State of Freedom - A Social History of the British State Since 1800

Informationen zum Autor Patrick Joyce is Emeritus Professor of History, University of Manchester. He is a leading British social historian and has written and edited numerous books of social and political history, including Visions of the People (Cambridge University Press, 1991), The Oxford Reader on Class (1995), The Rule of Freedom (2003) and Material Powers (2010). Klappentext Patrick Joyce offers a bold and highly original contribution to the history and theory of the state. '(An) acute analysis of the state we're in.' Morning Star Zusammenfassung What is the state? The State of Freedom offers an important new take on this classic question by exploring what exactly the state did and how it worked. Patrick Joyce asks us to re-examine the ordinary things of the British state and the kinds of people who ran it. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the powers of the state; Part I. The State of Things: Connecting: 2. 'Man is made of the Post Office': making the social technical; 3. Postal economy and society: making the technical social; 4. Filing the Raj: political technologies of the imperial state; Part II. The State of Men: Governing: 5. The work of the state; 6. The grammars of governance: pedagogies of the powerful; 7. 'The fathers govern the nation': the public school and the Oxbridge College; 8. Conclusion: legacies of the liberal Leviathan.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Joyce, Patrick (University of Edinburgh) Joyce, Joyce Patrick
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2013
• EAN: 9781107007109
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00710-9
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Sociology, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Politics & government, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Constitution: government and the state