The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 - (New Perspectives on Central and Eastern European Studies) (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- The formation of modern European states during the long 19th century was complicated and challenged by the integration of completely different territories and populations.
- About the Author: Borbala Zsuzsanna Török is senior research fellow at the Institute of Austrian Historical Studies, University of Vienna.
- 298 Pages
- History, Europe
- Series Name: New Perspectives on Central and Eastern European Studies
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Book Synopsis
The formation of modern European states during the long 19th century was complicated and challenged by the integration of completely different territories and populations. The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 builds on recent research to investigate the means of administrative, legal, and educational structures overlooked as part of the German sciences of the state. Integral to shaping imperial power for the process of Habsburg state-building, the science of Statistik (statistics) dissected and translated the states disparate territories it into empirically perceptible components.
About the Author
Borbala Zsuzsanna Török is senior research fellow at the Institute of Austrian Historical Studies, University of Vienna. She is the author of Exploring Transylvania: Geographies of Knowledge and Entangled Histories of a Multiethnic Province, 1790 - 1914 (Brill Publishers, 2015). She co-edited Berechnen/Beschreiben. Praktiken statistischen (Nicht-)Wissens 1750-1850 (Duncker & Humblot, 2015) with Gunhild Berg and Marcus Twellmann, as well as Negotiating Knowledge in Early-Modern Empires: a Decentered View (Palgrave, 2014) with László Kontler, Antonella Romano, and Silvia Sebastiani.