Publications of Thomas Prendergast    :chronological  alphabetical  combined listing:

%% Journal Articles   
@article{fds352464,
   Author = {Prendergast, TR},
   Title = {Yiddish-Language World History and the Emergence of a Jewish
             Nationalist Politics in Late Imperial Russia},
   Journal = {East European Jewish Affairs},
   Volume = {50},
   Number = {1-2},
   Pages = {78-94},
   Publisher = {Informa UK Limited},
   Year = {2020},
   Month = {May},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501674.2020.1774284},
   Doi = {10.1080/13501674.2020.1774284},
   Key = {fds352464}
}

@article{fds349398,
   Author = {Prendergast, TR},
   Title = {The Sociological Idea of the State: Legal Education,
             Austrian Multinationalism, and the Future of Continental
             Empire, 1880–1914},
   Journal = {Comparative Studies in Society and History},
   Volume = {62},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {327-358},
   Publisher = {Cambridge University Press (CUP)},
   Year = {2020},
   Month = {April},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417520000079},
   Abstract = {<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>If historians now
             recognize that the Habsburg Monarchy was developing into a
             strong, cohesive state in the decades before the First World
             War, they have yet to fully examine contemporaneous European
             debates about Austria's legitimacy and place in the future
             world order. As the intertwined fields of law and social
             science began during this period to elaborate a binary
             distinction between “modern” nation-states and
             “archaic” multinational “empires,” Austria, like
             other composite monarchies, found itself searching for a
             legally and scientifically valid justification for its
             continued existence. This article argues that Austrian
             sociology provided such a justification and was used to
             articulate a defense of the Habsburg Monarchy and other
             supposedly “abnormal” multinational states. While the
             birth of the social sciences is typically associated with
             Germany and France, a turn to sociology also occurred in the
             late Habsburg Monarchy, spurred by legal scholars who feared
             that the increasingly hegemonic idea of nation-based
             sovereignty threatened the stability of the pluralistic
             Austrian state. Proponents of the “sociological idea of
             the state,” notably the sociologist, politician, and later
             president of Czechoslovakia Tomáš Masaryk and the
             Polish-Jewish sociologist and jurist Ludwig Gumplowicz,
             challenged the concept of statehood advanced by mainstream
             Western European legal philosophy and called for a reform of
             Austria's law and political science curriculum. I reveal
             how, more than a century before the “imperial turn,”
             Habsburg actors came to reject the emerging scholarly
             distinction between “nations” and “empires” and
             fought, with considerable success, to institutionalize an
             alternative to nationalist social scientific
             discourse.</jats:p>},
   Doi = {10.1017/s0010417520000079},
   Key = {fds349398}
}

@article{fds316255,
   Author = {Prendergast, T},
   Title = {The Social Democrats of Scholarship: Austrian Imperial
             Peripheries and the Making of a Progressive Science of
             Nationality, 1885–1903},
   Journal = {Religions},
   Volume = {6},
   Number = {4},
   Pages = {1232-1248},
   Publisher = {MDPI AG},
   Year = {2015},
   Month = {December},
   url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10161/11695 Duke open
             access},
   Doi = {10.3390/rel6041232},
   Key = {fds316255}
}