Crime, Enlightenment, and Punishment

This book studies the social consequences of bureaucratic and scientific change during the transition to modern states and societies in the Age of Enlightenment, as it explores how the Habsburg Empire deployed new ways and means to integrate existing structures into supra-regional systems of order.

Stephan Sander-Faes is Associate Professor of History at the University of Bergen's Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion and Privatdozent of the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Introduction 1. Lower Austria, Centre and Periphery 2. Everyday Administrators 3. The Vast Domain of Bureaucracy 4. The Material Culture of the Rural Poor 5. The Ides of Vormärz. Conclusion