Challenges the accepted view that an oppressive Prussian state cast 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.
Challenges the accepted view that an oppressive Prussian state cast 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.
Florian Schui completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge. He was a research fellow at St. Edmund's College, at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) in Cambridge, and at the National University of Ireland in Galway. He has published extensively on the European history of political and economic ideas in the eighteenth century and beyond.
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Introduction 1: The paradoxes of state building 2: Urban navel gazing 3: Official perspectives on the towns 4: Taxation and its discontents 5: Religion and the state 6: A Prussian on liberty Conclusion: 'Le Sonderweg est mort, vive le Sonderweg?' Bibliography Index
Introduction 1: The paradoxes of state building 2: Urban navel gazing 3: Official perspectives on the towns 4: Taxation and its discontents 5: Religion and the state 6: A Prussian on liberty Conclusion: 'Le Sonderweg est mort, vive le Sonderweg?' Bibliography Index
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