Patrick Joyce

State of Freedom (eBook, PDF)

A Social History of the British State since 1800

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What is the state? The State of Freedom offers an important new take on this classic question by exploring what exactly the state did and how it worked. Patrick Joyce asks us to re-examine the ordinary things of the British state from dusty government files and post offices to well-thumbed primers in ancient Greek and Latin and the classrooms and dormitories of public schools and Oxbridge colleges. This is also a history of the 'who' and the 'where' of the state, of the people who ran the state, the government offices they sat in and the college halls they dined in. Patrick Joyce argues that only by considering these things, people and places can we really understand the nature of the modern state. This is both a pioneering new approach to political history in which social and material factors are centre stage, and a highly original history of modern Britain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107330771
• Artikelnr.: 53494140

Autorenporträt

Patrick Joyce is Honorary Professor of History, University of Edinburgh, and Emeritus Professor of History, University of Manchester. He has also served in visiting Professorships in history and sociology, including at the University of California, Berkeley and San Diego; the London School of Economics; and the European University Institute in Florence.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the powers of the state
Part I. The State of Things: Connecting: 2. 'Man is made of the Post Office': making the social technical
3. Postal economy and society: making the technical social
4. Filing the Raj: political technologies of the imperial state
Part II. The State of Men: Governing: 5. The work of the state
6. The grammars of governance: pedagogies of the powerful
7. 'The fathers govern the nation': the public school and the Oxbridge College
8. Conclusion: legacies of the liberal Leviathan.