The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880

Borbala Zsuzsanna Török (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

298 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-554-6 (ISBN)

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The formation of modern European states during the long 19th century was a complicated process, challenged by the integration of widely different territories and populations. The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 builds on recent research to investigate the history of statistics as an overlooked part of the sciences of the state in Habsburg legal education as well as within the broader public sphere. By exploring the practices and social spaces of statistics, author Borbála Zsuzsanna Török uncovers its central role in imagining the composite Habsburg Monarchy as a modern and unified administrative space.

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, 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.

List of Illustrations

Chronology

Online Annex

Concordance of Place Names

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Public and Arcane Statistical Knowledge (ca. 1770-1820)

Chapter 2. Statistics in the Legal Curricula (1790s-1860s)

Chapter 3. Regional Statistical Practices (ca. 1790s-1848)

Chapter 4. Descriptive Statistics and the Political Space of the Monarchy (1840s-1850s)

Chapter 5. The Eclipse of Descriptive Statistics (1850s-1880s)

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.05.2024
Reihe/Serie	New Perspectives on Central and Eastern European Studies
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	1-80539-554-8 / 1805395548
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-554-6 / 9781805395546
Zustand	Neuware