1st Edition
Crime, Enlightenment, and Punishment Bureaucratic and Scientific Change in Habsburg Austria, 1750s–1820s
By Stephan Sander-Faes
Copyright 2025
256 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
