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In the second half of the nineteenth century a new kind of social
and cultural actor came to the fore: the expert. During this period
complex processes of modernization, industrialization,
urbanization, and nation-building gained pace, particularly in
Western Europe and North America. These processes created new forms
of specialized expertise that grew in demand and became
indispensible in fields like sanitation, incarceration, urban
planning, and education. Often the expertise needed stemmed from
problems at a local or regional level, but many transcended
nation-state borders. Experts helped shape a new transnational
sphere by creating communities that crossed borders and languages,
sharing knowledge and resources through those new communities, and
by participating in special events such as congresses and world
fairs.
Building on the new critical historiography about the evolution of
the European state, the book analyses how administrators,
scientists, popular publicists and other actors tried to redefine
the realms of state action in the "Sattelzeit" (Koselleck). By
focussing on the specific strategies of these actors and on the
transnational circulation and dissemination of state related
knowledge itself, the contributors of the book highlight the
fluidity and the interconnections of the European debate in the
crucial period of the development of the modern nation-state and
its administration. They study the common European features of the
evolution of a new type of statehood built upon multiple
circulations and transfers that forged administrative practices in
the different fields of state action. Analysing important fields of
expertise ranging from agricultural knowledge, mining sciences to
anthropological knowledge, which laid the basis for the new
"scientific" foundations of administration, the book underlines the
necessity of a re-evaluation of the classical approaches to the
history of state in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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++++ Schweizergeschichtliche Studien Jakob Vogel Dalp, 1864
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