{"id":48083,"date":"2025-09-02T17:10:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=48083"},"modified":"2025-09-02T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:15:09","slug":"alexander-maxwell-and-dasa-licen-ed-habsburg-civil-servants-between-civil-society-and-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=48083","title":{"rendered":"Habsburg Civil Servants: Between Civil Society and the State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Edited by Alexander Maxwell and Da\u0161a Li\u010den<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Habsburg Empire\u2019s development into a modern nation state was, necessarily, bound up with the emergence of a vast bureaucratic network of civil servants. Responsible for addressing diverse social problems in areas such as education, public transportation, and health services, these officials enabled the Habsburg monarchy to maintain rule over geographically disparate domains. While Habsburg civil servants were often maligned as instruments of an oppressive regime, this volume provides a new perspective on their lives during the nineteenth century, spotlighting how they simultaneously constituted and challenged the state. In doing so, Habsburg Civil Servants reconceptualizes our understanding of the boundary between the realms of the state and the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">List of Illustrations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Introduction: Habsburg Civil Servants between Civil Society and the State \u2013 Da\u0161a Li\u010den, Alexander Maxwell&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chapter 1. Austrian Officials and the Making of the Polish-Ruthenian Divide, 1815-1848 \u2013 Hugo Lane<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chapter 2. Habsburg Officials and the \u201cSlavic Language\u201d \u2013 Alexander Maxwell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chapter 3. Identity Choices among State and County Officials in Late Habsburg Transylvania \u2013 Judit P\u00e1l, Vlad Popovici<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chapter 4. To Promote and Protect: Everyday Monarchism among Teachers and Prosecutors in the Bohemian Crownlands, 1869-1914 \u2013 Marco Jaimes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chapter 5. The Social Base of the Habsburg Bureaucracy: From Dalmatian Sektionschefs in Vienna to Bohemian Foresters in Kor\u010dula\/Curzola \u2013 Wolfgang G\u00f6derle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chapter 6. The Civil Service in the Factory: Trade Inspectors and Working-Class Politics in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1884\u20131914 \u2013 Zden\u011bk Neb\u0159ensk\u00fd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chapter 7. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Prague Police during the Street Politics around 1900 \u2013 David Smr\u010dek<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chapter 8. Civil-Military Relations on the Eve of the Great War: A Crisis in Habsburg Dalmatia? \u2013 John Deak<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chapter 9. The Right Man in the Right Place? Hans Loewenfeld-Russ and the Austrian Nutrition Office, 1914-1920 \u2013 J. Alexander Killion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About the Editors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alexander Maxwell<\/strong> is Associate Professor at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. Prior to taking up his position at Victoria University, he taught at universities in Swansea, Wales and Reno, Nevada, gaining his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2003. He is the author of Choosing Slovakia (London, 2009),Patriots Against Fashion (London, 2014) and Everyday Nationalism in Hungary (Berlin, 2019). Currently working on a book about the language-dialect dichotomy in government administrations, he has guest-edited issues of Nationalities Papers, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, The New Zealand Slavonic Journal, and the Journal of Nationalism, Memory, and Language Politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Da\u0161a Li\u010den<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maribor and a researcher at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She completed her PhD at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2021. Specializing in the fields of cultural anthropology, ethnology, and history, she is currently writing a book on late Habsburg Trieste&#8217;s bourgeoisie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">232 pages \/ 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Volume 37<\/strong> of the book series <strong>Austrian and Habsburg Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/MaxwellHabsburg\">https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/MaxwellHabsburg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MaxwellHabsburg.jpg?fit=400%2C598&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54767,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54767","url_meta":{"origin":48083,"position":0},"title":"Philipp Ther: The Sound of Habsburg \/ Der Klang der Monarchie. 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