The state of freedom : a social history of the British state since 1800 /

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"What is the state? The State of Freedom offers an important new take on this classic question by exploring what exactly the state did and how it worked. Patrick Joyce asks us to re-examine the ordinary things of the British state from dusty government files and post offices to well-thumbed pri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Joyce, Patrick, 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Temas:
State, The > Social aspects > Great Britain > History.
Liberty > Social aspects > Great Britain > History.
Liberalism > Social aspects > Great Britain > History.
Political culture > Great Britain > History.
Politics and culture > Great Britain > History.
Public administration > Social aspects > Great Britain > History.
Postal service > Great Britain > History.
État > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Liberté > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Libéralisme > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Politique et culture > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Administration publique (Science) > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Liberty > Social aspects.
Political culture.
Politics and culture.
Politics and government.
Postal service.
Public administration > Social aspects.
Social conditions.
State, The > Social aspects.
Staat (politicologie)
Sociale aspecten.
Materiële cultuur.
Politieke geschiedenis.
Great Britain > Politics and government.
Great Britain > Social conditions.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement.
Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales.
Great Britain.
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Section 1. The powers of the state. 1. Introduction: the social history of the state ; 2. Power, things and the coming of the technostate
  • Part I. The state of things : connecting
  • Section 2. 'Man is made of the post office' : making the social technical. 3. The postal network becomes a system ; 4. Writing and postal technologies
  • Section 3. Postal economy and society : making the technical social. 5. Economising : the state and society ; 6. Postal society : learning the state
  • Section 4. Filing the Raj : political technologies of the imperial state. 7. Making centres ; 8. 'The faculty of arrangement'
  • Part II. The state of men : governing
  • Section 5. The work of the state. 9. The common knowledge of the state ; 10. The civil service statesman
  • Section 6. The grammars of governance. Pedagogies of the powerful. 11. Lineages of the liberal governor ; 12. Classics and the remaking of liberal education
  • Section 7. 'The fathers govern the nation' : the public school and the Oxbridge College. 13. Making mastery ; 14. The domus
  • Section 8. Conclusion: legacies of the liberal Leviathan.

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