State-Making in an Age of Revolution, 1830-1880: (271 Proceedings of the British Academy)

How did states expand in the mid-nineteenth century? While scholars now associate the period after the 1848 revolutions with a striking increase in state activity, few have demonstrated how new state-building measures were put into practice. From France to Hungary and Scandinavia to Spain, State-Making in An Age of Revolution shows how officials went about implementing reform. With original contributions grounded in extensive archival research, this volume casts light on the scale at which officials relied on elites, professionals, and technical experts both inside and outside of government - and even from outside their own states - to carry out their expanding work. Together, these findings help us to re-think the reach and nature of growing states during these pivotal decades of change.

Table of Contents:
Notes on Contributors Introduction CHRISTOS ALIPRANTIS AND ANNA ROSS Part I Centralisation and its Limits Public Finance and the Limits of Centralisation in France, 1840–70 JEROME GREENFIELD The Emperor’s Desk: Public Service in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Role of the Emperor PETER BECKER AND JANA OSTERKAMP Part II Negotiated Settlements Unity, Uniformity, and Strict Discipline? State Police Surveillance in Hungary, 1849‒60 ÁGNES DEÁK ‘A Dead Letter in the Hands of Local Authorities’? Implementing Public Health Legislation in French Provincial Cities, 1850–60 WILL CLEMENT Synchronising State and Society: Germany in the Networked Age JEAN-MICHEL JOHNSTON Part III Creating New Idioms An Open Border for Two Bordered States: Basque Disputes and the Remaking of the Franco-Spanish Frontier, 1829–56 TALITHA ILACQUA Between Local Communities and Interstate Police Cooperation: The Intendenti on the Border of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies LAURA DI FIORE Monks, Revolutionaries, and the ‘Frivolity of Closing the Border’: The Austro-Swiss Conflict of 1853-1855 and the International Policing of Dissent HELÉNA TÓTH Part IV Contesting Sovereignty Unification or State Formation? Norwegian Officers as Union Deconstructors, 1830–70 ROALD BERG Extraterritoriality, Political Policing, and Military Intelligence in Central Europe, 1815–71 CHRISTOS ALIPRANTIS The French Military Occupation in the Papal States, 1849–66: Imperialism and Sovereignty at the time of Italian Unification ALESSANDRO CAPONE The Mixed Courts of Egypt: A Reform Come True or European Trojan Horse? An Imbalanced Struggle over Statehood, Territoriality, and the Rule of Law in Egypt, 1840–82 BEATRICE DE GRAAF Part V Conclusion Conclusion CHRISTOPHER CLARK Index