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Book The Disciplinary Revolution  Calvinism and State Formation in Early Modern Europe  1550   1750

Download or read book The Disciplinary Revolution Calvinism and State Formation in Early Modern Europe 1550 1750 written by Philip Stephen Gorski and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Disciplinary Revolution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip S. Gorski
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2010-09-17
  • ISBN : 0226304868
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book The Disciplinary Revolution written by Philip S. Gorski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What explains the rapid growth of state power in early modern Europe? While most scholars have pointed to the impact of military or capitalist revolutions, Philip S. Gorski argues instead for the importance of a disciplinary revolution unleashed by the Reformation. By refining and diffusing a variety of disciplinary techniques and strategies, such as communal surveillance, control through incarceration, and bureaucratic office-holding, Calvin and his followers created an infrastructure of religious governance and social control that served as a model for the rest of Europe—and the world.

Book The Disciplinary Revolution

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  • Author : Philip S. Gorski
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2003-07
  • ISBN : 0226304841
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book The Disciplinary Revolution written by Philip S. Gorski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What explains the rapid growth of state power in early modern Europe? While most scholars have pointed to the impact of military or capitalist revolutions, Philip S. Gorski argues instead for the importance of a disciplinary revolution unleashed by the Reformation. By refining and diffusing a variety of disciplinary techniques and strategies, such as communal surveillance, control through incarceration, and bureaucratic office-holding, Calvin and his followers created an infrastructure of religious governance and social control that served as a model for the rest of Europe—and the world.

Book The Devotion of Collecting

Download or read book The Devotion of Collecting written by Forrest C. Strickland and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the seventeenth century, Dutch ministers built libraries and wrote books to fulfill their divine calling to guard the faith as it was entrusted to them and to encourage others in sound doctrine.

Book The Surveillance Studies Reader

Download or read book The Surveillance Studies Reader written by Hier, Sean and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines thoughts about self-surveillance, scrutiny of specific parts of society, sophisticated data gathering techniques and the ubiquity of CCTV. This book is suitable for students of sociology, politics, social policy, media and communications studies, social psychology and criminology.

Book The Invention of the Passport

Download or read book The Invention of the Passport written by John Torpey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to distinguish between those who may and may not enter or leave, states everywhere have developed extensive systems of identification, central to which is the passport. This innovative book argues that documents such as passports, internal passports and related mechanisms have been crucial in making distinctions between citizens and non-citizens. It examines how the concept of citizenship has been used to delineate rights and penalties regarding property, liberty, taxes and welfare. It focuses on the US and Western Europe, moving from revolutionary France to the Napoleonic era, the American Civil War, the British industrial revolution, pre-World War I Italy, the reign of Germany's Third Reich and beyond. This innovative study combines theory and empirical data in questioning how and why states have established the exclusive right to authorize and regulate the movement of people.

Book Empire and Power in the Reign of S  leyman

Download or read book Empire and Power in the Reign of S leyman written by Kaya Şahin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionist reading of Ottoman history during the reign of Süleyman the Magnificent (1520-66), examining the life of a bureaucrat, Celalzade Mustafa.

Book The Wall Around the West

Download or read book The Wall Around the West written by Peter Andreas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As economic and military walls have come down in the post-Cold War era, states have rapidly built new barriers to prevent a perceived invasion of undesirables. This work examines the practice, politics, and consequences of building these walls.

Book The Disciplinary Revolution

Download or read book The Disciplinary Revolution written by Philip Stephen Gorski and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Globalization  The nation state and international relations

Download or read book Globalization The nation state and international relations written by Roland Robertson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book T T Clark Companion to Reformation Theology

Download or read book T T Clark Companion to Reformation Theology written by David M Whitford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces the main theological topics of Reformation theology in a language that is clear and concise. Theology in the Reformation era can be complicated and contentious. This volume aims to cut through the theological jargon and explain what people believed and why. The book begins with an essay that explains to students how one can approach the study of sixteenth century theology. It includes a guide to major events, persons, doctrines, and movements.

Book The Invention of the Passport

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  • Author : John C. Torpey
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2018-07-26
  • ISBN : 1108591892
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book The Invention of the Passport written by John C. Torpey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first detailed history of the modern passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in the modern world. It explores the history of passport laws, the parliamentary debates about those laws, and the social responses to their implementation. The author argues that modern nation-states and the international state system have 'monopolized the 'legitimate means of movement',' rendering persons dependent on states' authority to move about - especially, though not exclusively, across international boundaries. This new edition reviews other scholarship, much of which was stimulated by the first edition, addressing the place of identification documents in contemporary life. It also updates the story of passport regulations from the publication of the first edition, which appeared just before the terrorist attacks of 9/11, to the present day.

Book Politics in the Midst of Terror

Download or read book Politics in the Midst of Terror written by Markus Österlund and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Discipline in the Reformation

Download or read book Social Discipline in the Reformation written by R. Po-chia Hsia and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historical Abstracts

Download or read book Historical Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Persecution and Pluralism

Download or read book Persecution and Pluralism written by Richard Bonney and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With one exception, the papers collected here were first presented at a conference sponsored by the British Academy held at Newbold College, Berkshire, in 1999. This volume provides a historical perspective to the emerging literature on pluralism. A range of experts examine how Calvinists in early modern France, England, Hungary and the Netherlands related to members of other faith communities and to society in general. The essays explore the importance of Calvinists' separateness and potent sense of identity. To what extent did this enable them to survive persecution? Did it at times actually induce repression? Where Calvinists held political power, why did they often turn from persecuted into persecutors? How did they relate to (Ana)Baptists, Quakers and Catholics, for example? The conventional wisdom that toleration (and, in consequence, pluralism) resulted from a waning in religious zeal is queried and alternative explanations considered. Finally, the concept of 'pluralism' itself is investigated.

Book Foundations of Public Law

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  • Author : Martin Loughlin
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2012-09-27
  • ISBN : 0191648183
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book Foundations of Public Law written by Martin Loughlin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of Public Law offers an account of the formation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character, explaining its particular modes of operation, and specifying its unique task. Building on the framework first outlined in The Idea of Public Law (OUP, 2003), the book conceives public law broadly as a type of law that comes into existence as a consequence of the secularization, rationalization and positivization of the medieval idea of fundamental law. Formed as a result of the changes that give birth to the modern state, public law establishes the authority and legitimacy of modern governmental ordering. Public law today is a universal phenomenon, but its origins are European. Part I of the book examines the conditions of its formation, showing how much the concept borrowed from the refined debates of medieval jurists. Part II then examines the nature of public law. Drawing on a line of juristic inquiry that developed from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries-extending from Bodin, Althusius, Lipsius, Grotius, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke and Pufendorf to the later works of Montesquieu, Rousseau, Kant, Fichte, Smith and Hegel-it presents an account of public law as a special type of political reason. The remaining three Parts unpack the core elements of this concept: state, constitution, and government. By taking this broad approach to the subject, Professor Loughlin shows how, rather than being viewed as a limitation on power, law is better conceived as a means by which public power is generated. And by explaining the way that these core elements of state, constitution, and government were shaped respectively by the technological, bourgeois, and disciplinary revolutions of the sixteenth century through to the nineteenth century, he reveals a concept of public law of considerable ambiguity, complexity and resilience.