Habsburg Civil Servants: Between Civil Society and the State
Alexander Maxwell · Daša Ličen
May 2025 · Austrian and Habsburg Studies Book 37 · Berghahn Books
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The Habsburg Empire’s 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.
About the author
Alexander Maxwell 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.
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