Rebellious Prussians urban political culture under Frederick the Great and his successors / [electronic resource] :
Florian Schui.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- 1 online resource : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This work challenges the accepted view that an oppressive Prussian state casts a shadow on the development of civil society and sheds light on a little-known historical reality in which weak Hohenzollern monarchs - and a still weaker Prussian bureaucracy - were confronted with prosperous, fearless, and argumentative Prussian burghers.
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Political culture--History--Germany--Prussia--18th century.
Prussia (Germany)--History--Frederick II, 1740-1786. Prussia (Germany)--History--1740-1815.