Crime, Enlightenment, and Punishment by Stephan Sander-Faes - 9781032722627

Crime, Enlightenment, and PunishmentBureaucratic and Scientific Change in Habsburg Austria, 1750s1820s\nAuthor(s): Stephan Sander-Faes\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032722627, 978-1032722627\nSynopsis\nThis 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.\n\nExemplarily focused on Lower Austria, the book ties together the bustling imperial capital of Vienna and its hinterlands, where there was little economic, political, and social change before 1850. Previously unused archival materials such as administrative paperwork and printed wanted notes, in combination with published educational and legal texts, allow for the analysis of how bureaucratic procedures, social norm.