Miroslav Šedivý

Austrian Perceptions of America’s Role in the Emerging Global Order, 1840–1867

The project deals with US-Austrian relations in the mid-19th century and the way Austrian elites and broad public started to perceive the USA as both a new great power and an important player in European and world politics. In doing so, the project not only examines the intensified relations of high diplomacy but also explores how the mid-century public sphere reoriented discourse and policy and how Austria took stock of the new transatlantic framework and rethought its relationship to the western hemisphere.

Šedivý is a professor in general history at the University of Pardubice, the Czech Republic.