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Informationen zum Autor Ian F. McNeely is Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. Klappentext "A superbly crafted major intervention into the hotly contested issue of German civil society - its origins! formation! and fate. McNeely turns the tables on deconstructive approaches to formalism in writing and shows how writing was thoroughly implicated in state power and corporate culture."-David Sabean! author of Kinship in Neckarhausen! 1700-1870 "This work's use of archival evidence to overhaul grand theory puts it in a league of its own. McNeely crafts a startlingly original argument about the inventions of citizenship and of modern political culture. It will be required if unsettling reading for anyone pondering the legacies of Tocqueville! Habermas! or Foucault."-Richard Biernacki! author of The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain! 1640-1914 Zusammenfassung A comprehensive study of writing in its connection to bureaucracy, citizenship and the state in Germany, this text stitches together micro- and macro-level analysis to reconstruct the civic culture of the German southwest in the aftermath of the French Revolution and Napoleon's invasions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART I OFFICIAL POWER AND THE PAPER TRAIL Chapter 1 The civic landscape Political culture Social geography Mediating institutions Chapter 2 The tutelage of the scribes The formality of daily life Manipulations of authority Crisis in the writing trades Chapter 3 The Black Forest Cahier Political ventriloquism Networks of collegiality Provincials and cosmopolitans A breach of protocol Chapter 4 Constitutional fetishism Litigating local conflict Democratization by codification Heinrich Bolley v. the king Epilogue PART II INSCRIBING A SPACE OF FREEDOM Chapter 5 Transcending "textual serfdom" Administrative colonization Tutelage on a new terrain The reconstitution of politics Chapter 6 Reading! writing! and reform Edicts: the letter of the law Sociography and enforcement Knowledge entrepreneurs Chapter 7 Cataloging the social world Statistical topography Patriotic science Encyclopedism as local passion Chapter 8 The intelligence gazettes Popular Enlightenment Reaching the citizenry The market for information Conclusion Abbreviations Glossary Sources Notes ...
