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. "
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....