Crime, Enlightenment, and Punishment: Bureaucratic and Scientific Change in Habsburg Austria, 1750s–1820s...

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Stephan Sander-Faes (University of Bergen, Norway)

Crime, Enlightenment, and Punishment

Bureaucratic and Scientific Change in Habsburg Austria, 1750s–1820s

Stephan Sander-Faes (University of Bergen, Norway)

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Routledge
01 May 2025

European history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Crime & criminology; Legal history

This book studies the social consequences of bureaucratic and scientific change during the transition to modern states and societies in the Age of Enlightenment, as it explores how the Habsburg Empire deployed new ways and means to integrate existing structures into supra-regional systems of order.

Exemplarily focused on Lower Austria, the book ties together the bustling imperial capital of Vienna and its hinterlands, where there was little economic, political, and social change before 1850. Previously unused archival materials such as administrative paperwork and printed wanted notes, in combination with published educational and legal texts, allow for the analysis of how bureaucratic procedures, social norms, and scientific change contributed to increasing exchange between Vienna, regional hubs such as Krems and Zwettl, and individual seigneurial holdings. Conceiving of these dynamics as a patchwork-in-progress, this study investigates state-making dynamics by transposing centralising norms and practices into everyday administration. It looks carefully at the intersections of local/central authority, offering a way beyond binary centre-periphery assumptions.

This volume will be of interest to scholars of the history of state-making in and beyond Europe. Its up-to-date discussion of the pertinent historiography will also be useful for undergraduate and graduate students and teachers of comparative politics.

By: Stephan Sander-Faes (University of Bergen Norway)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 470g
ISBN: 9781032722603
ISBN 10: 1032722606
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 01 May 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Lower Austria, Centre and Periphery 2. Everyday Administrators 3. The Vast Domain of Bureaucracy 4. The Material Culture of the Rural Poor 5. The Ides of Vormärz. Conclusion

Stephan Sander-Faes is Associate Professor of History at the University of Bergen’s Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion and Privatdozent of the University of Zurich, Switzerland.