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

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

Edited by John (Professor of Cultural History, Professor of Cultural History, European University Inst Brewer, Eckhart (Professor of Modern History, Professor of Modern History, University of Munich) Hellmuth

Part of the Studies of the German Historical Institute London series

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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.

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