Stephan Steiner is a professor at Sigmund Freud University Vienna and head of its Institute for Transcultural and Historical Research. His research interests include migration, minority, and Enlightenment studies; Reformation history; and the history of mentalities. Steiner has written numerous publications on extreme violence in early and late modernity, including the monograph No Longer Wanted: Deportation in the Early Modern Habsburg Empire and its European Context (2014) and the edited volume Gypsies in Early Modern Europe (2019).
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Glossary Abbreviations PART I. THE CONUNDRUM OF DEPORTATION AND COERCED LABOR 1. Forgotten Chapters in the History of Violence: Deportation in the Early Modern Habsburg Empire and Its European Surroundings 2. "An Austrian Cayenne": Forced Labor in the Early Modern Habsburg Empire 3. Austria's Penal Colonies: Deportation, Resettlement, and Detention in the Habsburg Empire PART II. PROTESTANTISM GOES UNDERGROUND 4. "Acting as if in a Republic Already": Carinthian Underground Protestants Rehearse the Uprising 5. Writing against Suffocation: Migrant Letters as Documents and Strategies of Survival 6. A Tale of Two Cities: Protestant Preachers and Private Tutors in Vienna under the Rule of Emperor Charles VI PART III. THE TEACHINGS OF GYPSY HISTORY 7. "Giving Short Shrift by Flogging, Hanging, and Beheading": A Gypsy Trial and Its Pitfalls 8. The Enemy Within: Gypsies as External and Internal Threat in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Holy Roman Empire 9. From Poisoned Pens to Procedural Justice: Remarks on Gypsy Agency 10. Out of the Past: The End of Gypsy Slavery in Bukovina PART IV. IN CONVERSATION WITH CARLO GINZBURG 11. There is No Meaning with a Capital "M": In Conversation with Carlo Ginzburg Notes Archival Sources Bibliography Index