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The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880
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.
Hungarian Culture and Politics in the Habsburg Monarchy 1711-1848
This book describes and analyzes the critical period of 1711-1848 within Hungary from novel points of view, including close analyses of the proceedings of Hungarian diets. Contrary to conventional interpretations, the study, stressing the strong continuity of traditionalism in Hungarian thought, society, and politics, argues that Hungarian liberalism did not begin to flower in any substantial way until the 1830s and 1840s. Hungarian Culture and Politics in the Habsburg Monarchy also traces and evaluates the complex relationship between Austria and Hungary over this span of time. Past interpretations have, with only a few exceptions, tilted heavily towards the Austrian role within the Monarchy, both because its center was in Vienna and because few non-Hungarian scholars can read Hungarian. This analysis redresses this balance through the use of both Austrian and Hungarian sources, demonstrating the deep cultural differences between the two halves of the Monarchy, which were nevertheless closely linked by economic and administrative ties and by a mutual recognition that co-existence was preferable to any major rupture.
Franz Anton Graf von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky (1778–1861)
Die österreichische Geschichte des Vormärz ist ohne die Kenntnis Kolowrats als einer der zentralen Akteure nicht hinreichend zu verstehen und zu erklären. Aufgrund der Komplexität seiner Themenschwerpunkte von der bisherigen Forschung weitgehend vernachlässigt, lässt sich anhand des äußerst umfangreichen, bisher kaum herangezogenen Archivmaterials die starke Position des Finanz- und Innenpolitikers in der Habsburgermonarchie verdeutlichen. Kolowrat verfügte über maßgeblichen direkten und indirekten Einfluss auf die Kaiser und auf wesentliche Handlungsträger seiner Zeit. Seine politische Biographie stellt damit die bisherige Vorstellung von einem absolutistischen Herrschaftssystem kritisch in Frage. Der Kaiser war zwar die letzte Instanz, seine Entscheidungen wurden aber von den maßgeblichen Ministern am Hof beeinflusst. Über Kolowrats Biograph ie werden somit Strukturen der Habsburgermonarchie in der Periode bis 1848 ersichtlich, in die er eng verwoben war und die er mit prägte.
