" The Uncertainty of Galicia in the Age of Metternich and Fredro
During the Napoleonic wars the future existence of Habsburg Galicia was regarded as uncertain, and in the period following the Congress of Vienna the identity of the province was likewise unclear. The eighteenth-century creation of Galicia gave way to the nineteenth-century attempt to create Galicians and to discover a non-national provincial meaning of "Galicia," capable of reconciling and transcending national, religious, and linguistic differe…
The Anthropology of the Enlightenment
Contents PREFACE iiii Contributors iiii INTRODUCTION 1 Chapter One Discovering Cultural Perspective: The Intellectual History of Anthropological Thought in the Age of Enlightenment Larry Wolff PART I: Philosophical History and Enlightened Anthropology Chapter Two Barbarians and the Redefinition of Europe: A Study of Gibbon's Third Volume J. G. A. Pocock Chapter Three The Immobility of China: Orientalism and Occidentalism in the Enlightenment Anth…
Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia
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The Global Perspective of Enlightened Travelers: Philosophic Geography from Siberia to the Pacific Ocean
This article begins by discussing the phrase ‘philosophic geography’, as noted in the journal of John Ledyard in the 1780s, in the context of his project to walk round the world and, particularly, to cross Siberia to reach North America. The concept of ‘philosophic geography’ was related to Ledyard's sense of the difference between ‘civilisation and incivilisation’, and involved making judgements about lands and peoples according to the supposedl…
Revising Eastern Europe: Memory and the Nation in Recent Historiography
Commentary: The Operatic Tragedy of Central Europe
The operas of Leos Janacek-such as Jenufa and Katya Kabanova-illustrate the nature of operatic modernism in relation to history and folklore in the context of the Habsburg monarchy and postwar Central Europe. In the performance history of the operas, moving from Janacek's city of Brno, Moravia, to such cosmopolitan capitals as Prague, Vienna, Berlin, and even New York, the case of Janacek also suggests the complex relationship between provincial,…
The Operatic Tragedy of Central Europe
Jews and Queers: Symptoms of Modernity in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna
“We have all suffered,” remarked the Austrian chancellor Leopold Figl in 1946, looking back at Austria during the Nazi period (p. 34). This blanket affirmation of Austrian victimhood became the ideological basis of the postwar Austrian state and mandated an inability or refusal to recognize that some Austrians had suffered rather more than others, while some Austrians had actively contributed to the suffering of others by their participation in t…
The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors
Robert L. BireleyS.J.The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 300 pp. index, illus. map. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-521-82017-0. - Volume 57 Issue 3
The past shall not begin: Frozen seeds, extended presents and the politics of reversibility
The article analyzes the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV) as a specific security technology created to deal with the ecological threat of biodiversity loss. Built in 2008 inside the Arctic Circle, the SGSV serves as a backup for 1,700 agricultural gene banks around the world. If seed collections are lost due to natural disasters or human error, the gene banks can request copies of their varieties from Svalbard and restore their collections to co…
Voltaire's Public and the Idea of Eastern Europe: Toward a Literary Sociology of Continental Division
The public sphere, according to Habermas, is “in principle inclusive,“ so much so that “however exclusive the public might be in any given instance, it could never close itself off entirely and become consolidated as a clique; for it always understood and found itself immersed within a more inclusive public of all private people.” Further, Habermas specifies that “the public sphere of civil society stood or fell with the principle of universal ac…
Inventing Galicia: Messianic Josephinism and the Recasting of Partitioned Poland
In this article Larry Wolff considers the creation of Galicia in 1772 as an act of invention, the concoction of a brand-new geopolitical entity for the ideological legitimation of the Habsburg acquisitions in the first partition of Poland. Afterwards, especially under the auspices of Joseph II, Galicia was constructed both administratively and culturally, and the arbitrarily conceived province received form and meaning. The article considers publ…
