The state of freedom : a social history of the British state since 1800 / Patrick Joyce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joyce, Patrick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

State, The--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.

State, The.

Liberty--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.

Liberty.

Liberalism--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.

Liberalism.

Political culture--Great Britain--History.

Political culture.

Politics and culture--Great Britain--History.

Politics and culture.

Public administration--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.

Public administration.

Postal service--Great Britain--History.

Postal service.

Great Britain--Politics and government.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 376 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is the state? The State of Freedom offers an important new take on this classic question by exploring what exactly the state did and how it worked. Patrick Joyce asks us to re-examine the ordinary things of the British state from dusty government files and post offices to well-thumbed primers in ancient Greek and Latin and the classrooms and dormitories of public schools and Oxbridge colleges. This is also a history of the 'who' and the 'where' of the state, of the people who ran the state, the government offices they sat in and the college halls they dined in. Patrick Joyce argues that only by considering these things, people and places can we really understand the nature of the modern state. This is both a pioneering new approach to political history in which social and material factors are centre stage, and a highly original history of modern Britain.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Section 1. The Powers of the State

1. Introduction: The social history of the state

2. Power, things and the coming of the technostate

Part I. The State of Things : Connecting

Section 2. 'Man is Made of the Post Office' : Making the Social Technical

3. The postal network becomes a system

4. Writing and postal technologies

Section 3. Postal Economy and Society : Making the Technical Social

5. Economising : the state and society

6. Postal society : learning the state

Section 4. Filing the Raj : Political Technologies of the Imperial State

7. Making centres

8. 'The faculty of arrangement'

Part II. The State of Men : Governing

Section 5. The Work of the State

9. The common knowledge of the state

10. The civil service statesman

Section 6. The Grammars of Governance : Pedagogies of the Powerful

11. Lineages of the liberal governor

12. Classics and the remaking of liberal education

Section 7. 'The Fathers Govern the Nation' : the Public School and the Oxbridge College

13. Making mastery

14. The domus

Section 8. Conclusion: Legacies of the Liberal Leviathan.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-107-23436-0

1-107-32662-1

1-107-33638-4

1-107-33235-4

1-107-33306-7

1-107-33472-1

0-511-84391-7

1-107-69455-8

1-299-25744-5

OCLC:

829243783