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1 online resource |
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Cover; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Historiography; Sources; 1. The Paradoxes of State Building; The father of the Prussian state; The growing financial appetite of the state; Town vs. country; The making of Prussian burghers; The military-fiscal state as seen from the towns; The economics of the excise; Soldiers in the town; Religion and state building; Sex and the Prussian town; The 'state-free' schools of Prussia's towns; 'Where individual life carries its own centre of gravity within itself '; 2. Urban Navel-Gazing; Urban growth; The causes of urban growth |
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The wealth of townsEpicurean Prussians; 'Wealth is a mother of poverty'; The perils of wealth; The perils of poverty; The dangers of religious individualism; Recalibrating relations with the state; 3. Official Perspectives on the Towns; Knowing the towns; For whose benefit?; Tranquillity; Prosperity; The visible hand of the Prussian state; Guided consumers; The utility of specie; An English bank for Prussia; The long shadow of Colbert; Start-up industry protection; 4. Taxation and its Discontents; Membranes made of stone; Making an administration one official at a time |
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The creation of the RégieTaxpayer opposition; The power of the written word; The fall of the Régie; After the end; Reaping the benefits; Long-term outcomes; A soft landing for the Prussian state; 5. Religion and the State; A new hymnal for Prussia; Forms of resistance; Frederick the Great flees from a flock of burghers; The causes of rebellion; Religious Realpolitik; Woellner's machinations; The intellectual origins of the edicts; The dangers of 'self-thinking'; Opposition to the edicts; A people of 'self-thinkers'; Woellner, Voltaire, and subversiveness; 6. A Prussian on Liberty; On religion |
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On educationOn scarcity and abundance; On change; On the limits of state action; Conclusion: 'Le Sonderweg est mort, vive le Sonderweg?'; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
Summary |
This work challenges the accepted view that an oppressive Prussian state casts 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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Political culture -- Germany -- Prussia -- History -- 18th century
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
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Political culture
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Prussia (Germany) -- History -- Frederick II, 1740-1786.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108068
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Prussia (Germany) -- History -- 1740-1815. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108070
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Germany -- Prussia
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780191651045 |
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0191651044 |
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9781299132788 |
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1299132782 |
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9780191750724 |
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0191750727 |
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