Rebellious Prussians
| Titel: | Rebellious Prussians : urban political culture under Frederick the Great and his successors / Florian Schui |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2013 |
| Umfang: | X, 221 S. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9780199593965 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- List of Illustrations
- p. xi
- Introduction
- p. 1
- Historiography
- p. 7
- Sources
- p. 14
- 1
- The Paradoxes of State Building
- p. 16
- The father of the Prussian state
- p. 17
- The growing financial appetite of the state
- p. 19
- Town vs. country
- p. 21
- The making of Prussian burghers
- p. 24
- The military-fiscal state as seen from the towns
- p. 25
- The economics of the excise
- p. 29
- Soldiers in the town
- p. 32
- Religion and state building
- p. 34
- Sex and the Prussian town
- p. 40
- The 'state-free' schools of Prussia's towns
- p. 45
- 'Where individual life carries its own centre of gravity within itself'
- p. 47
- 2
- Urban Navel-Gazing
- p. 48
- Urban growth
- p. 50
- The causes of urban growth
- p. 54
- The wealth of towns
- p. 57
- Epicurean Prussians
- p. 58
- 'Wealth is a mother of poverty'
- p. 60
- The perils of wealth
- p. 61
- The perils of poverty
- p. 64
- The dangers of religious individualism
- p. 66
- Recalibrating relations with the state
- p. 68
- 3
- Official Perspectives on the Towns
- p. 75
- Knowing the towns
- p. 76
- For whose benefit?
- p. 81
- Tranquillity
- p. 82
- Prosperity
- p. 83
- The visible hand of the Prussian state
- p. 85
- Guided consumers
- p. 90
- The utility of specie
- p. 91
- An English bank for Prussia
- p. 93
- The long shadow of Colbert
- p. 95
- Start-up industry protection
- p. 95
- 4
- Taxation and its Discontents
- p. 101
- Membranes made of stone
- p. 102
- Making an administration one official at a time
- p. 104
- The creation of the Régie
- p. 107
- Taxpayer opposition
- p. 111
- The power of the written word
- p. 118
- The fall of the Régie
- p. 126
- After the end
- p. 133
- Reaping the benefits
- p. 134
- Long-term outcomes
- p. 138
- A soft landing for the Prussian state
- p. 139
- 5
- Religion and the State
- p. 144
- A new hymnal for Prussia
- p. 145
- Forms of resistance
- p. 147
- Frederick the Great flees from a flock of burghers
- p. 148
- The causes of rebellion
- p. 151
- Religious Realpolitik
- p. 153
- Woellner's machinations
- p. 155
- The intellectual origins of the edicts
- p. 157
- The dangers of 'self-thinking'
- p. 160
- Opposition to the edicts
- p. 165
- A people of 'self-thinkers'
- p. 172
- Woellner, Voltaire, and subversiveness
- p. 174
- 6
- A Prussian on Liberty
- p. 176
- On religion
- p. 178
- On education
- p. 182
- On scarcity and abundance
- p. 184
- On change
- p. 189
- On the limits of state action
- p. 191
- Conclusion: 'Le Sonderweg est mort, vive le Sonderweg?'
- p. 195
- Bibliography
- p. 199
- Index
- p. 217
