Figures of Authority Contributions towards a Cultural History of Governance from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

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.