Description
| Product ID: | 9780199201891 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Studies of the German Historical Institute London |
| Title: | Rethinking Leviathan |
| Subtitle: | The Eighteenth-Century State in Britain and Germany |
| Authors: | Author: Eckhart Hellmuth, John Brewer |
| Page Count: | 412 |
| Subjects: | History of ideas, History of ideas, Political science and theory, Constitution: government and the state, Political science & theory, Constitution: government & the state, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Germany, c 1700 to c 1800 |
| Description: | Offering an approach to the history of the modern state, this text concentrates on the 18th century and on two cases, those of Britain and Germany. Using a comparative study, it deconstructs certain cliches about the two states and forces one to rethink how to study states in the early modern era. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1999-06-03 |
