Cover	1
	Contents	6
	Editors’ Introduction	8
	The State and Bureaucracy as a Key Field of Research in Habsburg Studies	14
	The Austrian Bureaucracy at the Nexus of State and Society	50
	The Formation of the Liberal Generation in Austria, c. 1830–1861. Education, Revolution and State Service	68
	The Legally Trained Civil Servants in Moravia and Silesia 1848–1918	98
	An Independent Judge in the Austrian Administration. The Example of Bohemia around 1900	110
	Running the Show in the Adriatic Provinces. The Last Three Austrian Governors in Trieste (1898–1918)	130
	Research on Hungarian High Officials in the Dual Monarchy. The Case of Transylvanian Lord-Lieutenants	150
	A Prosopographical Survey of the High Civil Service Corps of the Ministries in the Hungarian Part of the Dual Monarchy	168
	Bureaucrats at War. Konzeptsbeamte in the Austro-Hungarian Military Administrations in Poland, Serbia, Montenegro and Albania during the First World War	188
	The Conduct of Life of Austrian Civilian Government. Employees in the First Republic	214
	The Administrative Apparatus under Reconstruction	234
	After “Bureaucratic Absolutism”. A Search for New Paradigms in late Imperial Habsburg History	260
	Bibliography	276