Charles W. Ingrao (Brown University, 1974) Professor Early Modern Europe and Habsburg History
Books:
The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Second edition, 2000.
The Hessian Mercenary State: Ideas, Institutions, and Reform under Frederick II, 1760- 1785. Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Josef I. Der "vergessene" Kaiser. Vienna: Styria Verlag, 1982. Revised and expanded German edition.
In Quest and Crisis: Emperor Joseph I and the Habsburg Monarchy. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1979.
Unlearnt Lessons: The Central European Idea and the Serbian National Program. Belgrade: with Lazar Vrkatić, International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, 2001.
Edited Works:
(editor), Passarowitz, 1718 (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2011) [with Nikola Samardžić and Jovan Pešalj]
(editor), Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies: a Scholars’ Initiative (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press and U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2009). Revised BCS edition: Suočavanje s jugoslovenskim kontroverzama (Sarajevo: BuyBook, 2010.) [with Thomas Emmert].
(editor), The Germans and the East (W. Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2007). (with Franz Szabo, ed.)
(editor), Resolving the Yugoslav Controversies: a Scholars’ Initiative, [Nationalities Papers, 32/4 (2004)]. Republished as Conflict in Southeastern Europe at the End of the Twentieth Century: a Scholars’ Initiative (New York & London: Routledge, 2006). (with Thomas Emmert, ed.)
(editor), The Austrian History Yearbook, XXVIII – XXXVII (1997-2006).
(editor), Imperial Principalities on the Eve of Revolution: The Lay Electorates [special issue of German History, 20/3, (2002)].
(editor), A Guide to the Central European Archives [The Austrian HistoryYearbook, XXIX (1998), special supplementary volume].
(editor), State and Society in Early Modern Austria. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1994.
(compiler), Politics and Society in the Holy Roman Empire, 1500-1806. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. [Journal of Modern History, 58, Supplement (Dec. 1986)].
Book Chapters:
“The Habsburg-Ottoman Wars and the Modern World,” in Charles Ingrao, Nikola Samardžić and Jovan Pešalj, eds., Passarowitz, 1718 (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2011)
"Habsburg vs. Ottoman: Motives and Priorities," in Plamen Mitev, Ivan Parvev and Maria Baramova, eds., Empires and Peninsulas:Southeastern Europe between Carlowitz and the Peace of Adrianople, 1699-1829 (Sofia: Lit, 2010) [with Yasir Yilmaz]
“Western Intervention in Bosnia: Operation Deliberate Force,” in Bruce Elleman, ed., Naval Coalition Warfare: From the Napoleonic Wars to Operation Iraqi Freedom (London, 2007).
“Die Transformation der österreichischen Barockmonarchie von ihrer Schaffung bis zum Zusammenbruch” in Peter Burgard, ed, Barock: Neue Sichtweisen einer Epoche (Vienna: Böhlau, 2001), 85-100.
"Stages of Development in the Balance of Power," in Peter Krüger, ed, The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848: Episode of Model? (Cambridge,2000).
"War and Legitimation in Germany in the Revolutionary Age," Reich or Nation? Mitteleuropa, 1780-1848, Wiesbaden: Steiner, (1998): 1-19.
"Between East & West: Nationalism and the Nation-State in Central Europe," in Slavenko Terzić, ed, Encounter or Conflict of Civilizations in the Balkans? [Historical Institute of the Serbian Academy, 15 (Belgrade, 1998)].
"Die Transformation der österreichischen Barockmonarchie von ihrer Schaffung bis zum Zusammenbruch" in Peter Burgard, ed, Baroque Revisions (Cambridge, MA, 1998).
"The Smaller German States." In „Enlightened Absolutism:’ Reform and Reformers in Later Eighteenth-Century Europe, ed. Hamish Scott, 221-243. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.
"Kameralismus und Militarismus im deutschen Polizeistaat: Der hessische Söldnerstaat." In Stände und Gesellschaft im Alten Reich, ed. Karl Otmar Fr. von Aretin, 171-185. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1989.
"The Legitimization of Political Institutions and the Resistance to Change in Early Modern Europe and America." In Ius Commune: Formen der Veränderungen von Recht und Gesellschaft durch Revolution, Reform, Restauration, ed. H. Mohnhaupt, 263-272. Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1988.
"Habsburg Strategy and Geopolitics During the Eighteenth Century." In War & Society in East Central Europe, II, eds. Béla Király, Gunther E. Rothenberg, and Peter Sugar, 49-66. Brooklyn College Studies, XI. New York: Brooklyn College Press, 1982.
"Landgrave Frederick II and Enlightened Absolutism in Hesse (1760-1785)." In Proceedings of the Eleventh Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, ed. John C. White, 68-75. 1981.
"Guerrilla Warfare in Early Modern Europe: The Kuruc War." In War and Society in East Central Europe I, eds. Béla Király and Gunther E. Rothenberg, 47-66. Brooklyn College Studies 10. New York: Brooklyn College Press, 1979.
