State-Making in an Age of Revolution, 1830-1880

Christos Aliprantis is Associate Professor of Social Sciences at the American College of Thessaloniki. He studied history in Athens, Vienna, and Budapest, and obtained his PhD in modern European history from the University of Cambridge. He has worked and taught at the European University Institute, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and Ruhr University in Bochum. His research interests and publications deal with policing, state formation, migration, and nationalism in Central, East-Central, and Southeastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. Anna Ross is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield and co-editor of German History. Her first book, Beyond the Barricades: Government and State-Building in Post-Revolutionary Prussia, 1848-1858, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. She has published on a range of topics related to the 1848 revolutions, state-building, empire, and internationalisation. Anna is PI on the AHRC-funded project Imperial Afterlives (2022-5), which examines the end of Europe’s land empires and the creation of international zones after the First World War.

• Notes on Contributors IntroductionCHRISTOS ALIPRANTIS AND ANNA ROSSPart I Centralisation and its Limits Public Finance and the Limits of Centralisation in France, 1840–70JEROME GREENFIELDThe Emperor’s Desk: Public Service in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Role of the EmperorPETER BECKER AND JANA OSTERKAMPPart II Negotiated Settlements Unity, Uniformity, and Strict Discipline? State Police Surveillance in Hungary, 1849‒60ÁGNES DEÁK‘A Dead Letter in the Hands of Local Authorities’? Implementing Public Health Legislation in French Provincial Cities, 1850–60WILL CLEMENTSynchronising State and Society: Germany in the Networked AgeJEAN-MICHEL JOHNSTONPart III Creating New Idioms An Open Border for Two Bordered States: Basque Disputes and the Remaking of the Franco-Spanish Frontier, 1829–56TALITHA ILACQUABetween Local Communities and Interstate Police Cooperation: The Intendenti on the Border of the Kingdom of the Two SiciliesLAURA DI FIOREMonks, Revolutionaries, and the ‘Frivolity of Closing the Border’: The Austro-Swiss Conflict of 1853-1855 and the International Policing of DissentHELÉNA TÓTHPart IV Contesting Sovereignty Unification or State Formation? Norwegian Officers as Union Deconstructors, 1830–70 ROALD BERGExtraterritoriality, Political Policing, and Military Intelligence in Central Europe, 1815–71CHRISTOS ALIPRANTISThe French Military Occupation in the Papal States, 1849–66: Imperialism and Sovereignty at the time of Italian UnificationALESSANDRO CAPONEThe Mixed Courts of Egypt: A Reform Come True or European Trojan Horse? An Imbalanced Struggle over Statehood, Territoriality, and the Rule of Law in Egypt, 1840–82BEATRICE DE GRAAFPart V Conclusion ConclusionCHRISTOPHER CLARKIndex