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Beyond the Barricades - Government and State-Building in Post-Revolutionary Prussia, 1848-1858 (Hardcover)
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Beyond the Barricades - Government and State-Building in Post-Revolutionary Prussia, 1848-1858 (Hardcover)
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Beyond the Barricades is an original study of government after the
1848 revolutions. It focuses on the state of Prussia, where a
number of conservative ministers sought to learn lessons from their
experiences of upheaval and introduce a wave of reform in the
1850s. Using extensive archival research, the work explores
Prussia's entry into the constitutional age, charting initiatives
to transform criminal justice, agriculture, industry,
communications, urban life, and the press. Reform strengthened
contact with the Prussian population, making this a classic episode
of state-building, but Beyond the Barricades seeks to go further.
It makes a case for taking notice of government activity at this
particular juncture because the measures endorsed by conservative
statesmen in the 1850s sought to remove the feudal intermediaries
that had lingered long into the nineteenth century and replace them
with an array of government institutions, legal regimes, and
official practices. In sum, this book recasts the
post-revolutionary decade as a period which saw the transition from
an old to a new world, pivotal to the making of modern Prussia and
ultimately, modern Germany.
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