Special Issue
Editorial 9
Ruling Elites from Feudalism to the Modern State
Jan Eivind Myhre
Academics as the Ruling Elite in 19th Century Norway. 21
Lea Leppik
Social Mobility and Career Patterns of Estonian Intellectuals in the Russian Empire. 42
Miloš Reznik
Elitenwandel, tschechische Nationsbildung und der böhmische Adel. 63
Andrea Pokludová
Forming Intelligentsia in Moravia and Silesia in the Second Half of the 19th and at the Beginning of the 20th Century. 82
Student Populations and the Changing Function of Universities
Pieter Dhondt
Ambiguous Loyalty to the Russian Tsar. The Universities of Dorpat and Helsinki as Nation Building Institutions. 99
Péter Tibor Nagy
The Problem of the Confessional Recruitment of the Students at the Faculties of the Humanities and Science of the Transylvanian University. 127
Victor Karady
Educated Elites in Pre-Socialist Hungary – 1867-1948. Issues, Approaches, Sources and Some Preliminary Results of an Overall Survey. 154
Julia Disson
Privileged Noble High Schools and the Formation of Russian National Elites in the First Part of the 19th Century. 174
The Transformation of Intellectual Professions
Peter Urbanitsch
The High Civil Service Corps in the Last Period of the Multi-Ethnic Empire between National and Imperial Loyalties. 193
Tibor Hajdu
Transformations of the Officer Corps in Hungary (1900-1940). 214
Lucian Nastasa
The Education of Romanian University Professors in Western Universities. 221
Georgeta Nazarska
Bulgarian Women Medical Doctors in the Social Modernization of the Bulgarian Nation State (1878-1944). 232
Comparative Perspectives
Christophe Charle
Elite Formation in Late Nineteenth Century: France Compared to Britain and Germany. 249
Jaap Dronkers
Declining Homogamy of Austrian-German Nobility in the 20th Century? A Comparison with the Dutch Nobility. 262
Fanny Colonna
Training the National Elites in Colonial Algeria 1920-1954. 285
Afrânio Garcia
Elite’s Recomposition and State-Building in Contemporary Brazil (1920-1964). 296
Mixed Issue
Methods
Matthias Groß
Georg Simmel und „die laute Pracht des wissenschaftlich-technischen Zeitalters“. 315
FORUM: „Joachim Radkau: Max Weber. Die Leidenschaft des Den¬kens.“ (Mit Beiträgen von Nils Freytag, Uta Gerhardt, Barbara Hahn, Gangolf Hübinger und Joachim Radkau). 331
Cliometrics
Claude Diebolt
Reassessment of German Aggregate Wage Earnings in the Long Run. 351
Alexey A. Rakov
Social and Economic Dimensions of Southern Ural Dekulaked Peasants (1930-1934). 359