The making of bourgeois Europe : absolutism, revolution, and the rise of capitalism in England, France, and Germany 9780860912910, 0860912914, 9780860915072, 0860915077
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English Pages 215 Year 1991
Table of contents :
Introduction
Marxist Theories of State Formation and the
Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
I. The Market-relations Model
II. Production Relations and Modes of Production
III. State Formation and Economic Development
2 France: From Absolutism to Bonapartism
I. The Rise of the Absolutist State in France
II. Across the Revolutionary Divide
III. The Post-revolutionary State
IV. The Second Empire and the Bonapartist State
3 Germany: Prussian Absolutism to Bismarck
I. The Rise of German Absolutism
II. The Consolidation of Hohenzollern Absolutism
III. The Frederickan State:
Professionalism and Agrarian Reform
IV. The Emergence of Bureaucratic Absolutism
V. German Liberalism and the Bureaucratic State
VI. Bismarck and Bourgeois Revolution from Above
4 English State Formation and the Rise of Capitalism
I. The Agrarian Capitalist State
II. Taxation and Office-holding in the English State
III. 'Old Corruption': Parasitism and Capitalism
IV. The Anderson-Nairn Thesis
V. Britain versus the Continent
