Rethinking Leviathan: The Eighteenth-Century State in Britain and Germany - Couverture rigide

 
9780199201891: Rethinking Leviathan: The Eighteenth-Century State in Britain and Germany
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ISBN 10 : 0199201897 ISBN 13 : 9780199201891
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1999

Synopsis

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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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

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. (American Historical Review, February 2001)

this book ... is most welcome. ... This collection is a veritable chocolate box of interests for anyone interested in eighteenth century history. Perhaps because the essays were first read as papers they avoid much of the academic verbosity that mars much historical writing nowadays. (Contemporary Review, January 2000)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199201897
ISBN 13 
9780199201891
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
412
Éditeur
Brewer John, Hellmuth Eckhart
Coordonnées du fabricant
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