Figures of Authority

Contents: Peter Becker/Rüdiger von Krosigk: New Perspectives on the History of Bureaucratic and Scientific Subjects - Erk Volkmar Heyen: Metaphern für «Ampts-Person» und «Ampts-Tugend» in lutherischen Regentenpredigten des späten 17. Jahrhunderts - Achim Landwehr: Welsch und wie er die Welt sah. Ein württembergischer Rentkammerrat und seine Wahrhafftige Reiss-Beschreibung - Milos Vec: Weisheit, Klugheit, Recht. Zur Psychogenese und Soziogenese des frühmodernen Staates - Ben Kafka: Hunting the Plumed Mammal. The History of «Bureaucracy» in France, 1750-1850 - Kirsten Winther Jørgensen: Towards the Angels. British Zoology and the Persona Sapientis, ca. 1660-1800 - Florian Schui: French Figures of Authority in the Prussian Fiscal Administration, c. 1766-1786 - Carolina Castellano: From «Despots of the Tribunals» to «Notable Functionaries». The Judicial Function in the Kingdom of Naples from the Napoleonic Era to the Restoration - Rui Branco: Fieldwork, Map-making and State Formation. A Case Study in the History of Science and Administration - Rüdiger von Krosigk: Contentious Authority. Bureaucrats and Bezirksräte in the Grand Duchy of Baden, c. 1831-1884 - Moritz Föllmer: Senior Civil Servants and Nationalism in Germany, 1900-1933 - Magali Gravier: Professional Statute and Identity Type. A Sociological Reading of the Staff Regulation of the European Union's Civil Servants.

The Editors: Peter Becker teaches modern and contemporary history at the University of Linz, Austria. He has held teaching and research positions at the European University Institute, Florence, at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, and at the Max-Planck-Institute of History, Göttingen. His main research interests are in the history of criminology, in the cultural history of state-building between the seventeenth and the twentieth centuries, and in the more recent history of 'neuro-politics'.
Rüdiger von Krosigk is Marie Curie Fellow (2007-2009) at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a Ph.D. in History and Civilisation from the European University Institute in Florence, and was Programme Co-ordinator of the Max Weber Programme for post-doctoral studies at the European University Institute. His main research interests are in the cultural history of state-building and public administration.