Rebellious Prussians Urban Political Culture Under Frederick The Great And His Successors
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780199593965
Description: This work challenges the accepted view that an oppressive Prussian state casts a shadow on the development of civil society and sheds light on a little-known historical reality in which weak Hohenzollern monarchs - and a still weaker Prussian bureaucracy - were confronted with prosperous, fearless, and argumentative Prussian burghers.