Regulating pests-material politics and calculation in integrated pest management
This paper attempts to shed some light on current biopolitics of food and environmental security by analyzing the strategy of Integrated pest management (IPM). IPM is an ecological form of pest management that emerged in the United States in the 1950s in response to the pesticide crisis and now informs numerous pesticide legislations around the world. The paper analyzes IPM as a governmental hinge that aims to reconcile the conflicting goals of f…
Venice and the Slavs of Dalmatia: The Drama of the Adriatic Empire in the Venetian Enlightenment
The earliest submission of the Dalmatian cities to Venetian sovereignty, around the medieval millennial year 1000, remained fundamental for the mythology of Venice's political culture right up to the end of the history of the republic in 1797. Giacomo Diedo, whose history of Venice was published in 1751, focused his attention upon "the first acquisitions of the Venetians in Dalmatia, which then might serve as a base for further advances." In fact…
Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia
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Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment
The Global Perspective of Enlightened Travelers: Philosophic Geography from Siberia to the Pacific Ocean
This article begins by discussing the phrase ‘philosophic geography’, as noted in the journal of John Ledyard in the 1780s, in the context of his project to walk round the world and, particularly, to cross Siberia to reach North America. The concept of ‘philosophic geography’ was related to Ledyard's sense of the difference between ‘civilisation and incivilisation’, and involved making judgements about lands and peoples according to the supposedl…
Revising Eastern Europe: Memory and the Nation in Recent Historiography
The Innocence and Natural Liberty of Morlacchia: European Identity, Enlightened Anthropology and the Ambivalent Significance of Gender among Noble Savages
Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840–1865
Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment
The Boys are Pickpockets, and the Girl is a Prostitute: Gender and Juvenile Criminality in Early Victorian England from Oliver Twist to London Labour
New Literary History - Volume 27, Number 2, Spring 1996
Religious Devotion and Maternal Sentiment in Early Modern Lent: From the Letters of Madame de Sevigne to the Sermons of Pere Bourdaloue
Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment
Voltaire's Public and the Idea of Eastern Europe: Toward a Literary Sociology of Continental Division
The public sphere, according to Habermas, is “in principle inclusive,“ so much so that “however exclusive the public might be in any given instance, it could never close itself off entirely and become consolidated as a clique; for it always understood and found itself immersed within a more inclusive public of all private people.” Further, Habermas specifies that “the public sphere of civil society stood or fell with the principle of universal ac…
Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment
Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment
The Boys are Pickpockets, and the Girl is a Prostitute: Gender and Juvenile Criminality in Early Victorian England from Oliver Twist to London Labour
New Literary History - Volume 27, Number 2, Spring 1996
Venice and the Slavs of Dalmatia: The Drama of the Adriatic Empire in the Venetian Enlightenment
The earliest submission of the Dalmatian cities to Venetian sovereignty, around the medieval millennial year 1000, remained fundamental for the mythology of Venice's political culture right up to the end of the history of the republic in 1797. Giacomo Diedo, whose history of Venice was published in 1751, focused his attention upon "the first acquisitions of the Venetians in Dalmatia, which then might serve as a base for further advances." In fact…
When I Imagine a Child: The Idea of Childhood and the Philosophy of Memory in the Enlightenment
Eighteenth-Century Studies - Volume 31, Number 4, Summer 1998
A Suburb of Europe: Nineteenth-Century Polish Approaches to Western Civilization
As in all peripheral countries of Europe, Polish intellectuals - conservatives, liberal, and (later) socialists - quarrelled about whether the Western model of liberal progress and industrial civilisation would suit and benefit their nation, or whether it would spell the ruin of its distinctive cultural features. This book tells the story of a century-long Polish dispute over the merits and demerits of the Western model. The debate revolved aroun…
Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840–1865
The Poetry and Prose of Everyday Life in Communist Kraków: Moths, Old Maids, and the Memoirs of Adam Zagajewski
