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

ISBN-13: 9780199201891 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 428 str.

John Brewer; Eckhart Hellmuth

Opis

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 states in the early modern era.
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Recenzje

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.