@article{888120,
      recid = {888120},
      author = {Joyce, Patrick,},
      title = {The state of freedom a social history of the British state  since 1800 / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge ;},
      pages = {xiii, 376 p.},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {"What is the state? The State of Freedom offers an  important new take on this classic question by exploring  what exactly the state did and how it worked. Patrick Joyce  asks us to re-examine the ordinary things of the British  state from dusty government files and post offices to  well-thumbed primers in ancient Greek and Latin and the  classrooms and dormitories of public schools and Oxbridge  colleges. This is also a history of the 'who' and the  'where' of the state, of the people who ran the state, the  government offices they sat in and the college halls they  dined in. Patrick Joyce argues that only by considering  these things, people and places can we really understand  the nature of the modern state. This is both a pioneering  new approach to political history in which social and  material factors are centre stage, and a highly original  history of modern Britain"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/888120},
}