Anna Ross, "Beyond the Barricades: Government and State-Building in Post-Revolutionary Prussia, 1848-1858"
English | ISBN: 0198833822 | 2019 | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0198833822 | 2019 | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Beyond the Barricades is an original study of government after the 1848 revolutions. It focuses on the state of Prussia, where a number of conservative ministers sought to learn lessons from their experiences of upheaval and introduce a wave of reform in the 1850s. Using extensive archival research, the work explores Prussia's entry into the constitutional age, charting initiatives to transform criminal justice, agriculture, industry, communications, urban life, and the press. Reform strengthened contact with the Prussian population, making this a classic episode of state-building, but
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