State, regions, and borders: single market formation and labor migration in the Habsburg monarchy, 1750-1918

This article discusses the position of the Habsburg Monarchy within the capitalist world-system. The Empire is interpreted as a semiperiphery of a world-system emerging in northwest Europe, and also conceived as a distinctive world-economy. The focus here is on internal borders as a means of analyzi...

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Published in:Review - Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations Historical Systems, and Civilizations, 2004-01, Vol.XXVII (2), p.135-177
Main Author: Komlosy, Andrea
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Borders
Habsburg Empire
History
Labour migration
Regions
Single European market
World economy
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Summary:This article discusses the position of the Habsburg Monarchy within the capitalist world-system. The Empire is interpreted as a semiperiphery of a world-system emerging in northwest Europe, and also conceived as a distinctive world-economy. The focus here is on internal borders as a means of analyzing different regions and the disparities between them. The internal borders within the Habsburg Monarchy were the objects of much public discussion in the period under consideration. My analysis is that a border's most important function is not that of closure and exclusion, but its capacity to establish interrelationships between one region and another, and to combine resources, without removing inequalities between regions. Reprinted by permission of the Fernand Braudel Center
ISSN:0147-9032