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More Equal than Others. The Crownland Lower Austria in the Habsburg Empire. The study of power in... more More Equal than Others. The Crownland Lower Austria in the Habsburg Empire. The study of power in the most important crownland of the Habsburg Monarchy is a regional history unlike any other. Lower Austria, as the political, economic and cultural centre of one of the great European monarchies, will be examined via perspectives from the new Habsburg studies and new imperial history. The focus lies on questions of political interaction and cooperation. Cooperation between governmental and non-governmental actors and hence both “from above” and “from below” will be illustrated using the example of agricultural or education policies, while the cooperation between the Austrian crownlands is outlined with respect to fiscal equalisation mechanisms. An entangled regional, state and imperial perspective is embedded in the concept of a “cooperative empire” and seeks to open up new programmatic questions.

Föderalismus in Deutschland

Beiträge zu Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs, 2011

BANK AUSTRIA CREDITANSTALT, WIEN (IBAN AT04 1100 0006 2280 0100, BIC BKAUATWW, BLZ 11000), KONTO-... more BANK AUSTRIA CREDITANSTALT, WIEN (IBAN AT04 1100 0006 2280 0100, BIC BKAUATWW, BLZ 11000), KONTO-NR. 00622 800 100, BAWAG/ÖSTERREICHISCHE POSTSPARKASSE, WIEN (IBAN AT976000000002365011, BIC OPSKATWW, BLZ 60000 ...

Föderalismus in historisch vergleichender Perspektive, 2015

Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte

This book is about the interconnections of religion and law in East Central European legal cultur... more This book is about the interconnections of religion and law in East Central European legal culture – or more precisely cultures. It delves into the role of religion in legal thought, in political constitutions, legal practice and performance, as well as in understandings of justice from the 16th century to 1939. At the core of the study are the Polish, Lithuanian, Belorusian and Ukrainian lands that were continuously inhabited by multiple religious communities and settlers of various religious belongings.

Administory

In 1910 the Crownland Moravia was confidentially granted a 5 million loan by the Viennese governm... more In 1910 the Crownland Moravia was confidentially granted a 5 million loan by the Viennese government. Moravia was heavily indebted and spent extensive expenditures for schooling, infrastructure and social welfare. The secret loan to Moravia was just one part of the multi-tiered system of fiscal flows in late Imperial Austria that was subject to emotionally heated debates. Since the budgetary power in the regional, transnational and imperial arenas came with determining the political priorities there, negotiations of the budget mirrored conflicting political camps often divided along national lines. On the imperial level, however, the same politicians forged transnational cooperation and new forms of transnational revenue sharing. Utterances of emotions were made more objective the higher the political level the crownland’s leading officials dealt with. The emotional side of fiscal politics, however, can be seen as a driving force in prioritising certain policy fields.

Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 2016

Nationalities Papers, 2016

In Galicia in 1848, petitions as to whether the province should be divided in two with a Polish a... more In Galicia in 1848, petitions as to whether the province should be divided in two with a Polish and a Ruthenian region moved thousands of people to action. Although the petitions were among the largest in the history of the Habsburg monarchy, the petition lists have never been researched in detail. Whereas the initiators of the petition for the partition were anxious to present a narrative of national and confessional unity for a “Ruthenian” Eastern Galicia suppressed by “Poles,” the counter-petitionists disputed the very existence of a Ruthenian nationality and chose a narrative of peaceful, conflict-free living together. A close reading of the petition lists reveals both conflict and co-existence. The lists with a checkered contrast of Cyrillic, Latin, and Hebrew scripts bear witness to what was a multi-ethnic and multi-confessional society. More than that, these sources prove impressively that the three large religious and ethnic communities – Poles, Ruthenians, and Jews – were i...

Austrian History Yearbook, 2016

The title“CooperativeEmpires”may seem contradictory—or even provocative—to many historians of emp... more The title“CooperativeEmpires”may seem contradictory—or even provocative—to many historians of empire. It is widely believed that one of the defining characteristics of an empire is the presence of little or no cooperation among its individual provinces. More than that: there is a deliberate separation between the provinces that can go so far as to become a prohibition against cooperation. In theory, at least, each province must communicate with the imperial center, but not with other provinces. This contradiction between empire and cooperation is neatly illustrated by a true family story. The story is set in the 1970s in Prague, on the western edge of that space that historians today describe as the Soviet Empire. My mother, an East German from East Berlin, was then working as an interpreter in Prague. She was sitting on the tram on the way to visit some Czech friends who shared her love of jazz music. A queasy feeling began to come over her as she recalled that she was in fact forb...