UID:
almahu_9947415036002882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 305 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511523311 (ebook)
Content:
How did as small and backward a state as Prussia transform itself to compete successfully in war against states with far greater human and financial resources? Richard Gawthrop finds the answer to this perennial question in the creation of a unique political culture, in which service to the Prussian state took precedence over all other relationships and commitments. The campaign to inculcate the new ideology of disciplined energetic obedience to the state authority derived its moral vision and institutional forms from Lutheran Pietism, a German version of ascetic Protestantism strongly influenced by English Puritanism. This work describes systematically how the collaboration between Pietism and the Prussian state not only led to an increase in the latter's power but also laid the cultural basis for the subsequent political modernization of Germany.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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The German territorial state in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Reformed confessionalism and the reign of the Great Elector -- The nature of the pre-1713 Hohenzollern state -- Lutheran confessionalism -- Spenerian Pietism -- From Spener to Francke -- Halle Pietism I : ideology and indoctrination -- Halle Pietism II : growth and crisis -- Pietist-Hohenzollern collaboration -- The impact of Pietist pedagogy on the Prussian army and bureaucracy -- Civilian mobilization and economic development during the reign of Frederick William I.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521431835
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511523311
