The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880

Borbala Zsuzsanna Török is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Austrian Historical Studies, University of Vienna. She is the author of Exploring Transylvania: Geographies of Knowledge and Entangled Histories of a Multiethnic Province, 1790–1914 (Brill, 2015). She co-edited Berechnen/Beschreiben: Praktiken statistischen (Nicht-)Wissens 1750–1850 (Duncker & Humblot, 2015) with Gunhild Berg and Marcus Twellmann, as well as Negotiating Knowledge in Early-Modern Empires: A Decentered View (Palgrave, 2014) with László Kontler, Antonella Romano, and Silvia Sebastiani.

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