Forging a Multinational State: State Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War, by John Deak

Newman, John Paul

doi:10.1093/ehr/cew418

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“…75 Austria's bureaucratic elites contributed to the modernization of empire, which created a dense network of trade and economic ties around the world. 76 Imperial elites were not responsible for the industrial development of the individual lands, but they initiated many administrative and social reforms that transformed agrarian and rural regions into a modern industrial society. 77 Historians also stated that decades before the Great War the authorities remained passive and kept the social legislation of the 1880s unchanged.…”

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Empire in the Cottage: Welfare Capitalism and Workers’ Housing Policy in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1880–1914

Nebřenský¹,

Herc

2023

Inter. Labor Working-Class Hist.

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This study focuses on welfare capitalism and workers’ housing policy in the Habsburg Empire on the eve of the Great War. It deals with the concessions for buildings containing healthy and affordable workers’ flats. The study argues that the existing research on welfare capitalism concentrated mostly on the entrepreneurs and industrialists as key actors in the building of workers’ flats. As the concessions for the building of workers’ houses suggest, the imperial authorities also maintained welfare capitalism and played a certain role in supporting the construction of workers’ housing. Through the concessions, authorities tried to regulate the company construction and to intervene into places of the everyday. They sought to enforce an appropriate lifestyle and to separate spaces for people of workers’ background, male and female workers, single workers, and workers’ families.

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Empire in the Cottage: Welfare Capitalism and Workers’ Housing Policy in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1880–1914

Nebřenský¹,

Herc

2023

Inter. Labor Working-Class Hist.

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“…Austrian rule also began with a very strict censoring of the Polish press and the oppression of all Polish attempts at self-government. Especially in the period 1849-1859, the so-called period of neoabsolutism-as a response to the failed 1848 revolution-the Austrian state intensified its attempts to control its entire territory, including through political repression in Galicia (Deak, 2015;Judson, 2016). Yet, after 1867, the Austrian state began to change its strategy of rule.…”

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When are Junctures Critical? The Legacies and Non-Legacies of Interruptions in Local Self-Government

Gingerich

Vogler

2023

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Interruptions in local self-government are a common feature of imperial rule and centralized authoritarianism. Extant scholarship considers interruptions in both contexts as potentially legacy-producing. But under which circumstances do these denials of political autonomy lead to sustained changes in political behavior? We develop a novel framework that elucidates when interruptions in local self-rule will or will not produce political legacies. Two factors are crucial: the duration of an interruption and the scope of repression. Enduring interruptions characterized by encompassing repression are the most likely to generate persistent changes. Contrariwise, transient interruptions characterized by limited repressiveness are unlikely to produce legacies. Given our theory's broad character, we conduct empirical analyses in two markedly different settings: Poland, which was split between three major empires, and Brazil, where a military regime installed appointed mayors in certain cities. Our results demonstrate that interruptions in local self-government have varying potential to create legacies.

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“…In accordance with the contemporary ideal of a dual-track administration, taken from Austrian legal thought, most of the new tasks belonged to the government rather than the autonomous realm. 35 Government agencies enforced the use of Hungarian in government functions.…”

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The Hungarian Nationalities Act of 1868 in Operation (1868–1914)

Berecz¹

2022

Slavic rev.

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The article investigates explicit and implicit state language policies in Dualist Hungary (1867–1918), focusing on its eastern Romanian, Hungarian, and German-speaking parts. It sets the regulation and practices against the benchmark of the linguistic rights outlined in the 1868 Nationalities Act, the earliest modern, liberal language law on the continent. This document served as a central reference for contemporaries, an importance also bequeathed to historiographical accounts. Building on the applied linguist Janny Leung's analysis, the first half of the article engages with features that the Nationalities Act shared with most provisions enshrining legal multilingualism worldwide: a legitimating function, the under-specification of several key sections, and the fact that it referred to institutions on the move. Next, the article turns to more unambiguous paragraphs of the law, distinguishing between those that fit into the logic and were exploited for symbolic politics and those with more immediate, practical consequences for large sections of the citizenry. It further probes into the dispersed agency, ideological and pragmatic motives, and the center-periphery dynamics behind the (non-)implementation of the law.

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Forging a Multinational State: State Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War, by John Deak

Cited by 5 publications

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Empire in the Cottage: Welfare Capitalism and Workers’ Housing Policy in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1880–1914

Empire in the Cottage: Welfare Capitalism and Workers’ Housing Policy in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1880–1914

When are Junctures Critical? The Legacies and Non-Legacies of Interruptions in Local Self-Government

The Hungarian Nationalities Act of 1868 in Operation (1868–1914)

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