Habsburg civil servants

Titel: Habsburg civil servants : between civil society and the state / edited by Alexander Maxwell and Daša Ličen
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Veröffentlicht: New York; Oxford : berghahn, 2025
Umfang: vi, 224 Seiten : Karten ; 24 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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Austrian and Habsburg studies ; volume 37
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ISBN: 9781805399711
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Bemerkung: Austrian officials and the making of the Polish-Ruthenian Divide, 1815-1848 -- Habsburg officials and the "Slavic Language" -- Identity choices among state and county officials in Late Habsburg Transylvania -- To promote and protect: Everyday monarchism among teachers and prosecutors in the Bohemian Crownlands, 1869-1914 -- The social base of the Habsburg bureaucracy: From Dalmatian Sektionschefs in Vienna to Bohemian foresters in Korčula/Curzola -- The civil service in the factory: Trade inspectors and working-class politics in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1884-1914 -- Between a rock and a hard place: Prague police during the street politics around 1900 -- Civil-military relations on the eve of the great war: A crisis in Habsburg Dalmatia? -- The right man in the right place? Hans Loewenfeld-Russ and the Austrian Nutrition Office, 1914-1920
Zusammenfassung: "As the Habsburg Empire became a modern state, daily life in the Habsburg domains increasingly involved interactions with civil servants. Bureaucratic institutions addressed diverse social problems: education, public transportation, a post and telegraph system, health services, and an independent judiciary. This volume explores the lives of Habsburg civil servants of diverse professions and geographic locations from the nineteenth century. Chapters reveal the individual and collective agency they derived from their unique social position as servants of the state who simultaneously embodied bourgeois habitus. The volume enriches the field of Habsburg studies by examining civil servants as much more than particles in the faceless state machine but as human beings, which in turn helps explore the convoluted question of where the state ends and the public begins."-- Provided by publisher