Readership: Historians, historical sociologists, political scientists
Edited by John Brewer, Professor of Cultural History, European University Institute, Florence, and Eckhart Hellmuth, Professor of Modern History, University of Munich
"articles of real merit and importance for eighteenth-century specialists, while the determination to examine not merely the atypical case or Prussia but also the smaller German states is welcome and succesfully accomplished." - American Historical Review, February 2001
"this book ... is most welcome. ... This collection is a veritable chocolate box of interests for anyone interested in eighteenth century history. Perhaps because the essays were first read as papers they avoid much of the academic verbosity that mars much historical writing nowadays." - Contemporary Review, January 2000
John Brewer and Eckhart Hellmuth: Introduction: Rethinking Leviathan Thomas Ertman: Explaining Variation in Early Modern State Structure: The Cases of England the German Territorial States John Childs: The Army and the State in Britain and Germany during the Eighteenth Century Diethelm Klippel: Reasonable Aims of Civil Society: Concerns of the State in German Political Theory in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries J. A. W. Gunn: Eighteenth-Century Britain: In Search of the State and Finding the Quarter Sessions John Brewer: Servants of the Public-Servants of the Crown: Officialdom of Eighteenth-Century English Central Government Rudolf Vierhaus: The Prussian Bureaucracy Reconsidered Sheilagh Ogilvie: The State in Germany: A Non-Prussian View Christof Dipper: Government and Administration: Everyday Politics in the Holy Roman Empire Joanna Innes: The State and the Poor: Eighteenth-Century England in European Perspective Paul Langford: Manners and the Eighteenth-Century State: The Case of the Unsociable Englishman Eckhart Hellmuth: A Monument to Frederick the Great: Architecture, Politics, and the State in Late Eighteenth-Century Prussia Gunter Birtsch: Reform Absolutism and the Codification of Law: The Genesis and Nature of the Prussian General Code (1794) David Lieberman: Codification, Consolidation, and Parliamentary Statute
