Proto-Totalitarian State - Punishment and Control in Absolutist Regimes

Totalitarian rule is commonly thought to derive from specific ideologies that justify the complete control by the state of social, cultural, and political institutions. This volume seeks to show that totalitarian or semi-totalitarian regimes have their roots in a fear of disorder that may overtake both rulers and the society at large.

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: Dmitry Shlapentokh, Shlapentokh Dmitry
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2006
• EAN: 9780765803665
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0366-5
• No. of pages: 169
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship