Bureaucracy, Aristocracy and Autocracy. The Prussian Experience 1660 - 1815
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xi, [1], 247, [2]pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Rosenberg looks at two fundamental themes of all modern history: the drift into political and administrative centralization, and the importance of the professional classes in modern society. The author explores the formation and structure of powerful bureaucratic government executives which arose in Prussia in the late seventeenth century, as well as discussing their character as a professional and political group. Some white stains on binding, tail of spine bumped. Minor staining and creasing on dj. Dust jacket and binding in good, interior in near fine condition. Number XXXIV of Harvard Historical Monographs. vg. Item #29386
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