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Editor's Notes sAnd many Families foreseeing the Approach of the Distemper, laid up Stores of Provisions, sufficient for their whole Families, and shut themselves up, and that so entirely, that they were neither seen or heard of, till the Infection was quite ceased.Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague YearsThough in this age of Zoom and Skype, the social isolation that Defoe highlights in his description of London's Great Plague of 1665 may have been more extreme than what we are experiencing today, it is hard to underestimate or even understand at this point what is surely the greatest biological disaster of our lifetimes. The pandemic has touched virtually every aspect of our lives and has transformed how we work, eat, play, and—perhaps most importantly—relate to one another. Though the challenges of scholarly publishing may seem trivial in this larger context, they are nonetheless very real and have compelled us at the Austrian History Yearbook to learn to work differently. Our publisher, Cambridge University Press, quite literally stopped the presses last year until midsummer, and our subscribers were only able to access our content online. With offices shut at the University of Minnesota our editorial team has had to recalibrate as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Austrian History Yearbook Cambridge University Press

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota.
ISSN
0067-2378
eISSN
1558-5255
DOI
10.1017/S0067237821000163
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Abstract

sAnd many Families foreseeing the Approach of the Distemper, laid up Stores of Provisions, sufficient for their whole Families, and shut themselves up, and that so entirely, that they were neither seen or heard of, till the Infection was quite ceased.Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague YearsThough in this age of Zoom and Skype, the social isolation that Defoe highlights in his description of London's Great Plague of 1665 may have been more extreme than what we are experiencing today, it is hard to underestimate or even understand at this point what is surely the greatest biological disaster of our lifetimes. The pandemic has touched virtually every aspect of our lives and has transformed how we work, eat, play, and—perhaps most importantly—relate to one another. Though the challenges of scholarly publishing may seem trivial in this larger context, they are nonetheless very real and have compelled us at the Austrian History Yearbook to learn to work differently. Our publisher, Cambridge University Press, quite literally stopped the presses last year until midsummer, and our subscribers were only able to access our content online. With offices shut at the University of Minnesota our editorial team has had to recalibrate as

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Austrian History YearbookCambridge University Press

Published: May 1, 2021

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