The state of freedom [electronic resource] : a social history of the British state since 1800 / Patrick Joyce.
Joyce, Patrick, 1945-
2013
DA44 .J69 2013
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Title
The state of freedom [electronic resource] : a social history of the British state since 1800 / Patrick Joyce.
Author
Joyce, Patrick, 1945-
ISBN
9781107694552
9781107007109
9781107333062 (electronic book)
Publication Details
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 376 p.
Call Number
DA44 .J69 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
941.08
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Machine generated contents note: Section 1. The Powers of the State
1. Introduction: The social history of the state
2. Power, things and the coming of the technostate
Part I. The State of Things : Connecting
Section 2. 'Man is Made of the Post Office' : Making the Social Technical
3. The postal network becomes a system
4. Writing and postal technologies
Section 3. Postal Economy and Society : Making the Technical Social
5. Economising : the state and society
6. Postal society : learning the state
Section 4. Filing the Raj : Political Technologies of the Imperial State
7. Making centres
8. 'The faculty of arrangement'
Part II. The State of Men : Governing
Section 5. The Work of the State
9. The common knowledge of the state
10. The civil service statesman
Section 6. The Grammars of Governance : Pedagogies of the Powerful
11. Lineages of the liberal governor
12. Classics and the remaking of liberal education
Section 7. 'The Fathers Govern the Nation' : the Public School and the Oxbridge College
13. Making mastery
14. The domus
Section 8. Conclusion: Legacies of the Liberal Leviathan.

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