Rebellious Prussians: Urban Political Culture under Frederick the Great and his Successors

by Florian Schui (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2013

  $107.73

  Challenges the accepted view that an oppressive Prussian state cast 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.