Rethinking Leviathan: The Eighteenth-Century State in Britain and Germany (Studies of the German Historical Institute, London)

This book offers a new approach to the history of the modern state. It concentrates on the eighteenth century and on the cases of Britain and Germany. By using a comparative study of these two states, including Prussia, it deconstructs certain clichés about them and forces us to rethink how to study states in the early modern era.