Articles:
“Reconstructing History in the Former Yugoslavia: the Scholars’ Initiative,” The American Historical Review, 114 (2009), 947-962.
“Weapons of Mass Instruction: Schoolbooks and Democratization in Central Europe,” Contexts: The Journal of Educational media, Memory and Society (New York & Oxford: Berghahn, 2008).
“Democracy & Dissolution: Macedonia and the Fate of Yugoslavia,” in Dalibor Jovanović, ed., Makedonija I sosedite (Skopje, 2008).
“The Historic Preconditions of Regionalization: Vojvodina and the Legacy of Austria‟s „Southern Strategy‟,” Territorium, 3 (2005), 15-20. Serbian translation in Žurnal za sociologiju.
"The 'Mortar Massacres': a Controversy Revisited," Nationalities Papers, 32:4 (December 2004): 827-52 (with Benjamin Rusek).
“Armet e shakterrimit masiv” (Weapons of Mass Instruction: Schoolbooks and Ethnic Conflict), Kosova Observer, (December, 2004)
"Piety & Patronage: the Empresses-Consort of the High Baroque," German History 20 (2002), 20-43. (coauthored with Andrew L. Thomas). A shortened version will appear in Queenship in Europe 1660 - 1815: the Role of the Consort (Cambridge, 2003).
"Delegitimizing Multiculturalism: Cultural Elites in the Old and New Central Europe," Polemos (2003).
"A Pre-Revolutionary Sonderweg," German History, 20/3 (2002), 279-286.
“Understanding Ethnic Conflict in Central Europe: an Historical Perspective,” Nationalities Papers, 27:2 (June, 1999), 291-318, 331-32. Expanded Serbian edition: “Deset nenau
enih lekcija o Srednjoj Evropi - pogled istori ara,” in Charles Ingrao and Lazar Vrkati , Nenau ena Lekcija: srednjoeuropska ideja I srpski nacionalni program (International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights - Belgrade, 2001), 7-36.
"The Historical Preconditions of Regionalization: Vojvodina and the Legacy of Austria's 'Southern Strategy'," Regionalization and Decentralization in Southeastern Europe (2001).
"Understanding Ethnic Conflict in Central Europe: an Historical Perspective," Nationalities Papers, 27:2 (June 1999): 291-318, 331-32.
"The Revolutionary Origins of Europe‟s Twentieth-Century Holocausts," Proceedings of the 25th Consortium for Revolutionary Europe (1997), 24-33.
"Between Desperation and Timidity: Habsburg Statecraft and Generalship in the Napoleonic Wars," Proceedings of the 23rd Consortium on Revolutionary Europe (1996), 329-33.
"Ten Untaught Lessons about Central Europe: an Historical Perspective," Center for Austrian Studies Working Papers series (1996): 1-20.
“Razumevanje etničnih konfliktov v srednji Evropi,” Razprave in Gradivo Nr. 44 (Ljubljana: INV, 1994), 142 -157.
"Paul Schroeder‟s Eighteenth-Century Balance of Power: Stability or Anarchy?" The International History Review 16 (1994): 661-680.
"From the Reconquest to the Revolutionary Wars: Recent Trends in Austrian Diplomatic History, 1683-1815." The Austrian History Yearbook 24 (1993): 201-218.
"The Pragmatic Sanction and the Theresian Succession: A Reevaluation." Études Danubiennes, IX (1993): 145-161. An earlier version of the article was published in The Habsburg Dominions under Maria Theresa. Topics: A Journal of the Liberal Arts 34, ed. William McGill, 3-18, 1980.
"L‟Asburgo che volle d‟Italia." Storia e Dossier 6, no. 53 (July-August 1991): 48-53.
"Enlightened Absolutism and the German States." The Journal of Modern History 58 (1986): 161-180.
"The Problem of Enlightened Absolutism and the German States," The Journal of Modern History, 58 (1986), S161-80.
"The Hessian Mercenary State During the American Revolution." Studies in History and Politics. Études d’Histoire et de Politique 3 (1985): 115-124.
"Conflict or Consensus? Habsburg Absolutism and Foreign Policy, 1700-1748." The Austrian History Yearbook 19-20 (1983-84): 33-41.
"„Barbarous Strangers‟: Hessian State and Society during the American Revolution." The American Historical Review, 87 (1982): 954-976. "Guerrilla Warfare in Early Modern Europe: the Kuruc War," in Béla Király and Gunther E. Rothenberg, eds. War and Society in East Central Europe, I [Brooklyn College Studies, XI (1982)], 49-66.
"Habsburg Strategy and Geopolitics in the Eighteenth Century," in Béla Király and Gunther E. Rothenberg, and Peter Sugar, eds., War and Society in East Central Europe, II [Brooklyn College Studies, XI (1982)], 49-66.
