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The formation of modern European states during the long 19th century was complicated and challenged by the integration of completely different territories and populations. The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 builds on recent research to investigate the means of administrative, legal, and educational structures overlooked as part of the German sciences of the state. Integral to shaping imperial power for the process of Habsburg state-building, the science of Statistik (statistics) dissected and translated the states disparate territories it into empirically perceptible components.
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