Luther's Legacy
Subtitle: The Thirty Years War and the Modern Notion of 'State' in the Empire, 1530s To 1790s
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781107111875
Subjects: Luther, martin, 1483-1546; State, the; Thirty years' war, 1618-1648; Reformation; Power (social sciences); Balance of power; Germany, history; Europe, politics and government, 1648-1789
Description: "In this new account of the emergence of a distinctive territorial state in early modern Germany, Robert von Friedeburg examines how the modern notion of state does not rest on the experience of a bureaucratic state-apparatus"--