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Rethinking Leviathan

The Eighteenth-Century State in Britain and Germany

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

AvJohn Brewer,Eckhart Hellmuth,Florence) Brewer, John (Professor of Cultural History, Professor of Cultural History, European University Institute,University of Munich) Hellmuth, Eckhart (Professor of Modern History, Professor of Modern History

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Rethinking Leviathan offers a new approach to the history of the modern state. It concentrates on the eighteenth century and on two cases, those of Britain and Germany. These two countries have always been test-cases for historians and social scientists looking at the development of the modern state because they have been seen as presenting the two main alternatives in the state-building process. Using a comparative study of the British and German states, including Prussia, it deconstructs certain clichés about them and forces us to rethink how to study states in the early modern era. The volume is less concerned with the theory of the state or the formal constitutional conditions under which governments operate than with their actual modus operandi. The subjects covered in this volume include some which have so far been ignored in reconstructing the history of the modern state.

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Utgivningsdatum1999-06-03
Mått146 x 224 x 28 mm
Vikt650 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies of the German Historical Institute London
Antal sidor412
FörlagOUP
ISBN9780199201891

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Introduction: Rethinking Leviathan ; Explaining Variation in Early Modern State Structure: The Cases of England the German Territorial States ; The Army and the State in Britain and Germany during the Eighteenth Century ; Reasonable Aims of Civil Society: Concerns of the State in German Political Theory in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries ; Eighteenth-Century Britain: In Search of the State and Finding the Quarter Sessions ; Servants of the Public-Servants of the Crown: Officialdom of Eighteenth-Century English Central Government ; The Prussian Bureaucracy Reconsidered ; The State in Germany: A Non-Prussian View ; Government and Administration: Everyday Politics in the Holy Roman Empire ; The State and the Poor: Eighteenth-Century England in European Perspective ; Manners and the Eighteenth-Century State: The Case of the Unsociable Englishman ; A Monument to Frederick the Great: Architecture, Politics, and the State in Late Eighteenth-Century Prussia ; Reform Absolutism and the Codification of Law: The Genesis and Nature of the Prussian General Code (1794) ; Codification, Consolidation, and Parliamentary Statute