Proto-Totalitarian State - Punishment and Control in Absolutist Regimes

List of contents

1: Asocial Processes in the Context of Early Modern European History; 2: The Proliferation of Asocial Processes and the Problem of Control; 3: The Proliferation and Brutalization of Repression: Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; 4: The Apparatus of Repression and Control; 5: Education and Reeducation of the People: Execution as Actor, Teacher, and Priest; 6: Dealing with Vagabonds: Repression and Social Engineering; 7: The Result of the Repression

About the author

Dmitry Shlapentokh

Summary

Totalitarian rule is commonly thought to derive from spe- cific ideologies that justify the complete control by the state of social, cultural, and political institutions

Product details

• Authors: SHLAPENTOKH, Dmitry Shlapentokh, Dmitry (University of Indiana South B Shlapentokh, Shlapentokh Dmitry
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138516809
• ISBN: 978-1-138-51680-9
• No. of pages: 167
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, Politics & government, Politics and government, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship