Rethinking Leviathan : the eighteenth-century state in Britain and Germany / edited by John Brewer and Eckhart Hellmuth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brewer, John, 1947-

Hellmuth, Eckhart.

German Historical Institute in London.

Series:

Studies of the German Historical Institute London

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Politics and government.

Great Britain--Politics and government--18th century--Congresses.

Great Britain.

Germany--Politics and government--18th century--Congresses.

Germany.

Great Britain--History--18th century--Congresses.

Germany--History--18th century--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 402 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : German Historical Institute ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

A collection of essays originally presented at a conference which the German Historical Institute organized with the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0199201897

OCLC:

41660657