Prussia's social and political structure, institutions, and values were in many ways formative for German history after 1871. After unification Prussia accounted for roughly two-thirds of the empire's size and population, but its weight within Germany was even greater because Prussia in large part molded the German identity and shaped Germany's image abroad. The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia examines this Prussian/German identity. It investigates the complex traditions of ideas, institutions, and ...
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Prussia's social and political structure, institutions, and values were in many ways formative for German history after 1871. After unification Prussia accounted for roughly two-thirds of the empire's size and population, but its weight within Germany was even greater because Prussia in large part molded the German identity and shaped Germany's image abroad. The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia examines this Prussian/German identity. It investigates the complex traditions of ideas, institutions, and social policy measures that lay at the root of the conservative Prussian welfare state. The examination of the ideas and policies of Prussian officials brings out a peculiar welfare state mentality of benevolence and patriarchal concern, pervaded by authoritarian streaks, that was unique in nineteenth-century Europe. In addition, the study analyzes the historiographical implications of the question of continuity and discontinuity in German history. The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia is of interest to scholars and students of German history as well as to students of governmental social policy and of the workings of a welfare state.
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Good in Very Good jacket. History. 8vo. Signed First Edition (1995. ) Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 298 pages. Signed presentation from author to American historian Eugen Weber, "May 6, 1995. For Eugen! With cordial regards-and many thanks, Hermann." The book is in good condition with wear to edges. Interior is tight with 3 pages of underlining in pencil by Eugen Weber. The dust jacket is in very good condition with some shelf wear and rubbing to edges. Blue white spine/black text. #031811.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; The pages are clean and unmarked. The cover has some minor bumping and rubbing. The dust jacket has some mild bumping.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall A beautiful clean crisp hardcover copy in very good condition, light shelfwear to edges of boards. DJ in very good condition with faint sunning to spine, now in protective mylar cover.