{"id":50898,"date":"2026-01-13T21:53:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=50898"},"modified":"2026-01-13T21:54:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:54:36","slug":"climbing-up-the-social-ladder-social-mobility-of-elites-in-east-central-europe-in-the-long-19th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=50898","title":{"rendered":"Climbing up the Social Ladder? Social Mobility of Elites in East-Central Europe in the Long 19th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Edited by Vlad Popovici, Alice Velkov\u00e1 and Martin Kle\u010dack\u00fd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Social mobility is about climbing the societal ladder, or switching to a better, more promising or rewarding position. But how does this work for those already atop or very close to it? Climbing up the Social Ladder? explores instances of social mobility among different types of positional, decisional and status-defined elites in East-Central Europe during the long 19th century, at individual or group level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Social Mobility of Elites in East-Central Europe in Historical Perspective. Introductory Study<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vlad Popovici, Alice Velkov\u00e1 and Martin Kle\u010dack\u00fd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Old and New Parliamentary Elites: Education, Professional, and Social Profiles of the Members of the Austrian Parliament, 1867 \u2013 1918<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Franz Adlgasser<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Metamorphosis of Parliamentarian Elites in Croatia, 1910 \u20131925<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Igor Vrani\u0107 and Leo Mari\u0107<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Social Origin, Denominational, and Family Networks Among the Romanian Political Elite in Transylvania. Case Study: Greek-Catholic and Orthodox Politicians (1861 \u2013 1918)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ana Victoria Sima and Marius Eppel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior State Officials \u2013 a Uniform Administrative Elite? The Example of Prague Crown Land Offices and Their Highest-Ranking Public Servants, 1868 \u20131918<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin Kle\u010dack\u00fd, Kl\u00e1ra Hul\u00edkov\u00e1 Tes\u00e1rkov\u00e1 and Alice Velkov\u00e1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bureaucracy of Russian Poland, 1870 \u2013 1905: A Profile of the Elite<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katya Vladimirov<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>An Immobile Society? The Political Role of the Hungarian Aristocracy in the Dualist Era \u2013 the Example of Transylvania<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judit P\u00e1l<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The Professors of the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Vienna From 1849 to 1914<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter Urbanitsch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of the Romanian Academy From Transylvania and Hungary (1866 \u20131948). A Case Study on the Social Mobility of the Intellectual Elite<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vlad Popovici<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"733\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"50899\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?attachment_id=50899\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Social-Ladder.jpg?fit=800%2C1117&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,1117\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Social Ladder\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Social-Ladder.jpg?fit=733%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Social-Ladder.jpg?resize=733%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50899\" style=\"width:426px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Social-Ladder.jpg?resize=733%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 733w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Social-Ladder.jpg?resize=215%2C300&amp;ssl=1 215w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Social-Ladder.jpg?resize=768%2C1072&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Social-Ladder.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Hardcover published on: October 21, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Front matter: 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Main content: 244<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coloured Illustrations: 45<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Open Access<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyterbrill.com\/document\/doi\/10.1515\/9783110749144\/html\">https:\/\/www.degruyterbrill.com\/document\/doi\/10.1515\/9783110749144\/html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50899,"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":[19,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-knjige","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Social-Ladder.jpg?fit=800%2C1117&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52868,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52868","url_meta":{"origin":50898,"position":0},"title":"Stephan Karl Sander-Faes, &#8220;Urban Elites of Zadar: Dalmatia and the Venetian Commonwealth (1540-1569)&#8221;","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"5. svibnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"U Zagrebu \u0107e na Festivalu povijesti Kliofest 2026. biti predstavljena knjiga \"Urban Elites of Zadar: Dalmatia and the Venetian Commonwealth (1540-1569)\", \u010diji je autor Stephan Karl Sander-Faes. 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