Habsburg Civil Servants

Between Civil Society and the State

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Alexander Maxwell, Daša Ličen, Dasa Licen, Dasa Ličen, Da¿a Li¿en

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The Habsburg Empire’s development into a modern nation state was, necessarily, bound up with the emergence of a vast bureaucratic network of civil servants. Responsible for addressing diverse social problems in areas such as education, public transportation, and health services, these officials enabled the Habsburg monarchy to maintain rule over geographically disparate domains. While Habsburg civil servants were often maligned as instruments of an oppressive regime, this volume provides a new perspective on their lives during the nineteenth century, spotlighting how they simultaneously constituted and challenged the state. In doing so, Habsburg Civil Servants reconceptualizes our understanding of the boundary between the realms of the state and the public.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-05-01
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt496 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAustrian and Habsburg Studies
Antal sidor232
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781805399711

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Alexander Maxwell is Associate Professor at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. Prior to taking up his position at Victoria University, he taught at universities in Swansea, Wales and Reno, Nevada, gaining his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2003. He is the author of Choosing Slovakia (London, 2009),Patriots Against Fashion (London, 2014) and Everyday Nationalism in Hungary (Berlin, 2019). Currently working on a book about the language-dialect dichotomy in government administrations, he has guest-edited issues of Nationalities Papers, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, The New Zealand Slavonic Journal, and the Journal of Nationalism, Memory, and Language Politics.

List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Habsburg Civil Servants between Civil Society and the StateDaša Ličen, Alexander Maxwell Chapter 1. Austrian Officials and the Making of the Polish-Ruthenian Divide, 1815-1848Hugo LaneChapter 2. Habsburg Officials and the “Slavic Language”Alexander MaxwellChapter 3. Identity Choices among State and County Officials in Late Habsburg TransylvaniaJudit Pál, Vlad PopoviciChapter 4. To Promote and Protect: Everyday Monarchism among Teachers and Prosecutors in the Bohemian Crownlands, 1869-1914Marco JaimesChapter 5. The Social Base of the Habsburg Bureaucracy: From Dalmatian Sektionschefs in Vienna toBohemian Foresters in Korčula/CurzolaWolfgang GöderleChapter 6. The Civil Service in the Factory: Trade Inspectors and Working-Class Politics in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1884–1914Zdeněk NebřenskýChapter 7. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Prague Police during the Street Politics around 1900David SmrčekChapter 8. Civil-Military Relations on the Eve of the Great War: A Crisis in Habsburg Dalmatia?John DeakChapter 9. The Right Man in the Right Place? Hans Loewenfeld-Russ and the Austrian Nutrition Office, 1914-1920J. Alexander KillionIndex

“This is an innovative and deeply researched collection of studies on the bureaucracy of the Habsburg Monarchy. Generalizations about the bureaucracy of central Europe abound, often casting it in a negative light as facelessly monolithic or menacing. This volume, by contrast, brings the Habsburg civil service to life, exploring its responses to various pressures and challenges across the sprawling central European state.” • Jakub Beneš, University College London“This [book] is of excellent quality concerning both the general approach and the wide array of topics in terms of the different institutions and fields of administrative practice and their geographical focus.” • Klemens Kaps, Johannes Kepler University Linz