Rethinking Leviathan the eighteenth-century state in Britain and Germany
This book offers a new approach to the history of the modern state. It concentrates on the eighteenth century and on the cases of Britain and Germany. By using a comparative study of these two states, including Prussia, it deconstructs certain cliches about them and forces us to rethink how to study...
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London : Oxford :
German Historical Institute ; Oxford University Press
2004
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| Edición: | Reprint |
| Colección: | Studies of the German Historical Institute London
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- Introduction : rethinking Leviathan / John Brewer and Eckhart Hellmuth
- Explaining variation in early modern state structure : the cases of England and the German territorial states / Thomas Ertman
- The army and the state in Britain and Germany during the eighteenth century / John Childs
- Reasonable aims of civil society : concerns of the state in German political theory in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Diethelm Klippel
- Eighteenth-century Britain : in search of the state and finding the quarter sessions / J.A.W. Gunn
- Servants of the public, servants of the crown : officialdom of eighteenth-century English central government / John Brewer
- The Prussian bureaucracy reconsidered / Rudolf Vierhaus
- The state in Germany : a non-Prussian view / Sheilagh Ogilvie
- Government and administration : everyday politics in the Holy Roman Empire / Christof Dipper
- The state and the poor : eighteenth-century England in European perspective / Joanna Innes
- Manners and the eighteenth-century state : the case of the unsociable Englishman / Paul Langford
- A monument to Frederick the Great : architecture, politics, and the state in late eighteenth-century Prussia / Eckhart Hellmuth
- Reform absolutism and the codification of law : the genesis and nature of the Prussian General Code (1794) / Günter Birtsch
- Codification, consolidation, and parliamentary statute / David Lieberman.
