Rethinking Leviathan

• 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

articles of real merit and importance for eighteenth-century specialists, while the determination to examine not merely the atypical case or Prussia but also the smaller German states is welcome and succesfully accomplished.