This essay analyzes Adam Zagajewski's recent memoir W cudzym pigknie (Another beauty), in which he reflects particularly on the decades of the 1960s and 1970s, when he was a student and young poet in Kraków. The essay addresses Zagajewski's perspective on the city of Kraków, his reflections on communism in Wladyslaw Gomulka's Poland, his sense of the relations between older and younger Polish generations, and his efforts to negotiate a personal b…
The Innocence and Natural Liberty of Morlacchia: European Identity, Enlightened Anthropology and the Ambivalent Significance of Gender among Noble Savages
The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors
Robert L. BireleyS.J.The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 300 pp. index, illus. map. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-521-82017-0. - Volume 57 Issue 3
Inventing Galicia: Messianic Josephinism and the Recasting of Partitioned Poland
In this article Larry Wolff considers the creation of Galicia in 1772 as an act of invention, the concoction of a brand-new geopolitical entity for the ideological legitimation of the Habsburg acquisitions in the first partition of Poland. Afterwards, especially under the auspices of Joseph II, Galicia was constructed both administratively and culturally, and the arbitrarily conceived province received form and meaning. The article considers publ…
The Global Perspective of Enlightened Travelers: Philosophic Geography from Siberia to the Pacific Ocean
This article begins by discussing the phrase ‘philosophic geography’, as noted in the journal of John Ledyard in the 1780s, in the context of his project to walk round the world and, particularly, to cross Siberia to reach North America. The concept of ‘philosophic geography’ was related to Ledyard's sense of the difference between ‘civilisation and incivilisation’, and involved making judgements about lands and peoples according to the supposedl…
Revising Eastern Europe: Memory and the Nation in Recent Historiography
Commentary: The Operatic Tragedy of Central Europe
The operas of Leos Janacek-such as Jenufa and Katya Kabanova-illustrate the nature of operatic modernism in relation to history and folklore in the context of the Habsburg monarchy and postwar Central Europe. In the performance history of the operas, moving from Janacek's city of Brno, Moravia, to such cosmopolitan capitals as Prague, Vienna, Berlin, and even New York, the case of Janacek also suggests the complex relationship between provincial,…
The Operatic Tragedy of Central Europe
Jews and Queers: Symptoms of Modernity in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna
“We have all suffered,” remarked the Austrian chancellor Leopold Figl in 1946, looking back at Austria during the Nazi period (p. 34). This blanket affirmation of Austrian victimhood became the ideological basis of the postwar Austrian state and mandated an inability or refusal to recognize that some Austrians had suffered rather more than others, while some Austrians had actively contributed to the suffering of others by their participation in t…
The Anthropology of the Enlightenment
Contents PREFACE iiii Contributors iiii INTRODUCTION 1 Chapter One Discovering Cultural Perspective: The Intellectual History of Anthropological Thought in the Age of Enlightenment Larry Wolff PART I: Philosophical History and Enlightened Anthropology Chapter Two Barbarians and the Redefinition of Europe: A Study of Gibbon's Third Volume J. G. A. Pocock Chapter Three The Immobility of China: Orientalism and Occidentalism in the Enlightenment Anth…
Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
"Kennst du das Land?" The Uncertainty of Galicia in the Age of Metternich and Fredro
During the Napoleonic wars the future existence of Habsburg Galicia was regarded as uncertain, and in the period following the Congress of Vienna the identity of the province was likewise unclear. The eighteenth-century creation of Galicia gave way to the nineteenth-century attempt to create Galicians and to discover a non-national provincial meaning of "Galicia," capable of reconciling and transcending national, religious, and linguistic differe…
Eastern Europe in the Eighteenth Century: Issues of Historiography
This article reviews recent historiography of Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century, and considers the possibility of a decline in this field since the end of the Cold War
The Western Representation of Eastern Europe on the Eve of World War I: Mediated Encounters and Intellectual Expertise in Dalmatia, Albania, and Macedonia
Cultural Precedence and Reciprocity between Eastern Europe and Western Europe
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