Rethinking Leviathan
Subtitle: the eighteenth-century state in Britain and Germany
By: edited by John Brewer and Eckhart Hellmuth.
Contributors: Brewer, John, 1947-; Hellmuth, Eckhart.; German Historical Institute in London.
Series: Studies of the German Historical Institute London
Publisher: German Historical Institute; Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
Subjects: Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century -- Congresses.; Germany -- Politics and government -- 18th century -- Congresses.; Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.; Germany -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
A collection of essays originally presented at a conference which the German Historical Institute organized with the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel--Foreword.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : rethinking Leviathan / John Brewer and Eckhart Hellmuth; title: Explaining variation in early modern state structure : the cases of England and the German territorial states / Thomas Ertman; title: The army and the state in Britain and Germany during the eighteenth century / John Childs; title: Reasonable aims of civil society : concerns of the state in German political theory in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Diethelm Klippel; title: Eighteenth-century Britain : in search of the state and finding the quarter sessions / J.A.W. Gunn; title: Servants of the public, servants of the crown : officialdom of eighteenth-century English central government / John Brewer; title: The Prussian bureaucracy reconsidered / Rudolf Vierhaus; title: The state in Germany : a non-Prussian view / Sheilagh Ogilvie; title: Government and administration : everyday politics in the Holy Roman Empire / Christof Dipper; title: The state and the poor : eighteenth-century England in European perspective / Joanna Innes; title: Manners and the eighteenth-century state : the case of the unsociable Englishman / Paul Langford; title: A monument to Frederick the Great : architecture, politics, and the state in late eighteenth-century Prussia / Eckhart Hellmuth; title: Reform absolutism and the codification of law : the genesis and nature of the Prussian General Code (1794) / Günter Birtsch; title: Codification, consolidation, and parliamentary statute / David Lieberman.