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Rebellious Prussians - Urban Political Culture under Frederick the Great and his Successors (Hardcover)
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Rebellious Prussians - Urban Political Culture under Frederick the Great and his Successors (Hardcover)
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Prussian discipline is legendary. Central to debates about modern
German history is the view that an oppressive Prussian state cast a
shadow on the development of civil society. In particular,
historians have seen the absence of a revolution in the eighteenth
century as a symptom of a delayed and incomplete emancipation of
the Prussian bourgeoisie. Prussia's urban dwellers have often been
portrayed as poor relations of the self-reliant and assertive
bourgeois of Western Europe and the Atlantic world. Economically
backward and politically oppressed, they were allegedly in no
position to challenge the iron grip of the state and question the
authority of the Hohenzollern dynasty. Drawing from extensive and
original research, Florian Schui challenges the accepted view and
argues that Prussians in the eighteenth century were much more
willing to challenge the state than has been recognised. Schui
explores several instances where urban Prussians successfully
resisted government policies and forced Frederick the Great and his
successors to give in to their demands. Rebellious Prussians thus
sheds light on a little-known historical reality in which weak
Hohenzollern monarchs - and a still weaker Prussian bureaucracy -
were confronted with prosperous, fearless, argumentative, and
occasionally violent Prussian burghers. Such conflicts between
state and citizens were by no means unique to Prussia. Rather the
events in Prussia were, on many levels, connected to similar
contemporary developments in other parts of Europe and North
America. Florian Schui systematically explores these links and thus
develops a new European and Atlantic perspective on Prussian
history in the eighteenth century.
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