Table of Contents

Introduction
1: The paradoxes of state building
2: Urban navel gazing
3: Official perspectives on the towns
4: Taxation and its discontents
5: Religion and the state
6: A Prussian on liberty
Conclusion: 'Le Sonderweg est mort, vive le Sonderweg?'
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Florian Schui completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge. He was a research fellow at St. Edmund's College, at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) in Cambridge, and at the National University of Ireland in Galway. He has published extensively on the European history of political and economic ideas in the eighteenth century and beyond.

Reviews

Schui has successfully shown that examining resistance to fiscal and religious policy, rather than simply the glamour of eighteenth-century political radicalism, can inform us about Prussian and European history on a deep, engaging and critical level.
*David Taylor (University of Tasmania), European History Quarterly, Vol. 47*