"Empress Wilhelmine Amalia and the Pragmatic Sanction." Mitteilungen des österreichischen Staatsarchivs 34 (1981): 333-341.
Dictionary/Encyclopedia/Bibliography Entries:
The World Book Encyclopedia. Articles on Brunswick; Clausewitz; DeKalb; Europe, Franco- Prussian-War; [Emperor] Frederick I; [King] Frederick I; Frederick II; Frederick III; Frederick William, the Great Elector; Frederick William I; Habsburg; Holy Roman Empire; Louise of Brunswick-Lüneburg; Maria Theresa; Moltke; Pragmatic Sanction; Seven Weeks‟ War; Seven Years‟ War; Sigismund; von Steuben; Succession Wars; Wallenstein.
The New Book of Knowledge, ed. Grolier‟s articles on "Austria" and the "Habsburgs."
Review Essays:
"The German States and Habsburg Empire: Age of Absolutism 1650-1800," AHA Guide to Historical Literature, (1995).
"From the Reconquest to the Revolutionary Wars: Recent Trends in Austrian Diplomatic History 1683-1815," The Austrian History Yearbook, XXIV (1993), 201-18.
"Élite Culture, Government and Society during the Aufklärung." German History 7 (1989): 255-262.
"The Last Kaiser." In Magill’s Literary Annual 1978, 509-513. Sacramento: Salem Press, 1978.
Other:
“Challenges to Democracy in Montenegro,” blogs.america.gov/bythepeople/2009/10/29.
INTERVIEW: “Balkan Scholar’s Initiative works to confront the past,” International Affairs Forum Special Report, Fall 2009, 15-21.
“Democracy and Dissolution: the Case of Former Yugoslavia,” in Takehiro Togo, Jeffrey Levett and Negoslav Ostoji, eds., Inter-Ethnic Reconciliation, Religious Toleration and Human Security in the Balkans (Belgrade, 2007), 95-97.
“Weapons of Mass Instruction: Schoolbooks and Ethnic Conflict” (translated/published “Armet e shakterrimit masiv”), Kosova & Balkan Observer (2004).
“The Balance of Power: From Paradigm to Practice” in Peter Krüger and Paul W. Schröder, eds, “The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1818": Episode of Model in Modern History? (Münster-Hamburg-London, 2003), 77-82.
“Djindjić Knows that his Initiative will Fail,” Nedeljni Telegraf (Belgrade), 24 February 2003.
“Some Rules of the Road on Prosecuting War Crimes,” The Los Angeles Times, 3 April 2001.
“Weshalb das Haager Tribunal „selektiv‟ ist,” Tages-Anzeiger (Zürich), 3 March 2001, 2.
"The Yugoslav Republics Face the Millennium: Problems & Prospects," East European Studies, October/November 2000, 5-7.
"Handling Milosevic: Three Scenarios," Central Europe Review, August 2000, 1-9.
"Serbische Nöte," Tages-Anzeiger (Zürich), 3 June 2000, 2.
"Are we Condemned to Repeat History?" Newsday, 13 October 1999, A43.
"Bombing May not be Enough to Achieve Stability" Los Angeles Times, 12 April 1999, B5.
"Marschiert nach Belgrad," Die Weltwoche (Zürich), 8 April 1999, 13.
"Scholars against Milosevic," The New York Review of Books, 5 November 1998, 62.
"Urteilt die Verbrecher ab: Ein unabhängiger und internationaler Strafgericht würde abschrecken," Die Weltwoche (Zürich), 26 June 1998, 44.
"What the World Needs Now is a New Court," Newsday, 16 June 1998, A45, A48.
"A Dayton Update from Bosnia," East European Studies, February 1998, 7-8.
"Versuche der Annäherung: die multiethnische Gesellschaft auf dem Balkan noch eine Chance," Die Zeit, 27 November 1997, 16.
"Reviving the Balkans‟ Multiethnicity," The Providence Journal, 21 October 1997.
"Bosnia‟s Leaders Fight Own Pasts," Newsday, 24 October 1997.
"Mythen wider beb eres Wissen," Tages-Anzieger (Zürich), 12 September 1997. "Bosnia at the Crossroads," Austrian Studies Newsletter, Spring 1997.
"Bosnia‟s Day of Judgment," Brown Alumni Monthly, February 1997, 22-26.
"Suddenly Hot: Central European scholarship is no longer arcane," The Wesleyan Alumnus, November 1996, 14-18.
"Touring the Military Frontier," Liberal Arts Magazine, Purdue University, 4 (1996-1997), 24- 29.
"Purdue University‟s Text Organizer: Research Skills Improved." Edu: The Education Magazine of Digital Equipment Corporation 43 (1987): 27-29.
"„Introduction‟ to Politics and Society in the Holy Roman Empire 1500-1806." The Journal of Modern History 58 (1986): 1-2.